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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! The first article in this issue was going to be about Ross Swimmer's recent audacious statements about plans to "rebuild" the trust system. This lame parrot of his boss, DOI Secretary Norton, and her boss, the President, would be laughable, if they all had not proven to be so successful at foisting off big lies to avoid ugly truths. The Trust System doesn't need a few tweaks from Madam Secretary or her "around the fort" Cherokee shuffler. Trustees must be paid in full for past and current land use, and all the damn melodrama can be shoved under the same carpet US officials continue to try to shove the truth. The first article, instead, is from Thomas Speer, asking all real humans to support the Lower Elwha S'Klallam as they try to save their ancestors resting place from desecration at the hands of an uncaring government. Read it - support the Lower Elwha S'Klallam in any way you can. We must stand up against the Fat Stealers. Their true god is greed. Wally World is doing what hundreds of years of environment did not... it is bringing down Casa Grande. Don't stand idle while yet another burial ground is bulldozed in the name of greed, mislabeled as "progress". Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Smith (*,*) wotanging@bellsouth.net P. O. Box 672168 (`-') gars@nanews.org Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. ===w=w=== http://www.nanews.org =================================== ANNUAL WINTER APPEALS Thursday, September 30, I sent out a notice to several individuals and groups that have supported winter needs. I am sharing that notice with all readers and asking you to please let this space help you help our Peoples. ---- Greetings This brief email is being sent as winter nears. I distribute a newsletter, Wotanging Ikche; and each year before winter sets in through the first of January I run names, addresses and needs of our elders and children throughout Indian Country. I don't draw any lines such as rez/urban. If there is a need, it's included. Send the contact name, address, phone, email, website (or as much as you can) Include the need (clothing, toys for kids, food, fuel money...) If there is a limited run (like now to two weeks before Christmas) include that. Send your information to: gars@speakeasy.net Please make the subject: WINTER HELP (all caps) Get this information to me as soon as you can. Spread the word. I will also copy whatever I run in Wotanging Ikche to some of the Mailing Lists I'm on, like RezLife, NDNAIM, Rez_LIfe, FrostysAmerIndian... Thanks, gary ---- =================================== The first response came from our Mohawk brother, Frosty Deere. It is an important need to those Mohawk who call Kahnawake home. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:52:51 -0400 From: "Frosty" Subj: Re: Winter Needs Rez & Urban http://www.tewateiahsatakaritat.com/pool/ Maybe you could include the above address, it explains everything. The Kahnawake Pool Project What happened to the Current pool? Its old, out dated, broken and cant be used in the middle of winter. How can people help? Well you can either buy a raffle ticket, donate money, or help find people to donate money for the pool. How can I help ? Well their are number of ways, one is just send a dollar to Indoor Pool Project, Box 821, Kahnawake Quebec J0L-1B0. Take a collection where you work. Get the company where you work to donate. Spread the word to as many people you know that can afford a dollar or more. Contacts: MacKenzie Whyte E-mail Address: Ronald Deere aka Frosty mackenziew@mck.ca E-mail Address(es): frosty@frostys.qc.ca Lou Ann Stacey frosty@kahonwes.com E-mail Address: louanns@mck.ca =================================== Date: Sunday, October 10, 2004 04:16 pm From: Lisa Mailing List: NDNAIM Greetings everyone, Happy Fall ! The cooler weather is setting in. Elections are next month, get out an vote. We still need to believe that our votes count. Two important votes next month, not only for the U.S. President but for all you Pine Ridge tribal members your presidential election. "VOTE" TOY DRIVE : Leonard wanted us to kick off the x-mas toy drive for Oglala. Grandmother Roselyn will be hosting this event again this year. "NEW" toys will be accepted for children of all ages. Clothing items that are always needed such as socks, stocking caps, gloves, shoes and underware (new) will be given to the Loneman School Nurse to be given on a "needed" basis. Roselyn says there are many children who come to school in the middle of a South Dakota winter wearing sandels. So the school nurse will be able to handle these items better as needed. Roselyn will also accept Wal-Mart and K-mart gift cards. These will help with specific items that she can purchase. Everything should be mailed directly to Roselyn's house. Roselyn Jumping Bull PO Box 207 Oglala, SD 57764 (605) 867-2231 (Note: FYI: Grandmother Roselyn's will be celebrating a birthday in Nov. I could be off on this a day but I think it is Nov 15, and she will be 74.) =================================== Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 01:25 pm From: Brigitte Thimiakis Subj: Winter Needs Greetings Gary, Honor Your Spirit, Protect The Children (HYS) is working on a new winter project for the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in MT. I will send you the request as soon as it is ready. I pray that once again many people will send help to all the places with children, elders and families in need of support. We do have a Christmas catalogue which is ready for people who wish to order First Nations art and crafts items. These items make very nice gifts for Christmas. They are authentic First Nations artwork and items like horsehair hatbands or belts can also be handed down from generation to generation. ALL the proceeds from the sales are used to help the elders and children in need. The founder of HYS is Northern Cheyenne and our contacts on the reservation are Northern Cheyenne also. It would be very much appreciated if you could regularly enclose the url to the HYS catalogue in your newsletter. HYS Arts and crafts catalogue http://www.geocities.com/honoryourspirit/fncrafts.html "Honor Your Spirit, Protect the Children" Manuel Redwoman, Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Arapaho http://www.geocities.com/honoryourspirit/home.html Thank you for your message and continued support. With kindest regards to you and Janet, Respectfully, Brigitte <>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o "Honor Your Spirit, Protect the Children" Manuel Redwoman, Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Arapaho http://www.geocities.com/honoryourspirit/home.html STOP CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT http://www.geocities.com/honoryourspirit/stopabuse.html Adult Children of Child Abuse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adult_children_of_child_abuse/ HYS Arts and crafts catalogue http://www.geocities.com/honoryourspirit/fncrafts.html <>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o<>o Dohiyi Ani Oginalii , , Gary Smith (*,*) wotanging@bellsouth.net 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 ---------- - Desecration - Salmon returns weak at Klamath of Lower Elwha Cemetery - Annie Mae Pictou Aquash Award - Swimmer tries - Reservation School to fix Indian Trust System looks to reap the Wind - Magazine Article sparks Firestorm - 100 Year Birthday Celebration - Indian Cultural Education - YELLOW BIRD: rare despite Law Talking Turkey about Holiday Food - Schweitzer names - Canadian First Nations American Indians to Posts Natural Gas to U.S. - Ownership dispute - 'Bed and breakfast' Jail System over Montana Riverbed - Violent Crime - Funds restored a way of life in Indian Country to United Tribes Technical College - Awaiting justice: - Indian Band seeks to regain 'A Brutal, Brutal Crime' its Birthright - Native Prisoner - Homes on their way to Reservation -- Woman dies in Tribal Jail - Casa Grande Ruins stand in Peril - History: Carlisle Indian School - Trujillo: - Rustywire: She was Seneca Indians are treated like Teenagers - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Tribes work together - Hawkdancer Poem: Thankful to produce Canned Seafood - Upcoming Events --------- "RE: Desecration of Lower Elwha Cemetery" --------- Date: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:46 PM From: Thomas R. Speer [trspeer@yahoo.com] Subj: Washington Native ancient village & cemetery desecration I am writing to you to ask for your help in alerting the public about a tragedy unfolding in Washington State. Please find enclosed news articles explaining how the state government has desecrated the largest ancient Native village and cemetery ever discovered in Washington State. This ancient village and cemetery belong to the Lower Elwha S'Klallam Tribe, one of three S'Klallam communities in Washington State. This week the Bush Administration decided to support the state in its ongoing desecration of the human remains. We are trying to contact the Honorable Frances Charles, Chair of Lower Elwha S'Klallam Tribe to offer support and ask what help she and the other Elwha leaders would like to have in their struggle for justice. I will keep you informed. Thank you, in advance, for publicizing this situation through Wotanging Ikche. Be well! Tom Speer TRSpeer@Yahoo.Com ----- Original Message ----- Date: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:07 PM From: "Thomas R. Speer" Subj: Feds back State's desecration of Lower Elwha cemetery State wins federal backing on Hood Canal Bridge project By Erik Lacitis Seattle Times staff reporter November 25, 2004 The federal government has sided with Washington state in its plans to build atop tribal remains at a Port Angeles site for building pontoons in the reconstruction of the Hood Canal Bridge. "I'm angry for trusting them. We're defending our ancestral remains. Once again, our land was taken," said Frances Charles, chairwoman of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, about Tuesday's preliminary determination by the Federal Highway Administration (FHA). In a letter, the agency said the state doesn't need to renegotiate an agreement it reached with the tribe in March about the scope of recovering archaeological remains. Doug MacDonald, the state's secretary of transportation, said the state wants to work with the tribe to reach a satisfactory solution, and the two parties will meet next week. He said the FHA letter "is a place where additional discussions can begin." The FHA is involved because the federal government is paying for most of the $276 million bridge reconstruction. The agency will make a final determination after hearing comments from the state and the tribe, as well as from a federal historic preservation advisory council. At issue is what a state Department of Transportation spokeswoman described as "a giant concrete bathtub," covering 9.6 acres, where 17 pontoons, each 300 feet long, would be built. Within weeks after work began in August 2003, workers began unearthing artifacts and remains, inadvertently discovering the largest prehistoric tribal village ever found in the state, with portions dating back more than 1,700 years. The tribe doesn't want any remains of its ancestors to be covered by the concrete pit. About one-third of the site would be excavated to a depth of 30 feet below ground level, a channel used to float finished pontoons out to the canal. Two-thirds of the project would be excavated to a depth of 2 to 7 feet, where the pontoons would be constructed. The shallower portion concerns the tribe, which wants the state to dig deeper - "maybe a couple of more feet" - to determine whether there are more remains to be removed, said Charles, the tribal chairwoman. The FHA letter cited a conclusion by Allyson Brooks, the state's historic-preservation officer, that "compaction" from concrete "will not adversely affect the burials beneath." MacDonald said the state was willing to use ground-penetrating radar and do boring samples to find what's below and then reach an agreement with the tribe about how to proceed. He said the letter didn't mean the state was going "to order up gravel trucks. ... This world doesn't work that way." When the state and tribe reached the March agreement, about two dozen burials had been discovered. Excavators now have found 264 intact human skeletons. In addition, more than 5,000 artifacts - from tools to pins - have been found. Concerning a possible resolution at next week's meeting, MacDonald said, "This project has a life of its own." Erik Lacitis: 206-464-2237 Copyright c. 2004 Seattle Times. --------- "RE: Swimmer tries to fix Indian Trust System" --------- Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004 11:46 PM From: MJLaBurt@aol.com Subj: Swimmer tries to fix Indian trust system Mailing List: NDNAIM http://www.newsok.com/article/1366818/?template=news/main Swimmer tries to fix Indian trust system By Judy Gibbs Robinson The Oklahoman Ross Swimmer prefers fixing the broken Indian trust system for the future rather than dwelling on past mismanagement. "That's where we are focusing our attention now, regardless of the lawsuit," the special trustee for American Indians said last week, referring to the 8-year-old Cobell v. Norton case. The multibillion dollar class-action lawsuit already has produced court orders requiring the government to reform the trust system and to give Indian trust beneficiaries an accurate, historical record of their accounts. As special trustee, Swimmer presides over both tasks, reporting directly to Interior Secretary Gayle Norton. In telephone interviews last week, the Tulsa resident and onetime Cherokee Nation principal chief reported steady progress in both areas. He said the Interior Department has located nearly 500 million records and is preparing them for the huge account-reckoning job. As a test, the government reconciled a few hundred accounts - including those of all five named plaintiffs in the Cobell litigation, Swimmer said. After comparing every transaction, the government found only one error of less than $70. "We identified money received but put into another person's account. It was a mistake that had been made by the agency," Swimmer said. The special trustee acknowledged that Cobell plaintiffs are as concerned about mismanagement of their trust land as they are about accounting irregularities. "That is a big issue, but it's not part of the lawsuit," Swimmer said. Swimmer said his goals include better communication with trust beneficiaries and proactive land management. He pointed out that of Oklahoma's 53,000 Indian account holders, 40 percent are owners of land that is not earning anything. "It's potentially land that has some income value but is not being leased for some reason or other," Swimmer said. "That's one of the things we're focusing on now: making contact with beneficiaries and seeing if we can generate revenue where it's not now." Copyright c. The Oklahoman | News 9, Produced by NewsOK.com. --------- "RE: Magazine Article sparks Firestorm" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="BELATED APOLOGY NOT ENOUGH" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.daily-times.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=577&num=15381 Magazine article sparks firestorm By Valarie Lee/The Daily Times November 22, 2004 DURANGO, Colo. - Dozens of Native American students met at a classroom on the Fort Lewis College campus Thursday. They were there to provide taped testimonies with the intention of showing it to college President Brad Bartel, The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Ballatine Foundation. The reason for the taping stems from an incident that began months ago. It began when Professor Andrew Gulliford, director of Center for Southwest Studies, submitted an article to a university publication in Washington that featured Fort Lewis College Native American students. In the article, which was titled "The Kokopelli Conundrum: Lesson Learned from Teaching Native American Students" appeared in the American Studies International, June/October 2004 double issue. The magazine was published by the George Washington University American Studies Department. In the article, several Fort Lewis College Native American students were quoted and the article featured many of the comments and stories they shared. The students said they never gave permission for Gulliford to use their comments - or share the traditional stories they told. It was only after the article was printed the students became aware of its content. Matt Nehmer, media relations, said the college was unaware of the article and no longer prints the magazine. Nehmer read an official statement on behalf of the university. "The publication ASI (American Studies International) is a very small publication of less than 1,000 and is a two-person operation. ASI, incidentally is the last one George Washington University will be publishing, which was decided well before this (current) issue was published. The ASI will be going to the University of Kansas to another American Studies program." When asked if the university or department knew of the event surrounding the concerns of Native American students, Nehmer said, "I did talk to the department and they did not publish the submission with the knowledge of any wrong doing," Nehmer. Repeated calls to Shelly McKenzie, one of the two staff members of the magazine, were not returned. The incident has caused even the college president to become involved. Speaking officially on behalf of President Brad Bartel, who is on vacation for the Thanksgiving holiday, Dave Eppich said the content in the article caused the college "real concern." "The president was informed of those concerns and started a procession with the Institutional Review Board," Eppich said. The board concluded the article "Kokopelli Conundrums" did not fit inside federal policy and fell out of guidelines, which protects students in regards to what they share in the classroom or with a professor. "It (the article) did not violate any federal policies or regulations concerning human subjects because the article did not meet the criteria under those guidelines. We also had a ruling internally that the student federal privacy act, called FERPA, was not violated," Eppich said. The president is in the process of calling each student mentioned in the article and is talking, or has talked to them about contents of the article. Some of the students are not at the college anymore and others mentioned in the article are current students, Eppich said. "The process is still continuing. On Dec. 1, there is a regularly scheduled Board of Trustees meeting, and when they go into an executive session, Dr. Bartel, the president, will be briefing the board of the process of this incident," Eppich added. "No action by the college has been determined yet, as the process is continuing." Eppich said Gulliford met with a group of students this week and a formal public apology was issued for the contents of the article. Gulliford said in a telephone message left at The Daily Times, "This whole episode has been disheartening and depressing. I never wanted to hurt anyone. As difficult as its been, I'm grateful to have received the support of many student and others." Yet, for some Native American students, Gulliford's apology is not good enough. "Dr. Gulliford has proven that he grossly misrepresented the Native American people by making generalizations and stereotypes in the article," said Bill Mendoza, a Oglala Sicangu Lakota and senior at Fort Lewis College. "Native American students here on campus feel violated by the trust they placed in him by sharing with him these stories that were featured in the article," said Mendoza, who added the he had no confidence in the professor for his insensitivity towards the Native American students. Despite the feelings among some Native American students, Gulliford had his supporters at the meeting on Thursday. "I see Andrew Gulliford as an ambassador and a bridge builder in our community. You can't be in a room with him without knowing how much he values and respects the Native American culture," said Paula Church, who participated in the video testimonial session. Two other people testified to Gulliford's character and love of Native American people and culture. Earlier in the week, the Fort Lewis College Student Senate, Faculty Senate, Institutional Review Board, and the Intercultural Committee met in an informative discussion on the issue. Valarie Lee: vlee@daily-times.com Copyright c. 2004 Farmington Daily Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. --------- "RE: Indian Cultural Education rare despite Law" --------- Date: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:59 AM From: MJLaBurt@aol.com Subj: Indian cultural education rare despite law Mailing List: NDNAIM http://www.greatfallstribune.com/~article=/20041128/NEWS01/411280302/1002 Indian cultural education rare despite law Great Falls school one of few complying with state constitution, recent court order By SARAH COOKE Associated Press Writer November 28, 2004 It started out as one bookshelf. Thirty years and hundreds of donations later, Longfellow Elementary's American Indian resource library has become a key tool for students to learn about tribal history and culture - a unique mandate for public schools under the Montana Constitution. Thousands of Native American books, videos, newspapers and magazines line the cement block walls of Longfellow's Indian library. Artifacts like chunky rock hammers and weathered leather dolls, along with miniature teepees made by students, sit atop rows of book shelves. "We're almost half museum and half library," said Principal Cal Gilbert, a Chippewa-Cree Indian. "I actually have parents transferring kids into our school just so they can have an education that's diverse." But Gilbert knows this school is an exception. Longfellow is one of just a handful of Montana schools fully complying with a state constitutional mandate unique in America: that all public school students - not just Indians - be taught about the cultural heritage of Indian tribes. The mandate became part of the Montana Constitution in 1972, when a constitutional convention updated it. But in the 32 years since then, critics say, very little has actually been done. The only mandatory Indian education classes for teachers, adopted in 1973, were abandoned before the end of that decade. In 1999, state lawmakers approved the Indian Education for All Act, intended to spell out requirements of the constitutional language. But a lack of money and training, combined with what some describe as years of apathy at the state level, essentially crippled the measure. Now, however, the state Supreme Court may force state lawmakers to act. Under an October decision that found Montana's public education funding system unconstitutional, the court also ruled Montana had failed to provide enough money for schools to meet requirements of the Indian education act. Indian lawmakers and education leaders rejoiced. Many had argued for decades the state wasn't fully complying with the constitutional language and watched in frustration as proposals to help pay for and apply the mandate fell by the wayside. "Nothing really was ever pushed through or implemented," said Norma Bixby, a state lawmaker from the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeast Montana. "Even though we recommended and recommended, it never happened, so I think the lawsuit is going to help get this constitutional language implemented," she said. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda McCulloch says the constitutional provision is the only one of its kind in the United States. It was meant, in part, to address years of intolerance. After herding most tribes onto reservations, the government sent many of their children to boarding schools to assimilate them into white society. Native dress and language were discouraged, and many students were stripped of their tribal names. Even when boarding schools began to close, Indian students learned little about themselves in public schools through most of the 20th century and often had to repress their Indian identities. "I don't remember learning anything about who I was as an Indian person," said Carol Juneau, a state lawmaker and member of the Hidatsa and Mandan tribes who lives on northwest Montana's Blackfeet reservation. "It probably wasn't until I was in college that I began to realize I had a right to learn about our history and begin that process," she said. That growing sense of self-determination was a driving factor behind the constitutional measure. It says the state "recognizes the distinct and unique cultural heritage of the American Indians and is committed in its educational goals to the preservation of their cultural integrity." Legislation sponsored by Juneau in 1999 was intended to implement it. The purpose was to make Indian students feel more valued and accepted, and to promote understanding of different cultures. By doing so, education officials hoped to close the growing achievement gap between Indian and non-Indian students and cut Indian dropout rates. Indians make up 11 percent of Montana's public school students. "When racism starts to be eliminated, you're going to start to see students performing better, and achievement is going to increase," McCulloch said. Leo Bird, a Blackfeet science teacher at Browning High School, has seen firsthand the difference Indian education can make. He started incorporating Blackfeet stargazing into his astronomy classes five years ago, taking students to historic sites on the surrounding reservation and teaching them how Indians used the stars to navigate. He also incorporates Greek and Roman teachings but said the Native lessons strike more of a chord. "(The students) have more to tie to than just memorization," Bird said. "They internalize it because the stories mean something to them." The classes are now among the school's most popular, with a waiting list. Bird, like many Indian educators, believes more money for teacher training and curriculum is the key. Many teachers try to follow the law, he said, but don't have the resources. "Probably 99 percent of our teaching force out there is non-native so they're not comfortable teaching what they don't know," Gilbert said. McCulloch has asked the governor's office for $500,000 to fund the act over the next two years, but the Montana Indian Education Association doesn't think that's enough. Bixby expects to ask for several million dollars. She also expects opposition. But she's also buoyed by a rare Democratic takeover of the state Senate and the election of Gov.-elect Brian Schweitzer, the first Democrat to hold the job in 16 years. Bixby thinks both help her chances of success. "It's been way too long in coming," she said of the funding. "If we had done this years ago, we probably wouldn't be in this situation today." Joan Andersen, a Republican legislator and retired teacher, said she feels the state has enough materials on American Indian heritage and culture. She voted against funding Indian education curriculum and professional development when it came before the 2003 Legislature and couldn't rule out doing so again this session. "I'm not so sure (the curriculum) is going to be used," Andersen said. "I think teachers are already using a lot of materials and ideas that are very well done and well received." But some say they need better reporting from districts to even determine what school administrators are doing to comply with the law. "There's always opposition when it comes to Indian issues, but with the education of our children and of all children in Montana, this really needs to happen," Bixby said. Copyright c. 2004 Great Falls Tribune. --------- "RE: Schweitzer names American Indians to Posts" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:59:11 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="MONTANA GOVERNOR-ELECT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.billingsgazette.com//build/state/40-na-posts.inc Schweitzer names American Indians to posts By JODI RAVE Missoulian November 23, 2004 Gov.-elect Brian Schweitzer has tapped three women from Montana's reservations to help lead his transition team. Anna Whiting-Sorrell will take on the role of deputy policy director; Nancy L. Warneke-Gaynor will become deputy office manager and coordinator of the transition tribal advisory committee; and Lena Belcourt will be deputy policy adviser. Whiting-Sorrell and Warneke-Gaynor are citizens of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. Belcourt is a citizen of the Chippewa-Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation. "We're thrilled to have these three women," said Sarah Elliott, communications director for Schweitzer. "It's great to have the perspective of our first Montanans at the table." The women are now part of a 14-member team. Their appointments have not been lost on tribal leaders. "This is the first time that I can remember, and I've been working with the Chippewa-Cree Tribe for 32 years that tribes have actually been involved in the transition teams," said Richard Sangrey, chief of staff for the Chippewa-Cree. "This here is blazing a new trail on behalf of tribal governments in working with the governor." Fred Matt, Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council chairman, echoed similar thoughts. "We are pleased with Gov.-elect Schweitzer's efforts to reach out to the American Indian communities of Montana." In a press release, Matt said he was confident that the Salish Kootenai women would be "outstanding representatives ... for all tribes across the state. We are confident that they will clearly express the needs and concerns of the first peoples of Montana." As deputy policy director, Whiting-Sorrell will assist in reviewing policy and initiatives. She recently returned to Montana from Washington, D.C., where she was the national director for Native American outreach for the John Kerry-John Edwards presidential campaign. Warneke-Gaynor will manage the overall offices of the transition team, and will coordinate the transition Tribal Advisory Committee, which is comprised of one representative from each of Montana's seven reservations, including the Little Shell Chippewa. She was director of the Tribal Business Assistance Center at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. Belcourt is the Chippewa-Cree Tribe's legislative analyst for the Rocky Boy Health Board. She's worked on state and national legislative agendas. All three women "play important parts in their tribal structures," Sangrey said. Copyright c. 2004 The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. --------- "RE: Ownership dispute over Montana Riverbed" --------- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:49:28 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="NORTHERN CHEYENNE REZ BORDER" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041129/APA/411290576 Ownership Dispute Over Montana Riverbed By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press Writer ASHLAND, Mont. November 29, 2004 For the Northern Cheyenne, it's about defending a special resource and the border of their reservation. For an energy development firm, it's about business. And for Montana's governor, it's about protecting the state's financial interests and assets, which she insists include the bed of the Tongue River. Ownership of the riverbed, along the eastern border of the tribal reservation in southeastern Montana, is at the heart of a legal dispute over leases the state sold to Fidelity Exploration & Production Co. for natural gas development. The big question: When the boundary of an Indian reservation is a river, who owns the riverbed? The tribe insists it owns at least half the width of the riverbed. The state believes it owns the entire riverbed and had the right to sell leases to Fidelity. "The ramifications are huge," said Eugene Little Coyote, the tribe's newly elected president. "It could affect everything - our culture, our sovereignty, our water quality. ... This is probably the most pressing tribal issue we have now." Denver-based Fidelity filed a lawsuit in July, asking a judge to determine who owns the riverbed. The company did so after its attorneys noticed an apparent conflict in ownership: While the state sold Fidelity the mineral leases in 2002, a federal order signed in 1900 that extended the reservation's eastern boundary to the river said the Northern Cheyenne had interest in at least half the width of the riverbed. Mike Caskey, Fidelity's executive vice president and chief operating officer, said the company sees itself as a "innocent third party" that got wrapped into a dispute over ownership. "We can't do anything until we know who owns (the land)," he said. Giving up the leases now isn't an option, Caskey said. Though officials are not sure what gas potential the leases hold, they do consider them valuable, and the company is supporting efforts by Gov. Judy Martz to intervene, he said. The governor's chief legal counsel, James Santoro, argued in court documents that the state needs to protect ownership rights to the riverbed and royalties and taxes from any natural gas development that occurs. The argument is based in part on the "equal footing doctrine," which Santoro said gives the state ownership of the bed of all navigable rivers in its boundaries, including the Tongue River. But some tribal members see the state's effort as an affront to their sovereignty and as having the potential to strain the relationship between the state and the tribe. "I am totally appalled," said Geri Small, the former Northern Cheyenne president. Fidelity named as defendants the federal government, including the Interior Department, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Dave Anderson, the assistant interior secretary for BIA. The company argues that while the tribe's claim dates to 1900, Montana has a "prior and superior ownership claim" as a state government since 1889. A call to attorney Patricia Miller with the Justice Department was referred to a department spokesman, who declined comment on pending litigation. The situation bothers Kenny Medicine Bull, who lives near the Tongue River. He worries about potential problems stemming from pollution. Drilling for coal-bed methane involves releasing groundwater to relieve pressure holding gas in coal seams. Some farmers and conservationists argue that water released is often salty or of poor quality and could harm crops or other vegetation. Development has been a concern for the tribe. Last year, it sued the federal government, claiming the Bureau of Land Management failed to fully study how coal-bed methane development in the region could affect the environment and way of life on the reservation. The Tongue River is a part of the Northern Cheyenne's cultural identity, according to Little Coyote. Growing up, he fished in the river, which flows behind his childhood home south of Ashland, and leapt from its grassy banks to swim. A sweat lodge stands along the water's edge so participants can bathe afterward. Plants used for tribal ceremonies grow near the river, he said. "Personally, having grown up along the river, it's tied to my identity. It's attached to our sovereignty as well," said Little Coyote. Copyright c. 2004 The Ledger - Lakeland, Florida. --------- "RE: Funds restored to United Tribes Technical College" --------- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:55:28 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="UTTC FUNDING RESTORED" http://www.indianz.com/News/2004/005497.asp Funds restored to United Tribes Technical College November 24, 2004 News from the United Tribes Technical College in North Dakota. Good news for United Tribes Technical College; Congress has restored federal funding for the current fiscal year. UTTC funding was included in the omnibus appropriation bill passed by Congress November 20. The spending bill provided $3.5 million for the college, which is $500,000 more than last year. "Our staff and students can continue our programs with confidence," said UTTC President David M. Gipp. "We have less to worry about now." The Congressional action reversed a recommendation by the Bush Administration for the third consecutive year that the college's funding be eliminated. The appropriation is for FY 2005, which began October 1, 2004. "Our Congressional delegation worked well to build bipartisan support," said Gipp. Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) helped restore the funds in the House. Sen. Byron Dorgan, (D-North Dakota) increased the appropriation to $3.5 million in the Senate. "We also received strong support from local and national tribal leaders," said Gipp. The National Tribal Advisory Budget Council supported UTTC's funding. Support also came from individual tribal leaders including Jim Gray, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation, Tex G. Hall, President of the National Congress of American Indians and chair of Three Affiliated Tribes, Geri Small, former chair of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and Wallace Coffey, chair and CEO of the Comanche Nation. "It's been four years since we've had any increase in funding through the BIA," said Gipp. "It means that we can continue expanding our campus and increasing enrollment to provide services for the growing numbers of tribal people seeking education and training." The omnibus bill also included approval of $53.9 million in funding for the nation's 22 tribally controlled colleges, including four in North Dakota: Sitting Bull College, Fort Berthold Community College, Turtle Mountain Community College, and Cankdeska Cikana Community College at Sprit Lake. UTTC does not receive funding under the tribal colleges act. Months of work by tribal leaders helped the Congress restore funding for numerous other programs in the BIA and IHS with budgets different than Bush administration recommendations. "This should be a message to the administration that these are the priorities in Indian Country," said Gipp. "There's a need for UTTC and the tribal colleges to prepare the workforce of the future." The House vote on the spending bill was 344 to 51 and the Senate voted 63 to 50. Copyright c. 2000-2004 Indianz.Com. --------- "RE: Indian Band seeks to regain its Birthright" --------- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:55:28 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WINNEMAN WINTU" http://www.pechanga.net/homepage.html http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/11597637p-12490981c.html Indian band seeks to regain its birthright By David Whitney - Bee Washington Bureau November 28, 2004 REDDING - The Winnemem Wintu call their village Kerekmet, and though the couple of dozen people who live there are as poor as the rundown collection of buildings and trailers suggests, they occupy hallowed ground. Ancient spirits are invoked in the smokehouse. Stories and songs passed down for dozens of centuries are taught to children with the hope that the Creator will make sure that their children, too, know them. There is grave doubt that that prayer will be fulfilled. This band is the guardian of the Wintu Indians' traditional ways, and as their attorney said, the Winnemem are desperately close to the end. "The odds against them are very high," said Jerry C. Straus of Washington, D.C., a prominent Indian law attorney who regards their needs as so grave that he represents them for free. "Nobody is really willing to go to bat for them," Straus said. Kerekmet is reached by passing through a gate along Dry Creek Road, over a brook, past curious horses and around a curve in the once graveled road until it dead-ends at a collection of old trailers. There's an old ranch house dating from the 1930s nearby. That's where the visitor is told to wait for Caleen Sisk-Franco, the band's 52-year-old spiritual leader. The former schoolteacher is late for an interview. Children are dispatched to find her. In the crowded kitchen, its floorboards exposed by disintegrating linoleum, two women chop onions and peppers for a salsa that will be served later with a dinner of beef, chicken and salmon. Karen, who is mentally disabled, sits eating cereal. Marjory, who is 78 and blind from birth, feels her way to the table to sit with her friend. Marjory is the daughter of Florence Jones, the Winnemem's former spiritual leader, who built the farmhouse that serves as the band's communal dining center and gathering spot. When Florence Jones died at age 95 a year ago, the New York Times carried her obituary. "Ms. Jones was revered among many tribes for her healing abilities using native plants and her strict adherence to traditional ways," the obituary read. Now it is up to Sisk-Franco to carry on the traditions. Under the ways of the traditional Winnemem, she takes her instructions directly from the Creator, said her husband, Mark Franco. This day, she has been delayed by problems far removed from the spiritual world. A propane tank went dry in one of the trailers, and she is on her hands and knees trying to hook up a refill and light the pilot. When she finally shows up, dinner is well on its way. Cars and trucks carrying distant band members are arriving for the evening gathering. Sisk-Franco settles into a chair at the kitchen table and begins to explain how things got so bad. Somehow, in the band's recent past, the Interior Department concluded her people were not a tribe, she said. How they reached that conclusion is unclear. One day the band was recognized as an Indian tribe, and its members received federal health, housing and education benefits. She graduated from California State University, Chico, because of education aid to Indians, and worked with her husband in recruiting Indians to the campus. And then benefits for the Winnemem disappeared. They want this recognition restored, the mistakes corrected, the wrongs righted. What's made the situation so desperate for the Winnemem is the proposal to raise the height of nearby Shasta Dam. A bigger Shasta Lake will flood more of their sacred lands and herbal gathering grounds, their last grip on the old ways they celebrate. When legislation authorizing the dam was approved by Congress in 1937, it contained a promise to acquire property for the Winnemem to replace the 4,480 acres of tribal and allotment lands that would be inundated. That promise was never fulfilled, Sisk-Franco said. As Shasta Lake rose, 183 Winnemem graves were moved to a cemetery on higher ground. Sisk-Franco believes that cemetery is Indian country, which alone should qualify the band for tribal recognition. But that is being hindered by apathy, compounded by a persistent case of mistaken identity. Every time the Winnemem or their attorneys talk to the Interior Department about restoring their tribal recognition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs answers with a letter saying the tribe's petition for tribal restoration is still pending. The petition, however, was filed by a different Wintu band, calling itself the Wintu of Northern California. They're related, but not the same. "We are split from the Winnemem, but Caleen is still spiritual leader for a lot of our people," said Carol Martin, who sits on the Wintu of Northern California's tribal council. "But we are not together." When Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Interior Secretary Gale Norton about the Winnemem in an October letter, the Bureau of Indian Affairs responded on Nov. 1 with the same old refrain, linking them yet again with the Wintu of Northern California. The Winnemem don't want to petition for tribal recognition, a process that for the Wintu of Northern California began in 1993 and still is a long way from finished. They want the Interior Department to correct a long-ago mistake, give them what they should have gotten before Shasta Lake began to rise, and return to them their tribal recognition. That would make them eligible for $160,000 to begin putting back together their struggling tribe. Barring that, the Winnemem have appealed to Congress to order their tribal restoration. Rep. Wally Herger, R-Marysville, whose district includes the Redding area, has said he believes the Winnemem should exhaust their administrative remedies through the Bureau of Indian Affairs before expecting any congressional help. Feinstein says she will hold up any Indian legislation, including the Winnemem effort, until Congress acts on what is for her a higher priority - her measure aimed at unraveling a deal that gave the small Lytton Band of Pomo Indians the right to develop a huge casino at San Pablo. To the Winnemem, the process denies them the voice they are entitled to on a matter that could spell the death of their traditional ways. "They're crippling us even before we get started, and then they are taking everything we have left," Sisk-Franco said. The Bee's David Whitney can be reached at (202) 383-0004 or dwhitney@mcclatchydc.com. Copyright c. 2004 Sacramento Bee. --------- "RE: Homes on their way to Reservation" --------- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:42:08 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ROSEBUD FAMILIES IN NEW HOMES" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/24/news/local/news13.txt Homes on their way to reservation By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer November 24, 2004 Four American Indian families will celebrate the holidays in new homes on Rosebud Indian Reservation. On Nov. 22, in a coordinated effort between Ellsworth Air Force Base and Walking Shield American Indian Society, four excess military housing units were transported from Ellsworth Air Force Base to Rosebud Indian Reservation. Depending on weather conditions, the houses may get to the reservation today, according to Amos Prue, chief executive officer at Sincangu Wicoti Awanyankape Corporation, Rosebud's housing authority. "They were supposed to be here today, but they're caught in a snowstorm somewhere," Prue said. "They can't move the houses at night." Karen Hoffman, assistant realty officer at Ellworth Air Force Base, said the base was contacted in mid-October about sending houses to Rosebud. "This is the first time excess houses have been donated to a reservation by Ellsworth," Hoffman said. She said the three-bedroom homes, built in 1961, were well-maintained and offered more than 1,000 square feet of living space. "Walking Shield provided the transportation, foundations and set up the utilities," Hoffman said. "The families should be moved in by Dec. 15." According to a news release, the housing project is part of Project Care that was created by Walking Shield American Indian Society to help provide decent, safe and sanitary housing on reservations. SWA Corporation has received about 120 houses from Walking Shield in the past. With more than 21,000 people living on the reservation home, half of them are younger than age 21, housing is limited with a wait of two to three years before applications are considered. For rental housing, 500 applicants are waiting for 50 homes that are being repaired, and 129 applicants are seeking homeownership on three houses. And 250 applicants are waiting for private home assistance for repairs and rehabilitation of their own homes. "Just going off of our waiting list, this isn't everyone who needs housing," Prue said. The new homes will be delivered to the families of Norman and Wayne Black Spotted Horse, Frantz Joe Stone, Alfred Bone Shirt and Earl Siers. "It helps, but it's never enough," Prue said. For Alfred Bone Shirt's family, it's an opportunity to breathe a little easier. Bone Shirt, 50, who lives five miles west of St. Francis, said construction crews dug the foundation of his new home to prepare for the house to be set up soon. He said construction workers had told him it would take anywhere from two weeks to 30 days to get the house ready for the six-member family. "I have to commend President Charlie Colombe for doing his job," Bone Shirt said, "not only to thank him in allowing us a house not only to my family but these other families as well." Seven years ago, the Bone Shirt family moved into a reconditioned 1974- model trailer home. Within a year, black mold began spreading across the family's bathroom floor, walls and window. "The carpets were taken out and the floors, walls and sinks had mold growing on them," Bone Shirt said. Moisture fed the mold and rotted the floors in the kitchen, living room and bathroom. When a group of volunteers arrived to help the Bone Shirts, the project's carpenter fell through the floor. Bone Shirt, his wife, Duana, and their grandchildren have suffered respiratory problems. It is a situation that Bone Shirt has lived with because he knows many Rosebud families have worse conditions. "When you're homeless or basically reduced to living in cluster housing, you accept anything they offer," he said. Contact Jomay Steen at 394-8418 or jomay.steen@rapidcityjournal.com Copyright c. 2004 The Rapid City Journal. --------- "RE: Casa Grande Ruins stand in Peril" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="WALLY WORLD/DEVELOPMENT" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1122ruelas22.html Casa Grande Ruins stand in peril Development Threatens Monument November 22, 2004 COOLIDGE - Nobody predicted the Casa Grande Ruins could go down like this, that after hundreds of years of surviving the elements, standing as testament to a civilization that thrived in the desert more than 700 years ago, the adobe walls could crumble because of a Wal-Mart across the street. But there they were, holes about the size of a half-dollar burrowed underneath the Great House, the signature structure at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 50 miles south of Phoenix. Squirrels are digging their way under the four-story building, threatening to undermine the structure's foundation. Squirrels have always been a part of the landscape here. But their numbers were controlled by coyotes that now stay away. "Look around us," said Paige Baker, who became superintendent of the monument seven months ago. "We're completely encircled by development, and it took away the natural predators." advertisement The squirrels aren't able to claw into the hardened caliche walls of the Great House. But by burrowing through the dirt under the walls, they create pockets for water to pool. That can dissolve the clay walls. It's Baker's job to figure out what to do to save the ruins of the sophisticated Hohokam society that lived here. He's bringing in experts to survey the worsening situation. He refused to hint at any methods but said a plan would be in place within two months. There were at least three holes around the Great House and several more around other structures. The dirt on the grounds, particularly by the large oval mound that archeologists believe served as some sort of ball court, looks like a honeycomb. A footstep crumbles the earth. As we talked, a visitor asked about the holes that are leaving the ground pockmarked. When told they're caused by squirrels, he mentioned he spotted a dead one by the block of structures known as Compound A. "Good," Baker said flatly. Modern development came slowly to the Casa Grande Ruins. For years, the closest business was the Ruins Village Store, a bar that became a drive- through liquor outlet. Coolidge annexed land that included the monument in 1983, setting the stage for Wal-Mart's entrance in 1999. That's when the city approved construction of a 107,000-square-foot store, with its massive, RV-friendly parking lot, right across the street from the monument. A Blockbuster Video followed, as did a Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Safeway expanded a small grocery store south of the ruins and turned it into a strip mall. Park employees give directions like this to the monument: "Go just past the Wal-Mart and turn right at Blockbuster." Officials with the Casa Grande park saw problems with the Wal-Mart- sparked development across the street. But they did not foresee a squirrel infestation. "I don't think anyone realized what the natural resource implications would be," said Carol West, the chief ranger. The development turned "these cute little rodent squirrels" into pests, she said. Wal-Mart, the self-proclaimed low-price leader, is also the leader of unintended consequences. It has blinded consumers to the perils of its cost-cutting strategy, which includes pressure to move manufacturing jobs to China to cut costs. Wal-Mart is the leading employer in Arizona. But its wages are such that it is also the company with the most employees using the state's health care system for their kids. It has undercut the foundations of society. Both this one and one from several hundred years ago. The Casa Grande Ruins are thought to have been built by Hohokams around 1400. In his notes from 1694, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, the Spanish explorer, wrote of the castle-like structure surrounded by smaller buildings and a ball court. Kino said there were similar structures in the region, but this is the only one still standing. In the late 1800s, settlers of the land looted the buildings of wooden beams and carved graffiti in its walls. Those reports prompted the federal government to pass the Antiquities Act and preserve Casa Grande in 1906. The signature ruin, the Great House, got a canopy to protect it from rain in 1932. But there is no protection from this current problem. "We have no real control over development around the park," Baker said. What the park's administrators can do is preach the importance of preserving the ruins, not just as a draw for 130,000 visitors each year, but also as "an educational opportunity to see what cultures were like and hopefully learn from those cultures." As one of only two Native American park superintendents in the system - the other being his brother, who runs Mount Rushmore - Baker is especially attuned to this aspect. He is hoping to collect oral history from tribal elders to flesh out the story of the Hohokam people, who had disappeared from this area by the time Kino arrived to discover their ruins. "If we don't watch and care for the environment," Baker said, "then we're going to go the same way that cultures previously have gone." There are lessons to be drawn from the previous peoples who lived here. But furthering that study involves saving these ruins from the current culture, which is also in danger of eroding from underneath. Luckily, if Baker chooses to study this current decay, he has a living laboratory across the street. Reach Ruelas at richard.ruelas@arizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-8473. Copyright c. 2004, azcentral.com. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Trujillo: Indians are treated like Teenagers" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ENERGY INDUSTRY" http://www.gallupindependent.com/112204trujillo.html Trujillo: Indians are treated like teenagers By Stan Bindell For The Independent November 22, 2004 PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Arvin Trujillo, executive director of the Navajo Nation's Natural Resources Division, said tribes need to know what they're getting into if they go into the energy business. Don't get Trujillo wrong, he thinks it's a good idea. But he feels that when Native Americans succeed some non-Native Americans respond by asking how they can get a piece of the pot. Trujillo said this can be seen when Native Americans became active in the gambling business and it can also be seen as they assert their water rights. "People start asking: Heaven forbid, do we have to pay Native Americans (for water)?" he said. Trujillo said just as some don't like tribes having gambling or water rights that they also won't like them owning energy companies. "They'll ask: Do we want tribes to have that influence?" he asked. Trujillo said the BIA has grown to the point it now treats Native Americans as if they are teenagers. But Trujillo sees the energy business as a wonderful opportunity for Native Americans. He is for the idea, but he wants tribes to know they can face a lashback. Trujillo said many tribal people prefer to use cash instead of credit because new economic concepts sometimes land Native Americans in debt. "They can overextend as I see with my own teenagers," he joked. Charles Vaughn, a member of the Hualapai Tribe, echoed Trujillo's comments. "They want us to learn capitalism, but then some non-Indian says: You've learned it too well," he said. Vaughn criticized a political advertisement by Congressman Rick Renzi for making fun of candidate Paul Babbitt's idea to invest millions into windmills. "It's sad he (Renzi) couldn't be truthful about renewable energy needs," Vaughn said. Derrick Watchman, a spokesman for Bank One, said most tribes don't know how to buy bonds in order to come up with the funding it takes to get an energy company going. But, he emphasized, as tribes move from a casino/hotel economy to an energy based economy that Wall Street will show more interest in backing tribal endeavors. Watchman, who is Navajo, said no one bank will back a project if it costs more than $100 million. This means that a diversity of funding is needed for such an energy project. Watchman, who also sits on the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority governing board, said that if the federal government guarantees tribal loans that they will be a lot easier to come by. "Then you can get the loans overnight," he said. Watchman noted that in order to obtain loans that tribes have to wave their tribal sovereignty in terms of allowing themselves to be sued. Federal law currently precludes tribes from being sued unless they agree to be sued. He said no lender will agree to loan out large amounts of money without having the power to sue if there is a problem. He added that jurisdictional problems can also make a difference on whether or not large loans are approved. The governor's tribal energy group will meet again to review the progress, grade themselves and come up with more plans. Copyright c. 2004 the Gallup Independent. --------- "RE: Tribes work together to produce Canned Seafood" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="TRIBAL CANNERY" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/179055 Peninsula tribes work together to produce canned seafood November 22, 20042004 by BRENDA HANRAHAN LAPUSH - When the Quileute tribe decided to begin selling canned salmon, it turned to the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe for help. Quileute Tribal Chairman Russ Woodruff said the tribal council had been talking about canning salmon for some time, but faced the problem of not having a cannery. "We really didn't want to build an expensive cannery, and the Elwha Fish Co. already has the canning equipment," Woodruff said. "There is no sense in two tribes having the same thing, so we agreed to help each other." Quileute Executive Director Walter Jackson said the tribe benefits from having a product they can sell at a variety of outlets, and the Elwha tribe receives a financial boost for its canning services. "We have been working with all of the tribes to promote all of our products together," Jackson said. "Tribes need to work together more so everyone benefits." Quileute label The result of the verbal agreement between the tribes is canned wild king salmon, coho salmon and smoked coho and king salmon under the Quileute Seafoods label, Woodruff said. The label, which features the Quileute Seafoods logo and photographs of James Island off First Beach and Second Beach, was created by Port Angeles graphic artist Laurel Black. Copyright c. 2004 Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA. Horvitz Newspapers, Inc. --------- "RE: Salmon returns weak at Klamath" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="DISEASED CHINOOK" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article=/20041122/STATE/411220331/1042 Researchers find more disease among river's young Chinook BY JEFF BARNARD The Associated Press November 22, 2004 HORNBROOK, Calif. - Walking the banks of Bogus Creek, state fisheries biologist Mark Hampton stopped and pointed to a black-and-white shape in the shallow water - a battered female chinook salmon lying on its side and thrusting its tail into the gravel to dig a nest for its eggs. This fall, the returns of chinook salmon to Bogus Creek and the Shasta, Scott and Salmon rivers - Northern California tributaries to the Klamath River - have been disappointing. Estimates based on fish and carcass counts are showing less than 25 percent of last year's returns and less than 10 percent of the strong returns of 2000. The reasons are difficult to nail down, but the more researchers look, the more disease they are finding in young chinook migrating down the Klamath River. The fish that survive to reach the ocean are finding less food than they did a few years ago. Meanwhile, an El Nino building in the South Pacific could reduce the mountain snowpack that feeds the Klamath River and make food even more scarce for salmon in the ocean. The disease and ocean conditions come on top of the continuing struggle to balance scarce water between threatened coho salmon and farms on a federal irrigation projected along the Oregon-California border. A drought in 2001 prompted the federal government to shut off water to most farms on the Klamath Reclamation Project. The health of the Klamath's chinook salmon also has widespread effects because when runs are down, harvests in the ocean off Southern Oregon and Northern California are cut back to allow more to return to the river to spawn. Declines blamed on habitat loss, poor water quality and overfishing prompted Congress to initiate a rebuilding effort in 1986, which led to increased research that has uncovered an alarming rate of disease. Understanding the role that diseases play in salmon returns is becoming increasingly important in the rebuilding effort, said Nick Hetrick, fisheries program leader for Fish and Wildlife in Arcata, Calif. That's where Scott Foott comes in. He is a fish pathologist at the agency's California-Nevada Fish Health Center who has been studying fish diseases in the Klamath Basin. Samples taken from traps and seining indicate that as many as 80 percent of young Klamath chinook are infested with the parasite parvicapsula minibicornis by the time they reach the ocean. It doesn't appear to be fatal, but it weakens fish by making their kidneys less efficient at filtering their blood, Foott said. Another parasite, Ceratomyxa shasta, infests the intestines. Between 30 percent and 40 percent of young chinook swimming down the Klamath get infested with it, and nearly all of them die. Biologists don't know how many salmon are spawned in the wild in the Klamath Basin, so they cannot estimate how many are being killed by disease. Overall, though, the chances of salmon surviving from egg to spawning adult generally are tiny. The numbers of chinook smolts released from Iron Gate Hatchery on the Klamath River that survived to return to the hatchery averaged less than 1 percent from 1979 to 1999, said Hampton, a biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game. "This disease problem hits much harder in some years than other years," he said. "We're just now finding out what it's doing." The fish do not appear to become infested with C shasta in their home tributaries, Foott said. It all appears to happen after they enter the Klamath. The rate of infestation appears to be related to the prevalence of a tiny worm, found in fine sand at the bottom of river pools and in algae that grows on rocks, that serves as an intermediate host for the parasite. "The general thought is, if you have high concentrations of (the worm) in the upper river ... you are creating this condition of a higher rate of infection than you normally have," Foott said. "It could be a cyclic phenomenon. It could be due to a lack of flushing flows in winter. These are just open questions right now. "A river is a very dynamic creature. When you turn it into a drainage canal, it doesn't operate like it used to." Diseases could become another issue in the debate about water allocations in the basin. Right now, the timing and amount of flows down the Klamath River are dictated by the needs of coho salmon under the Endangered Species Act. That could change if the Yurok Tribe wins a lawsuit against the Bureau of Reclamation demanding more water for chinook and other fish to fulfill tribal trust responsibilities. Also, PacifiCorp is seeking a new license to operate dams in the basin. Beyond anyone's control are changing conditions in the ocean based on climate drivers such as El Nino in the South Pacific and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in the North Pacific. Because an El Nino is building, the Northwest might see a warmer winter and less precipitation, producing less snowpack in the mountains to feed salmon streams. The ocean is likely to be warmer close to shore off Oregon California and Washington, making for less upwelling. Copyright c. 2004 Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon. --------- "RE: Annie Mae Pictou Aquash Award" --------- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:55:28 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ANNIE MAE PICTOU AQUASH AWARD" http://www.native-voice.com/fullstory.cfm?ID=693 Mourning Those Who Have Passed, Honoring Lives: Annie Mae Pictou Aquash Award By Winona LaDuke Special to The Native Voice Amidst songs, celebration and tears, the third Annie Mae Pictou Aquash Award ceremony was held in New York, on May 13th, 2004. Three hundred Indigenous delegates and their friends crowded into a reception area across from the United Nations to honor Native women - those in the spirit world, those recognized specifically by the award, and those yet to come. The event was sponsored by the Indigenous Women's Network, in coordination with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples and the Flying Eagle Woman Fund's celebration in honor of Indigenous Women; and the award ceremony, honoring both the late Annie Mae Pictou Aquash and this year's recipients, featured Inuit singing, Hawaiian chanting, traditional social drum and honor songs, and Maori haka. The three award recipients included Mililani Trask, a leader in the Native Hawaiian movement and representative of the Permanent forum on Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations; Katrina Cantrell, a Shoshone Native health advocate who operates a women's clinic in northern California; and Noeli Pocaterra, Second Vice President of the National Assembly Bolivarian Republic of Venuzuela and a Wayuu organizer. The Award ceremony was also marked by the presence and closing speech of Denise and Debbie Maloney Pictou, daughters of the late Annie Mae Pictou Aquash. The ceremony opened with Mohawk midwife and past Annie Mae Award recipient Katsi Cook singing a women's honor song, followed by a traditional song in Native Saami. As Mililani Trask received her award in recognition of her extensive work with Indigenous women, the Native Hawaiian delegation broke into a series of chants and songs, honoring her as well as all of those assembled. Trask's acceptance speech was sprinkled with anecdotes and fond memories of how she first began to work with Indigenous women from the mainland; her stories highlighted the links between Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders' work to de-colonize their territories and Native American struggles for the same. Trask has worked tirelessly in the international arena on behalf of Pacific Islanders, many of whose nations have recently been colonized. The presence of the Native Hawaiian delegation, in full force during this ceremony, and comprised of many new Hawaiian organizers who are now able to present formal work at the United Nations, served as a powerful and touching testament to Mililani's connection to her community and her great talent at mentoring blossoming leaders. Katrina Cantrell was acknowledged for her continuing work to provide reproductive rights and health services to Indigenous women, including advocating for the right of freedom of choice. She directs Women's Health Specialists, a feminist women's health clinic in northern California that provides a broad array of services to Native women. Within a period of five years, this clinic was the site of four arson fires. As Cantrell describes her work, "self-determination is a guiding principal of the Feminist Women's Health Center, we have a way of honoring women which is consistent with my tribal teachings." Katrina also serves on the board of both the Native Women's Health Education Resource Center and the National Women's Health Network. During her acceptance speech, Cantrell emphasized that it is imperative to have an environment in which women can achieve their reproductive goals free from coercion, fear or prejudice. "I accept the award for all the women in my life," she stated, "who have given me strength, admonition and wisdom as needed. I am grateful for the wisdom of feminist activists that encouraged me to expand the vision of women's health to include abortion." "I am a Native Wayuu, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother," began Noelli Pocaterra as she took her place at the microphone. Acknowledging Indigenous women who lost their lives defending the rights of Indigenous peoples, including Ingrid Washinawatok and Lahe'ena'gay, Pocaterra recognized the strong history of Native women's resistance, and urged Native women to continue this work: "Sisters, we cannot make a mistake, we cannot be seduced and overwhelmed by this model of life, by this society that wants to globalize us. We cannot abandon our native spaces, our wombs, our land, the place of our sacred cemeteries as well as our ancestral traditions..." Pocaterra called on Indigenous peoples everywhere to strengthen work to make October l2 an annual day of resistance, noting that while the struggle for Native rights in Venezuela continues, "we cannot remain with the celebration of a day of Indigenous resistance and then sell our forests, leave our territories in the hands of compa nies that exploit gold and petroleum..." As a strong advocate for women's, children's, and Indigenous rights who has influenced many positive policy changes in her home country, Noeli's words struck a deep chord with each person in the hall. The Indigenous Women's Network (IWN) established the Annie Mae Award in 1997 as a way to honor the slain activist and the many struggles that she represented. The organization has given this award on three separate occasions, with past recipients including Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife and environmental activist; Cecilia Rodriguez, Chicana activist and representative of the National Commission for Democracy in Mexico; and the late Nilak Butler, an Inuit activist who was a friend of Annie Mae Aquash. In the face of ongoing investigations into Aquash's murder thirty years ago on Pine Ridge Reservation, the organizers wanted to ensure that the award was given in honor of her life. This spring, Arlo Looking Horse was convicted in the murder of Annie Mae, and John Graham faces extradition from Canada. The murder case also raises questions as to the integrity of past leaders of the American Indian Movement, some of whom may be implicated in the court proceedings. IWN as an organization supports the conviction of those involved in the murder of Annie Mae, and points to the present Patriot Act as a re- -enactment of the time of the COINTELPRO era, during which the FBI and other agencies waged a covert war on the American Indian Movement, creating a climate of fear and resulting in the deaths of many people, including Annie Mae. The late Nilak Butler once remembered, "Annie Mae did not seek self glory but worked quietly doing anything that was needed to matter how small or great the task before her. She never complained when times were hard. Rather, she gave of herself and her humor and wisdom took the sharp edges off of difficult times. Her gifts, her strength, her beauty live on today through many people." At this year's ceremony, John Trudell, a Santee poet and Annie Mae's good friend, likened Annie Mae's work and death with that of Ingrid Washinawatok, declaring that the two women "exemplified the heart, strength, spirit and coherency of our cultural movement... It is important that the truth be seen and heard regarding the murders of Annie Mae and Ingrid. Wherever these truths may lead there is a lesson to be learned. And this lesson has something to do with the soul of our movements and the spirit of our culture. It has to do with the integrity of our future, the clarity of coming generations and the well-being of our people. We need to know what happened so we can learn from it..." In her statement on behalf of the family, Denise Mahoney Pictou said, "In the last 36 hours of our mothers' life she suffered indignities no human being should ever have to suffer. The brutal kidnapping, interrogation, rape and murder or our mother had sat unresolved for an incredible 28 years. The silence and secrecy that surrounded our mother's death for 25 years left a void and a sense of loss of ownership for her family and nation. We have waited in silent mourning for 27 years for justice. We are entering a time of discovery as her murderers are brought to justice. There will be many questions and difficult times. We ask that you remember Anna Mae and all that she stood for and represented. A strong women with a voice that was silenced. Anna Mae Pictou Aquash did not die at the hands of some Government conspiracy. The only conspiracy that existed is that which was developed to protect her murderers.For Anna Mae's family and Nation this award represents the support that we have f rom our sisters in that we are not alone in our quest for justice and truth." Copyright c. 2003 Native Voice Media, all rights reserved. --------- "RE: Reservation School looks to reap the Wind" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:48:24 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE" http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/22/news/local/top/news01.txt Reservation school looks to reap the wind By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer November 22, 2004 KYLE - Oglala Lakota College has collected its first month's worth of data in its year-long wind-energy study on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. According to Jim Taulman, an OLC conservation biology instructor, the college will collect data on wind speed and direction using its $10,000 anemometer tower for a year. The information will help school officials evaluate the potential of generating its own electricity with a wind turbine at the Piya Wiconi center, seven miles southwest of Kyle. "We'll get a good idea of what the potential is for wind energy," Taulman said. Financed through the college, the tower is part of plan that would allow the college to generate its own renewable power within the next two to three years, he said. "The whole reservation is just an ideal place for energy," he said. With help from Jim Brignolo of the Foundation for the American Indian, an organization involved in promoting wind energy on reservations, the college has started recording wind speeds and directions. The averages will help officials determine whether a turbine is feasible. "That's the next step after collecting wind data," Taulman said. He said Brignolo contracted Second Wind to assemble and erect the 50- meter, or 165-foot-tall tower, on Sept. 10. The anemometers, or wind recording devices, were placed at elevations of 10-, 30- and 50-meters. The base, a galvanized plate, was bolted together and driven into the ground. The weight of the tower keeps the base in place. The tower was then anchored with guy wires attached to a series of six ring collars that are snugly attached to the pole. Six-foot-long anchor screws were driven into the ground, and the guy wires were secured to the screws to keep the tower from toppling during high winds. Unlike the Oglala Sioux Tribe's proposed $300 million wind farm with Invenergy of Chicago, the college will build its own wind turbine with money from private donations and grants, Taulman said. The time frame for all of this is about a year for technicians to accumulate the weather data and then two years to gather resources to buy the wind turbine, he said. "The funding institutions want to see the actual data. They don't want to put money into a project that doesn't produce energy," Taulman said. He said that he would use the tower as an example of renewable resources for energy. This would also include getting the best wind turbine to fit the job. "There are all sorts of turbines - those that provide power for hundreds of homes and smaller versions that would power the campus," Taulman said. He said an average home uses 30 kilowatt-hours in a day or 1,000 kilowatt-hours each month. Depending upon the wind, a moderate turbine would generate about 200 to 300 kilowatts an hour - ample energy to power the campus, he said. Once generated, the college can use the power or sell what they don't need to area power companies. Taulman said the college would probably negotiate with LaCreek Electric Association, the local electric company in Kyle. "We're working out the details with the utility grid," he said. "It's like a small power plant. The excess power we produce, we hope to sell to them." Representatives of LaCreek Electric Association were unavailable for comment. KILI Radio station uses 50,000 watts of power to broadcast its daily dose of Lakota-language talk shows, tribal music, sports coverage and rock 'n' roll. The station has joined a consortium that plans to buy and install a wind turbine. Tom Casey, KILI radio station manager, along with Honor the Earth, the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy or COUP, NativeEnergy and Midwest Renewable Energy Association, wrote a proposal to determine whether the renewable resource would be viable to power the station. They learned that there is continuous wind, enough to power a turbine and generate "buy back" from the local power company. "We're in the final throes of that proposal," Casey said. If data supports the theory of constant wind power, the consortium will buy a $95,000, 65-kilowatt Vestas wind turbine. The group hopes to complete construction as early as next spring. "The final piece of the puzzle has just been submitted to them," Casey said. Oglala Lakota College will have to establish policies for their utility needs, consider fee connections to the power grid and negotiate a buy-back rate with the power company. With the rising costs of traditional power sources, Taulman said, OLC will break away from the dependency of fossil fuels and foreign oil for a much cleaner, more efficient, renewable resource of energy. As fossil fuels and oil reserves dwindle, the college has grasped a power source that will pay back benefits to OLC, the environment and the economy, Taulman said. "We're going to have to go down this road eventually," Taulman said. "Why wait?" Contact Jomay Steen at 394-8418 or jomay.steen@rapidcityjournal.com Copyright c. 2004 The Rapid City Journal. --------- "RE: 100 Year Birthday Celebration" --------- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:55:28 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="MARY MAYES" http://www.kansascity.com//cities_neighborhoods/olathe/10257656.htm?1c Olathe woman marks 100 years with 2 parties, lots of loved ones By ALICIA B. MCGARRY Special to The Star November 28, 2004 Friends and family gathered Saturday afternoon at the Good Samaritan Towers in Olathe to celebrate the 100th birthday of Mary Louvenia "Babe" Sanders Mayes. Mary is one of 12 original enrollees in the Cherokee Nation and is a descendant of Nancy Ward, a Cherokee tribal leader who is revered by the tribe as the most beloved and powerful Cherokee woman in history. But at her birthday party Saturday, it wasn't Mary's proud American Indian lineage that was the topic of conversation. It was her hair, and, of course, her age. "Did you notice that head of hair on her?" exclaimed one Good Samaritan Towers resident. "Oh, we're all just so jealous of her," chimed in another. Mary Mayes swears by no secret to her gloriously full head of hair, or to becoming a centenarian. Friends and family agree she hasn't lost her quit wit or sharp sense of humor - which she certainly doesn't keep a secret - on her journey to triple digits, either. Larry Williams, director of resident services at the Good Samaritan Towers, recalled a most recent example of Mary's wit: "When she came back from a birthday party that was held for her in Oklahoma a few days ago, she looked right at me and said, `You're a good guy - when you're asleep!'" Mary was born to Jessie Alice Adair and Moses Frye Sanders on Nov. 16, 1904, in the Adair Colony of Sequoyah District in the Cherokee Nation. Following her mother's death just one month after Mary's birth, her maternal grandparents, Rachel Louvenia Twist and Edward Everett Adair, raised her. Mary's grandfather, Edward Everett Adair, served as Clerk for the Sequoyah District and later as councilor from the same District for the Cherokee Nation. He was also a successful farmer and cattleman. In 1922, Mary married Huey Vernon Mayes. Together, they had three children - John Ed, Doris Lanell and Betty Jo. In 1943, the family moved to Wichita, where Mary worked on some of the world's first `computing machines' while her children completed school. "I worked for Boeing and IBM, on the keypunch payroll machines," Mary said. "When we started, no one knew anything about those IBM machines, but they were just like typewriters to me." Now, more than 50 years later, Mary says she finds herself living life much in the same way as always, according to one simple philosophy - perhaps one that we should all take to heart: "I do what I want to do, and what I don't want to do, I don't do it!" In reaching the age 100, Mary joins an estimated 70,000 centenarians alive today, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The number has grown from 37,000 just since 1990, revealing an almost exponential increase in people who have been alive for an entire century - and then some. Ginger Carnes, a Good Samaritan resident and friend to Mary, hopes to join the centenarian group. "I am going to ask Mary to attend my 100th birthday party!" she said Saturday. Copyright c. 2004 The Kansas City Star. --------- "RE: YELLOW BIRD: Talking Turkey about Holiday Food" --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="YELLOW BIRD: HOLIDAY FOOD" http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/editorial/10250893.htm DORREEN YELLOW BIRD COLUMN: Talking turkey about holiday food November 23, 2004 Have you ever been to one of those Thanksgiving feasts where polite smiles and vague compliments described the meal? I have served one such meal. My first roasted turkey for my new husband many, many years ago was underdone - OK, cold - inside where the giblets, still in the bag, were nestled. When I bought the turkey, it was frozen. And who would have thought there was anything behind that ice in the turkey's cavity? I thought that if I let the bird sit in hot water for an hour or so, it would thaw. It did, and it looked good ... from the outside. So I tossed it into the oven. Then I had visions of walking into the kitchen, where I had set a table for my new husband and a couple of his college buddies. I would have my new apron on and carry this golden roasted bird into a room of "ahhs" and "ohhhs." They were polite, all right, but the meal was pretty bad. I need to say my cooking, over the years, has gotten much better. Too bad the old husband only tasted the learner's meals. We usually have a big family meal in White Shield, N.D., on the holidays. It is especially important this year that the family gather because our mother is in the hospital again and struggling. There are big meal plans in the air. We all know each other's specialties and know there probably won't be any food catastrophes. I say this because a relative who lives in the big city told me this: She was invited to the home of a friend for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago. After the first taste, she found the turkey dressing hard to swallow. She stirred it around her plate, she said, and tried to hide it under the potatoes and gravy. She didn't want to hurt the hostess' feelings, but she didn't want to eat that dressing, either. It also was hard to be thankful when the slice of turkey on her plate was slightly rare, she told me. I laughed at her exaggeration. But I do know that in our family we are of the common "giblet dressing clan." That means giblet dressing and don't fool with anything else. There are other dressings, I know. I know this because I'm an "Emeril Live" fan. I don't know if it has something to do with my age, or if I just want something pleasant to watch before I go to sleep. Emeril, a New Orleans master chef, has been on this Thanksgiving meal kick - "kicking it up several notches," as he would say. Anyway, he made this dressing using spinach and some corn meal bread. He made the bread first and crumbled it into the dressing. I couldn't taste what he made, of course, but he was putting together spinach and corn meal for dressing. It sounded healthy but not very tasty. Emril does make some strange dishes, but maybe they only are strange to me. You develop a taste for the foods that your family cooks. I know there are some Norwegian foods I've come to really like, especially the pastries, and there are others that my taste buds haven't taken to. I am talking about lutefisk. My feelings about lutefisk have nothing to do with whether it isn't prepared correctly or is underdone. It's just that lutefisk is, shall we say, an acquired taste. Over the years, my sisters and I have done some strange things with food, most of them by accident. One time, one of my sisters put salt instead of sugar into her piecrust. Fried bread seems simple, but it can be tricky to get it just right. I have tasted a lot of hard or soggy fried bread. And right up there on the top of the list of poor fried breads was served in Washington, D.C., at the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. I hope they have improved since I had my serving. Well, we are heading into the holidays and feasts certainly are a part of them. Although I'm chuckling and snickering at some cooks' mistakes, I'm reminded that the food brings us together - and more important, that no matter how meager or kingly the feast, this is a time to be thankful for all the good things the Creator has provided for us. WetikooshkawiitIt, Ati'Ux Neeshanu'tinachitakUX (which means "I thank the Creator, the Chief up above" in Sahnish.) ---- Dorreen Yellow Bird's column appears Tuesday and Saturday. Reach her at (701) 780-1228 or dyellowbird@gfherald.com Copyright c. 2004 The Grand Forks Herald. --------- "RE: Canadian First Nations Natural Gas to U.S." --------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:57:03 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="IGDC MARKETS FN GAS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://sanfrancisco.dbusinessnews.com/php?newsid=4482&type_news=latest IGDC Obtains $12 Million Investment to Market Canadian First Nations Natural Gas to United States November 22, 2004 San Francisco - Indigenous Global Development Corporation today announced its second phase of its purchase and transport of Cree Energy, Ltd., Canadian First Nation's natural gas from Canada to the United States. IGDC's Phase II purchase will include additional sales and transport of Canadian natural gas into the U.S. Indigenous Global can purchase a total of 92,700,000 MMBtus (90 billion cubic feet) of natural gas per year, at a discount to the U.S. spot market, for the next 25 years under their contract with Cree Energy. IGDC will sell the natural gas to established purchasers and use it to fuel its power plant program. Its current purchase is $3 million of natural gas per month. This will increase to $6 million by the next quarter and increase to $9 million of natural gas per month within 18 months. This second phase catalyst included a line of credit up to $12 million provided by a private fund that specializes in the Energy Industry. IGDC sees this first opportunity with the private energy fund as being the first of many for the IGDC's Energy Program. Projects under current development include the power plants for base load and peaker opportunities, wind and hydropower projects. "We are pleased to support solid and economically viable projects in Indian Country that create returns to our fund, as well as, empowering the tribes through sustainable resource management," said Taylor Flynn, a Principal with the investment group. "We are providing four million and up to 12 million dollars to support the natural gas trading of IGDC and its First Nations partners. We look forward to reviewing additional power projects by IGDC and the start of a mutually beneficial relationship." "Phase two is a clear milestone in our relationship with the Canadian First Nations," said Deni Leonard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Indigenous Global Development Corporation. "This truly launches our efforts to provide a model for self-management of Canadian First Nations natural resources by Canadian tribes. We are all excited by the possibilities this brings to the future of Canadian and United States Indigenous trade." About Indigenous Global Development Corporation Indigenous Global Development Corporation (IGDC) is the first majority owned publicly traded Native American corporation. IGDC's goal is to provide strategy, financial and investment tools to deliver economic development, empowerment and financial self-sufficiency for Native Americans across the U.S. and for indigenous people worldwide. Investment financing, tribal energy creation and pharmaceutical development for Native American communities are its primary tools to create positive change in Indian Country. Its parent company is United Native Depository Corporation. You can find more information about Indigenous Global and United Native Depository Corporation at www.igdc1.com and www.undc1.com. Copyright c. 2004 dBusinessNews. --------- "RE: 'Bed and breakfast' Jail System" --------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:48:24 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="REZ JAILS" http://www.owlstar.com/dailyheadlines.htm http://www.thenavajotimes.com/_content/bednbreakfast.php 'Bed and breakfast' system Officials lament lack of money for new jails By Jason Begay Navajo Times WINDOW ROCK - Most convicted criminals on the Navajo Nation do not serve more than a fraction of the sentences imposed on them, officials say. In fact, corrections administrators say that less than five percent serve a complete sentence. Though most, if not all, of these individuals are convicted of misdemeanor crimes, the Navajo Nation Corrections Department sees an alarmingly high number of repeat offenders that administrators said could be deterred if given more financing. "The facilities are no longer meeting the goals they were set out to: To deter crime," said Delores Greyeyes, Department of Corrections director. Instead, both repeat offenders and corrections staff half-jokingly refer to the Navajo Reservation's six facilities as "bed and breakfasts," she said. Perpetrators of serious felonies, including murders and sex crimes, are usually handled in federal courts and held in federal facilities. Greyeyes, who has led the department for a year, lays much of the blame on lack of financing. The corrections department is allotted $2.8 million from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which covers salary costs, Greyeyes said. This year, the Navajo Nation paid about $517,213 for operating costs, an average amount, said Greyeyes, who estimated the daily cost to house an inmate at $65. Despite the flow of inmates that go through the tribal jail system - by up to 2,000 people in recent years Greyeyes estimated - funding has flat- -lined and remained at the same level for the past several years, leading to limited staffing and almost no rehabilitation programs. This is common amongst American Indian jails, according to a report by the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of the Inspector General. The report detailed the conditions at 14 reservation jails, many in the Southwestern United States, including the Hopi, Zuni and San Carlos Apache reservations. Among those sites the jails in Shiprock and Tohatchi each logged the highest number of suicide attempts - seven and six, respectively - than any other facility in the last three years. In total, the Shiprock jail logged the highest total of serious incidents, 10, including a death by suicide and two escapes. The report detailed a 2001 incident when an individual detained in the Shiprock facility attempted to hang himself seven times using articles of clothing and towels left in the cell. As a result, the detention officer on duty took away each item the inmate tried to use in each attempt "until the inmate remained in his cell without any clothing or towels," the report states. During her year leading the Department of Corrections, Greyeyes said she has focused on officer training. The department employees about 130 officers and has sent 15 to Artesia, N.M. for mandatory basic training in the last year increasing the percentage of certified officers to 90 percent. Most of the remaining officers and new hires and are expected to be sent to training in January, Greyeyes said. "In Tohatchi, there were not a lot of officers who were certified," Greyeyes said. The Inspector General report stated that officer training is "inconsistent and unpredictable" in Indian jails. "The majority of the detention officers at the sites we visited have yet to attend mandatory basic training," the report states. On the Navajo Nation, the lack of jail space is one of the biggest concerns. Among the crimes committed by criminals in Navajo Nation facilities are petty theft, child neglect/abuse, and domestic violence, depending on the severity of the incident. Average jail sentences range from six months to a year. In all, tribal facilities can hold up to 103 inmates on a long- term basis, but with limited space, most, if not all, inmates are rushed out of the jails to make room for others. "There are a lot of individuals out there who are dangerous and should be behind bars," Greyeyes said. For instance, Ophelia Begay, a detention officer and training specialist coordinator, said, barring any serious incidents, a convicted criminal sentenced to six months might serve one month before detention staff begin to initiate parole proceedings. "Nobody is completing their full sentence," Greyeyes said flatly. "They won't be unless the conditions are improved with more space and better facilities." In October, a member from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget toured two Navajo jail sites. Tribal administrators hope the visit will help focus more attention and eventually federal funding, to the reservation. Ultimately, Greyeyes would like to see all six of the department's facilities replaced with new buildings as opposed to constructing one central jail that would serve the entire reservation. The separate facilities serving each major community better fits into the rehabilitation portion of the corrections department, she said. "We want to keep the individual close to their community," she said. "We want to focus on local community needs." For instance, Greyeyes would like to implement rehabilitation programs like traditional services, as well as public service programs, where inmates would perform work outside the jail. "Rather than getting a free bed and breakfast, they would be providing a service," Greyeyes said. Copyright c. 2004 Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc. All rights reserved. --------- "RE: Violent Crime a way of life in Indian Country" --------- Date: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:13 PM From: MJLaBurt@aol.com Subj: Violent crime a way of life in Indian Country Mailing List: NDNAIM http://www.billingsgazette.com//2004/11/28/build/local/32-violent-crime.inc Violent crime a way of life in Indian Country By BECKY SHAY Of The Gazette Staff November 28, 2004 Recent federal reports show that people in Indian Country are about twice as likely to become victims of crime, especially violent crime, as those outside tribal boundaries. Indian Country statistics on violent crime have been steady for more than a decade, while violent crime in other areas of the nation has declined. Violence in Indian Country often is considered just a way of life, said Jacklyn Littlebird, coordinator of the Crow Victims Assistance Program. "It's so normal to them, they just live it," she said. The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that in 2000, American Indians and Alaska Natives experienced violence at about one-third again as great a rate than the country as a whole. According to the same set of statistics, aggravated assault among American Indians and Alaska Natives in 2000 was roughly twice that of the country as a whole. Indian Country crime numbers have dropped slightly from the mid-1990s, when then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said high crime rates created "a public safety crisis in Indian Country." Indian Health Service studies showed that the American Indian rate of homicide in the mid '90s was 63 percent greater than the figure for all races combined and 178 percent greater than for whites. Matthew Pryor, agent in charge of law enforcement for the BIA's six- state district that includes Montana, said a major part of the crime problem is that there simply aren't enough officers and investigators. Few officers working large territories can only react to crime rather than work to prevent it, Pryor said. ---- Here are updates on some American Indian homicides in the area reported recently in The Billings Gazette. VICTIM: William Alvin Wick, 43, of Busby SUSPECT: Orville David Morrison, 26, of Busby CRIME: Wick died Oct. 3 of a shotgun wound to the head while he and two women were at Morrison's father's house near Busby getting spare parts for a car. PROSECUTION: Morrison was arrested Oct. 13. On Oct. 22, Morrison pleaded not guilty in federal court to second-degree murder, using a firearm during a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held without bond; no trial date has been set. VICTIM: Paul Dexter Morning Jr., 17, of Crow Agency SUSPECT: Mitchell Chandler, 22, of Crow Agency CRIME: Morning, a senior at Skyview High School in Billings, was stabbed to death at a party near Dunmore, along the Little Bighorn River, early May 27 PROSECUTION: Chandler pleaded not guilty Aug. 30 in federal court to second-degree murder. VICTIMS: Wayne Evan Not Afraid, 26, killed; Floyd Daniel Grant, 25, injured SUSPECTS: Vincent "Vinny" Whiteman, 14, of Lame Deer and Detrich Shoulderblade, 21, of Lame Deer CRIME: Not Afraid was beaten to death with a baseball bat and Grant suffered severe head injuries in the attack Feb. 6 outside a trailer house in Hardin. PROSECUTION: Whiteman was arrested March 2 in Lame Deer. Shoulderblade was arrested there March 18. Whiteman, who turned 14 on Feb. 26, is charged as an adult in Big Horn County District Court and pleaded not guilty on March 4 to deliberate homicide and aggravated assault. The transfer of his case to adult court was appealed to the Montana Supreme Court. He is being held on $1 million bond in Billings. Shoulderblade pleaded not guilty April 6 to deliberate homicide and aggravated assault. He is being held on $1 million bond in Big Horn County. Shoulderblade's trial is scheduled March 21, 2005. Investigators have said they believe the attack stemmed in part from a longstanding family feud involving the slaying of Franklin Whiteman Sr. in Hardin in 2001. VICTIM: Emerson Ira Pickett, 30, of Garryowen SUSPECT: Quinton Birdinground Jr., 24, of Crow Agency CRIME: Birdinground fatally shot Pickett, an uncle, on Feb. 8, 2003, during a three-way struggle after he found him with his estranged girlfriend at a house on the Crow Reservation. PROSECUTION: Birdinground was convicted in federal court on Dec. 18, 2003, of second-degree murder, assault resulting in serious bodily injury and use of a firearm in a crime of violence. He was sentenced in March to 24 years in federal prison. Copyright c. 2004 Billings Gazette. --------- "RE: Awaiting justice: 'A Brutal, Brutal Crime'" --------- Date: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:15 PM From: MJLaBurt@aol.com Subj: Awaiting justice: 'A brutal, brutal crime' Mailing List: NDNAIM http://www.billingsgazette.com//build/local/30-awaiting-justice.inc Awaiting justice: 'A brutal, brutal crime' Story by GREG TUTTLE and MIKE STARK Photos by JAMES WOODCOCK Of The Gazette Staff November 28, 2004 HARDIN - A storm rolled in a few days before Thanksgiving last year, dropping temperatures into the teens and leaving behind several inches of snow. On a lonely stretch of County Road 50A south of Hardin, the snow hid one of the most violent crimes in recent years in Big Horn County. Two friends, Koren Diebert, 26, and LaFonda Big Leggins, 23, were bludgeoned to death with a tire jack and their bodies dumped in a ditch. Family members were urged not to view the bodies; their faces had been obliterated. "This was a brutal, brutal crime," said Terry Bullis, Big Horn County coroner. It has been a year since the bodies of the young women were found frozen in the snow last Thanksgiving. Since then, three Hardin brothers identified as suspects in the murders have been in and out of custody, and no one has been charged. There is controversy, criticism and frustration among those close to the case. In Hardin and on the Crow Reservation, the unsolved murders have opened new wounds over old scars. Frightened and angry family members wonder if they'll ever see justice. "We're not giving up," said Koren's mother, Naomi Costa. "I want some kind of justice for my daughter." The top Crow tribal official says the case has exposed racism toward American Indians by the federal authorities responsible for solving violent crimes on the reservation. It's not the only case, he said, that has failed to receive enough attention from federal law enforcement. "It's just blatant, blatant racism on their part," said Crow Tribal Chairman Carl Venne. "There's no other way to explain it." Federal authorities who have jurisdiction in the case say they are frustrated, too. Rumors that the double homicide investigation was bungled or not taken seriously are countered with angry denial. The former top FBI agent in Billings said the murder investigation has been and remains a priority for the agency and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which shares jurisdiction in the case. Dan Vierthaler, who recently stepped down as the FBI's agent in charge for Eastern Montana, called the accusation of racism offensive. "It is a real slap in the face," said Vierthaler, who remains a special agent in Billings. "When you work that hard ... to be told you don't care or worse yet, you're racist, it's not true." The case has also strained relations between the local and federal law enforcement agencies that are forced to work together investigating crimes that cross state, federal and reservation boundaries. "I think it's really soured both sides," said Big Horn County Sheriff T. Larson Medicinehorse. "I think law enforcement agencies that work here, we need to get together and visit and iron out our differences." Frustration over the case led to a protest in Billings last week in which about 300 Crow tribal members converged on the offices of the U.S. attorney and FBI. Tribal members vowed to continue pressing the federal government for progress in the murder case. The day after the protest, U.S. Attorney Bill Mercer said the decision to file charges in the double murder will be made only when the investigation is complete and prosecutors are prepared to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. "I certainly don't want people to believe these things are tied to a timeline," Mercer said. "What they're tied to is completeness and thoroughness." As the investigation and the controversy continue, Koren's mother tries to stay busy raising her granddaughter, Brooke, who was 7 years old when her mother was murdered. "Not a day goes by when she doesn't cry for her mom," Naomi Costa said. *** Koren Nola Diebert was born March 22, 1977, at Crow Agency, the youngest of five children. When she was 3 and her brother, Jethro, was 5, the two left their mother's home in Crow Agency to live with their father outside Great Falls. Jethro said his father, Richard Diebert, who is not Indian, was an abusive alcoholic. But Jethro said his father loved his children, especially Koren. In elementary school, Koren was quick to make friends and fond of teasing her older brother. She loved animals, especially ones down on their luck. "She'd go around town and take in all the stray puppies," her mother said. "Sometimes people would get mad and come looking for their puppies." Koren and Jethro also learned about prejudice at a young age. As the only Indian kids in their small, rural school, Jethro said, they were often picked on by the other children. "But I was more sensitive to that than she was," he said. In the summers, Koren and Jethro returned to Crow Agency to be with friends and family. Her ties to the reservation remained strong despite her split family and mixed heritage. At 16, Koren moved out of her dad's house and attended St. Labre Indian School in Ashland. After two years, she got pregnant, dropped out and had a baby girl. She moved in with her mother when she was 18, and soon had another daughter. In time, hope stirred in Koren to turn her life around. "She was trying to make a good living ... but it's hard to do in Hardin, " Naomi said. As she reached her mid-20s, Koren decided to turn her love for animals into a career. She planned to move to Billings where she could learn to be a veterinary assistant. Her friend, LaFonda, wanted a chance for something new, too. LaFonda Rose Big Leggins was born in Wolf Point on Sept. 23, 1980. Her mother was an alcoholic and her father wasn't around, so when LaFonda was 4 months old, she was placed in the foster care of Gilbert and Marion Miller. "She was my little girl," Marion Miller said. Over the next two decades, LaFonda had five sets of foster parents in Wolf Point and Billings. "She was a happy, cheerful girl, always smiling," Miller said. "She just played with her little friends, what little girls do, and went fishing and camping with us on our vacations." LaFonda attended elementary school in Wolf Point and moved to Billings when she was 9 or 10 years old, Miller said. The Millers kept in contact with Lafonda, talking on the phone about once a month and taking her shopping when they visited Billings. Lafonda returned to Wolf Point three years ago and spent a few months reconnecting with friends and family. "She was still cheerful but she was different," Miller said. LaFonda's mother died at age 37 at a care center in Poplar in December 2002. In March of that year, LaFonda became a suspect in a hit-and-run accident in Lockwood that seriously injured a pedestrian. She denied that she was driving when the car hit the woman but refused to say who may have been driving her car. She spent 20 days in jail for not having insurance on the car. Koren and LaFonda liked to party, friends and family said. Autopsy results showed that both women were intoxicated when they were killed. LaFonda and Koren rented a small house together. They hung out with a crowd at a Hardin tavern and pool hall called the Corner Pocket. The women's friendship was a natural pairing of opposites: LaFonda was small and scrappy with a quick wit and sharp tongue. Koren was large and affable with an easy laugh and a preference for the underdog. In the fall of 2003, the friends had made a plan to leave their life in Hardin behind. They would move to an apartment in Billings and Koren would attend veterinary classes. LaFonda would join the Job Corps. "The last time I talked to her was the 5th of November," said Miller, LaFonda's first foster mother. "She was telling me how excited she was to move to Billings." A friend had agreed to drive the two women to Billings on Nov. 19 to find a place to live. LaFonda and Koren never showed up. *** Big Horn County Sheriff's Detective Harvey Dalton was called a few days after Koren and LaFonda missed their ride. He sensed this was more than a missing persons case. "I knew there was something very, very wrong with these women," Dalton said. "I would have been very amazed if the girls had been found alive." Koren's family was relieved that someone was taking the disappearance seriously. Koren's mother had tearfully tried to report her daughter missing three times within two days at the BIA office in Crow Agency. "She was worried, she was frightened, she was exasperated," Dalton recalled. "She was afraid the tribal cops weren't doing anything." Dalton's first task was to chase down the origin of a rumor: The two women had been taken to a party spot south of Hardin and beaten to death. The rumor led Dalton to someone connected to the three Hardin brothers, Eugene, Moses and Randy Rising Sun. The person said one of the brothers told how the women were killed and where the bodies were dumped. Dalton believed the informant, who gave a taped statement, and began building a list of people to talk with. One of Dalton's first calls was to Bob Pease, a veteran investigator with the BIA. "I told him when he walked in, 'We've got some dead girls,' " Dalton said. Pease listened to the informant's statement and agreed. The story that emerged put Koren and LaFonda with the Rising Sun brothers early on the morning of Nov. 19. No one had seen them since. Earlier that evening, the five were at the Corner Pocket. The Rising Suns left after a confrontation at the bar. It's unclear whether Koren and LaFonda left with the brothers or met up with them later, but all five ended up at a house party in Hardin. They left together at ab out 2 a.m. and drove south of town to a remote area on the reservation known as Pussy Pond, investigators were told. Pease, Dalton and two other officers went to the pond, which is five miles off Highway 313 on Road 50A, not far from the Bighorn River. It was late in the day, though, when the officers arrived. They didn't find anything suspicious, but decided a more thorough search was warranted. On Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, about 50 people, including members of Koren's family, converged on the area surrounding the pond to look for the missing women. The snowstorm had passed, but it remained bitter cold. Divers from Casper, Wyo., broke through the ice and searched most of the two-acre pond. Amid snowdrifts and with temperatures in the teens, the search was ended midafternoon. Pease, Dalton and others on the search prepared to return the next day. At about 8:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, an off-duty BIA employee on his way to rejoin the search spotted clothing protruding through the snow in a roadside ditch about a mile from the pond. He called Pease. Word of the discovery spread quickly and the search was called off. As the area was cordoned off, Naomi Costa and her sister, Jessica, were stopped by an officer a few miles away. Venne, the tribal chairman, who was helping in the search, met them at a cattle guard. He hugged Naomi Costa and told her she should go no farther. "You probably want to remember her as the last time you saw her," Venne said. Copyright c. 2004 The Billings Gazette. --------- "RE: Native Prisoner" --------- Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 08:03 AM From: Janet Smith [owlstar@bellsouth.net] Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - As recently as July of this year, there was a national uproar over a published federal investigation of BIA detention facilities. It deplored the condition of the 74 facilities that were inspected and the "laissez-faire" attitude of BIA officials. Numerous deaths, both from suicide and other causes, were attributed to jail conditions, including lack of sufficient supervision. The tragic death of a young girl in a "drunk cell" at a boarding school in Washington state is still mentioned in the news occasionally. And still, this week's story shows that preventable deaths continue in BIA jails. What more incentive is needed to spur BIA and tribal officials to run responsible detention facilities? Woman dies in tribal jail Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. - Federal officials are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman in a U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs jail cell on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Misty E. Ford, who was receiving medical treatment for a heart and lung condition, complained of chest pains the day before she was found dead, family members say. An ambulance crew was summoned to the jail but didn't treat the inmate, concluding "she was faking it," family members contend. Ford, a former resident of the Rocky Boys Indian Reservation in Montana, was found dead Nov. 14. The FBI, which investigates deaths on Indian reservations, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are both looking into circumstances surrounding Ford's death, authorities said. BIA officials who supervise the jail said they couldn't discuss the investigation. The victim's fiance, Steve Andrews, said Friday that he had visited his girlfriend for the 15 minutes allowed at the jail in Wellpinit the day before she died. "She said, 'There's something wrong. I know my body. I need to go to the hospital,' " Andrews said. Misty Ford's sister, Randi Ford, and their mother, Ethel "Vonnie" Ford, also visited her that day and tried to convince the jail staff that she needed treatment. Misty Ford was arrested by tribal police in early August on charges of attempting to elude an officer and driving under the influence. In tribal court, she was sentenced to seven months in jail, to be followed by two months of substance abuse treatment. On at least two other occasions since she landed in jail in early August, Misty Ford had been taken by ambulance from the BIA jail in Wellpinit to the emergency room at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. Andrews said Ford was suffering from pulmonary hypertension, a disease that prevents oxygen from traveling from the lungs to the bloodstream. Copyright c. 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. Copyright c. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises --------- "RE: History: Carlisle Indian School" --------- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:06:33 -0400 From: Barbara Landis Subj: October 23, 1891 INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School. [Editorial Note: These reprints are being included in this newsletter so that you might know the mind of those who ran institutions like Carlisle.] THE INDIAN HELPER ~%^%~ A WEEKLY LETTER FROM THE Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa. ================================================ VOL. VII. FRIDAY, October 23, 1891 NUMBER 7 ================================================ OCTOBER is the month that seems All woven with midsummer dreams; She brings for us the golden days That fill the air with smoky haze. Now half the birds forget to sing And half of them have taken wing, Before their pathway shall be lost Beneath the gossamer of frost; Now one by one the gay leaves fly Zig-zag across the yellow sky; They rustle here, they flutter there, Until the bough hangs chill and bare. ========= IF INDIANS ARE STRONG IN BATTLE, HOW ABOUT THIS KIND OF BATTLE? --------- A Great Man and His Fight With a Cigar. Why did the Man-on-the-band-stand cut out of an exchange these words about Chauncey M. Depew? Why did he keep them so long in his vest pocket? After hearing the strong words from Captain last Saturday evening at English Speaking - strong words against the habit of using the harmful weed, the Man-on-the-band-stand knew EXACTLY why he had cared so tenderly for this bit of experience. The story was made to FIT RIGHT ON to those earnest and TRUE words we heard from the captain. Read it and see if it fits! Every one knows that Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is a great orator and a Railroad president and a very popular president and a very popular gentleman: HE says: "I used to smoke. I became worn out. I didn't know what was the matter with me and physicians that I applied to did not mention tobacco. I used to go to bed at two o'clock in the morning, and wake at five or six. I had no appetite. I was in the habit of smoking at my desk and thought that I derived material assistance in my work from it. After a time I found that I couldn't do any work without tobacco. I also found that I was incapable of doing any GREAT AMOUNT of work. My power of concentration was greatly weakened, and I could not think well without a lighted cigar in my mouth. Now it is perfectly clear that without this power of concentration a man is incapable of doing many things. It is this which enables him to attend to various and multifarious affairs; to drop one absolutely, and take up another and give it full attention. One day I bought a cigar and was puffing it with a feeling of pleasure which is only possible to the devotee. I smoked only a few inches, and then I took it out of my mouth and looked at it. I said to it: 'My friend and bosom companion, you have always been dearer to me than gold or woman. To you I have ever been devoted, yet you are the cause of all my ills. You have played me false. The time has come that we must part.' I gazed sad and longingly at the cigar, then threw it into the street. I had become convinced that tobacco was ruining me. For three months thereafter I underwent the most awful agony. ------------------------------------------------------- (Continued on the fourth page.) ============================================ (p. 2) The Indian Helper. ----------------------------- PRINTED EVERY FRIDAY, -AT THE- INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA. BY INDIAN BOYS. --> THE INDIAN HELPER is PRINTED by Indian boys, but EDITED by The-Man-on-the-band-stand, who is NOT an Indian. ----------------------------- Price: - 10 cents a year. ============================== Address INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle, Pa. Miss M. Burgess, Manager. ============================== Entered in the P.O. at Carlisle as second class mail matter. ============================== The INDIAN HELPER is paid for in advance, so do not hesitate to take the paper from the Post Office, for fear a bill will be presented. ============================= The farmer kills the tobacco-worm and the tobacco kills the farmer. -Ex. --------- A club of twenty subscriptions has been received from Mrs. Joshua Given, now at Madison, Conn. --------- Word has been received that Mr. and Mrs. Bennett arrived safely at their new post of duty, the Seneca Indian School. --------- The answer to last week's Bible Puzzle is in reply to the clergyman: "The idea, doctor, that you should forget that the children that Herod killed were all boys." --------- We gain by the Doylestown *Intelligencer,* the sad news that the man with whom Stanley Edge lived last summer dropped dead at his home, last week. --------- Miss Coats has been advanced to the principalship of the High School, at Corry, Pa. She says in a recent letter, "One month has passed and it has been as pleasant a month as any I ever passed in a school room." Miss Coats still keeps an interest in Carlisle where she taught with us for a while. --------- The Carlisle Indian School Band stands thus with Dennison Wheelock, as leader: 1. James Wheelock, Eb Clarinet; 2. Thomas Suckley, 1st Bb Clarinet; 3. Hiram Bailey, 2nd Bb Clarinet; 4. Andrew Young, Piccolo; 5. Edwin Schanadore, Solo Cornet; 6. Dennison Wheelock, Solo Cornet; 7. Peter Cornelius, 1st Bb Cornet; 8. Harvey Warner, 1st Bb Cornet; 9. William Beaulieu, 2nd Bb Cornet; 10. Harry Kohpay, 2nd Bb Cornet; 11. Joseph Morrison, 3rd Bb Cornet; 12. David Abraham, Solo Eb Alto; 13. Thomas Metoxen, 1st Eb Alto; 14. Joseph Martinez, 2nd Eb Alto; 15. Malpass Cloud, 1st Tenor; 16. Paul Lovejoy, 2nd Tenor; 17. William Baird, Euphonium; 18. Reuben Wolf, 1st Eb Tuba; 19. Hugh E. James, 2nd Eb Tuba; 20. Jos. B. Harris, Snare Drum; 21. Jamison Schanadore, Bass Drum; 22. Joseph Hamilton, Cymbals; 23. Benjamin Harrison, Drum-Major. The members of the Band are from nine different tribes. So Afraid of An Indian. A member of a certain church not far distant asked his rector to apply for an Indian boy to work in his harness shop. The clergymen wrote to the office and a favorable response was given, on the receipt of which he says: "Your favorable response to my letter was received. I hastened with it to the man that requested me to write you. I saw at once that he had changed his mind. I ascribed it to the influence of those who associated with the name Indian, a wild man covered with warpaint and decorated with feathers. I was surprised when I saw the man really did not want to take the boy and yet did not know how to keep from doing so." Too bad! We invited the man to come and examine some specimens of hand-made harness made by our boys. Maybe he would change his mind again, and be willing to pay good wages for an Indian hand. --------- The Y.M.C.A. course for the winter is exceptionally good. A chance to see some of the finest musicians and stage artists in the world, at such a low rate of admission is very rare. For this class of entertainment in a large city a single ticket would cost at least a dollar but through the Y.M.C.A. we get the benefit of five first class performances for $1.50 or for thirty cents a ticket. Of Course for reserved seats we have to pay a little more. --------- The "Whatsoever Circle" of King's Daughters is to meet every Saturday evening before English Speaking for Bible Study, which they are entering upon with great interest. The Circle "Sunshine Scatterers" held a meeting on Saturday evening to plan the making of some pretty things with a view to possible purchasers about Christmas time, to give them a purse from which to draw for those poorer than themselves. --------- "Pepper now-a-days is half peas," said one at the teachers'club table the other day. "Well, I thought something was the matter with it," said another to help the joke along. "Of course it is half p's" replied a wise one, "p-e-p (pep) p-e-r-(per) pepper," and half the others called for a fan, while some jingled their knives in the absence of chestnut bells. --------- A letter from Mojave City, Arizona, contains price of subscription of HELPER and *Red Man,* and says: "We have a flourishing school for the 'red children' with S.M. McCowan, as superintendent." --------- Nicholas Ruleau has taken Wallace Charging Shield's place at the Pine Ridge Agency Boarding School, as Assistant Disciplinarian. Wallace was obliged to vacate on account of ill health. --------- The Phila. *Press* says it doesn't take much effort for a man to do right if he WANTS to do it, and the Man-on-the-band-stand always found that to be the case with himself. --------- "I don't think I can get along without the HELPER, although I have a good many other papers, but this is the one I most admire." -[SUBSCRIBER. ====================================================== (page 3) Exhibition tonight. If a boy or girl makes a funny bow, don't laugh; you might hurt his or her feelings. The walnut trees have shed all their leaves. Wonder what girl always talks during roll call. The girls formed in line for inspection out of doors, Sunday morning. Miss Rote left us Tuesday afternoon, and the very clouds wept copiously. The Man-on-the-band-stand hopes that the Harrisburg fever is not dangerous. The girls are now occupying the rooms in the new west wing of the girls' quarters. Mrs. Campbell took part in the concert given at the Reformed Church, last night. The re-organization of the base-ball clubs has been due to the arrival of good players from farms. It was a sorry game on Saturday for the Red Men. The Regulars beat them by a score of thirty to one. There are a very few vacant seats in the school-rooms at study hour since our country girls have come in. The tables at the teachers' club were decorated this week by flowers from the garden of our friend Miss Edge, of Downingtown. Harry Kohpay has returned from Osage Agency, I.T., bringing with him four boys. Among them is Frank Penn, an old pupil. The Misses Michener of Parkersburg, Chester County visited the school this week. One of the ladies was Miss Nana's teacher in Atlanta a year or so ago. There must have been a taffy-pull somewhere, from the odor that was wafted on one of the breezes that swept by the band-stand the other evening. Susan King, Chippewa, was laid away in her last resting place on Wednesday afternoon. Her casket was prettily decorated with flowers from the hands of her friends. Mrs. Barrows of the *Christian Register,* a woman with a very large heart ever ready for good works, a correspondent of several leading papers and one of the most expert stenographic reporters in the country, spent Friday night with us. The girls extend a hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. Richard Lippencott, of Rancocas, N.J., for a large number of periodicals sent to their new reading room, and to Miss Sallie Howell, for a beautiful book entitled, "Our Dumb Animals." Miss Dittes, who has charge of the girls, thinks the patrons with whom the country girls have lived this summer, deserve a word of thanks for the happy, wholesome condition in which they were sent in on Friday. Their clothing and they themselves show marked care and interest on the part of the patrons. A number of the patrons sent by their Indian farm daughters to friends at the school presents of cake, biscuit elegant bread and jelly of the girls' own make in several instances, all of which greatly delighted the hearts as well as the "tasters" of those thus kindly remembered. Shoot the Texas hats. The maple trees are beginning to turn. Wonder why there was so much heart in the Praise that was sung at supper the night before picnic! Was every one so happy? Joe is trying to dry some walnuts for Christmas, but from general appearances he will have to sit on the bag to keep any - the boys are so FOND of walnuts, don't you know. Mr. Conlyn, of town, called on Wednesday and asked for that printing office clock which died last week. We are sure from the way he looked at it, he is going to bring it to life again. John Sanborn has entered the printing office, making our list number fourteen, nine in the morning and five in the afternoon, and we have work enough to keep all busy and learning. Richard Davis' house at the near farm is receiving its last touch of paint and will soon be ready for occupancy. Richard and Nannie will have a nice little home there. The outlook from the west balcony is beautiful. Miss Carter's Sunday School class had a good time in her room two evenings playing games and eating apples while she tried to learn their names. She has such a host of wee little boys and girls, this year, and they are as "bright as bright." The re-organized Junior team stands, Malcolm Clarke Capt. and Pitcher; Johnson Spencer, c.; Robert Big Bear, 1 b.; Samuel Sixkiller, 2 b.; Joseph Gorden, 3 b; Frank Shively, s.S.' Clarke Gregg, r.F.; Darwin Hays, c.f.; George Suis, l.f. No man could be more proud of his daughters than the Man-on-the-band-stand as of his girls in the long line that passed in front of the band stand as they came from the station last Friday afternoon, on their return from farms, to attend school here this winter - a whole regiment of as womanly looking girls as one often sees. We go to press Wednesday evening this week to get ready for the picnic on Thursday (yesterday) but at this writing, Wednesday morning, the weather looks unpropitious. The prospects are, a special train to accommodate the whole 580 of us, to go to that renowned resort for this part of the country - Mt. Alto. The Secrets Base Ball Club, as reorganized is composed of the following players: Capt. and c. Stailey Norcross; p. Martin Archiquette; 1st b., Jos. Morrison; 2nd b. Jack Wilson; ss. Philip Lavatta; 3rd b., Alex Garlow; r.f., Mark W. Shield; c.f., Thomas Kichumi; l.f., David Abraham; substitute, Asbury Clark; umpire, Albert Bishop; manager, Mr.J.B. Wolfe. The prayer-meeting hour, on both Thursday and Sunday evenings was filled to overflowing with Bible verses, prayers and good words from both boys and girls. The three delegates to the Y.M.C.A. Convention at Franklin, Pa., have come back to us enthusiastic over the good people met and good words heard. One of the means of education is to mingle with people wiser and better than ourselves. ================================================== (page 4) (Continued From the First Page.) -------------------------------------------------- I never expect to suffer more in this world or the next. I didn't go to any physician or endeavor in any way to palliate my sufferings. Possibly a physician might have given me something to soften the tortures. Neither did I break my vow. I had made up my mind that I must forever abandon tobacco or I would be ruined by it. At the end of three months my longing for it abated. I gained twenty-five pounds in weight. I slept well for seven or eight hours every night. I have never smoked from that day to this; and while no one knows better than I the pleasures to be derived from tobacco, I am still well content to forego them, knowing their effect." ========== ARE ANY OF THE INDIAN BOYS AND GIRLS LIKE THIS? --------- Not many. But after observing the manners of two or three of our pupils at table the other day, the Man-on-the-band-stand thought of the following little article printed in a paper published at a large industrial school in New Jersey, and also thought it might be a good thing if we all should read it: Said Lord Chesterfield, "Let me see a stranger at the dinner table and I will tell you what manner of man he is - whether he be a gentleman or a boor, a scholar or an ignoramus, of refined and gentle instincts or a brute and a savage." There is a great deal of truth in the remark and when a man goes abroad in the world he will find that respectable people put their first estimate of him in accordance with the way in which he behaves himself at the table, and how he handles his knife, fork and spoon, drinks his tea and coffee, eats his food, etc. When a new boy arrives at our school, on observing him at the dinner table, we can always tell what sort of bringing up he has had at home. Some approach their meal in much the same manner that a porker goes to his trough, and had just about as much politeness as the animal covered with bristles. He reaches out in all directions and makes wild grabs after the food within his reach, stuffs his mouth as full as he can, smacks his lips and snorts and blows in efforts to get his breath, spills his tea and coffee and other food on the table-cloth, and when he is through the place he has occupied truly resembles the place where swine are fed. He dings his cup, glass, plate, or table with knife, fork, or spoon, shuffles his feet, and in these and other ways makes a general nuisance of himself much to the disgust of every person within sight or hearing. The boy may not be much to blame for the conduct when he arrives at our school for such actions plainly show that his home education has not been what it should have been, and that he is sadly in need of reformation in this as well as in other respects. When such a boy appears in our midst he should be instructed in the proper way of behaving at table, and if he will not learn with one or two lessons, he should be sternly dealt with until he sees the error of his ways, and acts as a decent member of the human family should. This course of treatment will be of great service to him when he goes out into the world for his behavior at table will certainly put a stamp upon him, either for good or for evil consequences. It will be worth many dollars for him to know how to behave at table, and may be the means of deciding whether he shall be the possessor of a fortune or a beggar. ========== ANAGRAMS. ---- 1. Change the letters "The Law" so as to read something that most people very much desire. 2. Change the letters in "Grin, O Ant!" into something that none of us wish to be, and what we came to Carlisle to drive away. 3. Change "Ten mad men" into something better. 4. Change "A mild bear" into what we would say of such a bear. 5. Change "Fits creep on," into what we all wish to gain in every thing we do. 6. Change "Great helps" into the greatest of helps in modern inventions. 7. Change "The rats" into something that frequently precedes punishment, but which are good for nothing without punishment. (The above list of words was sent by a lady 85 years of age, who lives in Rochester Mass.) ===================================================== STANDING OFFER. Premiums will be forwarded free to persons sending subscriptions for the INDIAN HELPER, as follows: 1. For one subscription and a 2-cent stamp extra, a printed copy of the Pueblo photo advertised below in paragraph 5. 2. For two subscriptions and a 1-cent stamp extra, the printed copy of Apache contrast, the original photo of which, composing two groups, on separate cards (8x10), may be had by sending 30 subscriptions and 5 cents extra. (This is the most popular photograph we have ever had taken, as it shows such a decided contrast between a group of Apaches as they arrived and the same pupils four months later.) 3. For five subscriptions and a 1-cent stamp extra, a group of the 17 Indian printer boys. Name and tribe of each given. Or, pretty faced pappoose in Indian cradle. Or, Richard Davis and family. 4. For seven subscriptions and a 2-cent stamp extra, a boudoir combination showing all our prominent buildings. 5. For ten subscriptions and a 2-cent stamp extra, two photographs, one showing a group of Pueblos as they arrived in their Indian dress and another of the same pupils three years after, showing marked and interesting contrast. Or, a contrast of a Navajo boy as he arrived and a few years after. 6. For fifteen subscriptions and 5-cents extra, a group of the whole school (9x14), faces show distinctly. Or, 8x10 photo of prominent Sioux chiefs. Or, 8x10 photo of Indian baseball club. Or, 8x10 photo of graduating classes, choice of '89, '90, '91. Or, 8x10 photo of buildings. 7. For forty subscriptions and 7-cents extra, a copy of "Stiya, a returned Carlisle Indian girl at home." Without accompanying extra for postage, premiums will not be sent. ================================================= Transcribed from the original by Barbara Landis-- http://www.carlisleindianschool.org There is a discussion page and blog linked among the menu options on the web pages. ================================================== Barbara C. Landis Carlisle Indian School Research Pages http://www.epix.net/~landis Tel: 717.418.2158 (cell) --------- "RE: Rustywire: She was Seneca" --------- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 12:44:54 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="RUSTYWIRE: SENECA" http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1574/love/seneca.html She was Seneca by Johnny Rustywire She was Seneca The leaves of were falling from the trees, large oak and maple trees on a college campus. It was the beginning of a new semester, a large university nestled against the Rocky Mountains. Autumn time and new beginnings. One of those there had showed up and moved into the college dorms a week before school was too start, his trunk from boarding school days dragged from the Trailways bus station carrying all his possessions. The first days were spent wondering looking for work, finding a job as a short order cook making salad entries for the school cafeteria. Orientation it was called where they took the incoming freshman and put them in a big assembly hall, and spoke to them 300 at a time. He found his roommate was from Wolf Point, Montana, a Lakota who like to play ball. They found themselves sitting in the middle of these masses of students, most were from upper middle class homes with pale skin who seemed to be bored with the whole thing. For these two Indian boys, one from Four Corners it was something new, a step far from their own reservation life. It was a time of awakening, a time to see the world and to experience life, thoughts, ideas and people who were looking to learn like them. As they sat in the assembly hall, they were told they would break into small groups for tours of the campus and they filed out. A few rows behind them, someone threw paper wads at them and they turned to see some Skins, from somewhere, some other reservation, or looked to be Indian like them. There were four of them and they smiled slyly at these two new freshman. As they left to tour the campus, they found themselves in the same group with them and learned these girls were Seneca, one was a Patterson, another a Jimerson, and two sisters named Maybee. They said they came from the Finger Lakes, Onondagwa, New York. Their hair was black, and they were slender, they looked more like Italians than Indians one said. They bristled at the thought, saying we are from the First Nations. I am glad to hear you say it, we thought you were some kind of Skins, but the important thing is what do you have to eat. There was this one girl, tall and slender, with an easy smile, who laughed and her eyes twinkled. She walked with long steps and said she had come to school to learn and wanted to see the west. We can show you all there is from the mountain over there, pointing to a peak on the East side of the campus, a long thin foot trail looked like a ribbon tying it to the school. Everything you want to see is up there, we can show where we are from, you just have to follow us up there, we can take you there so you can see for yourself. Are you guys from here? No, they said, but were Indians and we can guide you, The girls looked at them suspiciously. If you are worried about us, just remember it is all down hill from there and you can run down anytime you want, but first you have to show us what you have to eat. We haven't had anything to eat for a day, and our funding Hasn't been posted with financial aid so we are living on commodity cheese and crackers. The girls looked at them and spoke among themselves and said, OK, you can eat with us. They all walked down the hill off campus to some apartments, called the Riviera and showed these two where they lived. It was a small place, but the girls could cook. Not just your typical fare, but they had real food and since they were lonely for home, they cooked a lot of stuff. It was the perfect combination, hungry guys and girls who liked to cook. This Jimerson girl, she made hamburger that stood three inches thick filled with spices that were light, just enough to give it a taste they had before. This is not stew and fry bread, no mutton or steamed corn, this was some civilized cooking. Jimerson stood maybe 5'6", she was from Buffalo, but called her home the Finger Lakes. They had turtle shell rattles on the wall and spoke about long houses. These were what the two boys had in mind learning about different people, different tribes who they had never seen before. They found a home away from home with good cooking. On registration day, they all gathered in the field house, where tables were lined up to enroll for classes. One had to run from table to table to sign up, if you were too slow the classes filled up and you had to rearrange your schedule to find an open class. It was every man for himself, there was a lot of pushing and shoving going on. When these Indian kids got there they looked around and said among themselves, I thought this was supposed to be a civilized place as they got in and ran from table to table joining in the fray. The Seneca couldn't get the classes she wanted and wasn't too sure how to fill out the card, one of the guys said, let me show you how it is done, look at mine, see how it is. She looked at it and said I think I know what to do now. The first day of class came along, a running class at 7 in the morning, the kid from Four Corners ran to the field house and started to run, as he was going around the track, the long legged Seneca girl came up beside him and they ran together. It was surprising to him that on a campus with 20, 000 students they had the same class. He could take looking at her face every morning, she had nice eyes and she could run and made no wind. Those Senecas they must run a lot he thought. The class was over and he waited until 9 for American History 170. He found a spot in the middle of the group, and as he sat there someone poked him from behind. He looked around and there she was, sitting behind him. She had changed, she had on, a red and black outfit, she was decked out, not too flashy, somewhat understated in a way, a quiet sophistication. It was a change from the wranglers he was wearing and his worn cowboy boots with the dogger heels. He wore white socks, no one wore white socks in those days, and it was not cool. Jimerson had fixed her hair so that it was just off her neck; she looked like she came out of a magazine. He followed her out of class and walked over to the Science building, he said I can walk you to class he said, Where is it? She looked at him and said, where are you going now, I will walk you to your class she said. He thought, the way you look I would go anywhere with you, and here you are the best-looking girl around, and she wants to walk me to class. He walked slowly to the science building, after all how many times do you get a good looking girl dressed to the 9's on your arm, walking you to class. He took his time, sort of strutting like a peacock. When they got there, she followed him in and said I will sit with you a spell she said; I have time before my next class. She sat next to him and he t hought it was grand. It was near noon and he had a pass for food, since he worked on campus at the cafeteria, he got a to eat at the cafeteria, so he told her come and eat with me. He sat her down at a table and went through the line taking double helpings of everything and brought it back to her. He was broke, but he shared what he had with her. As she ate he noticed her eyes twinkled when the sun shined through the glass, her lips were full and she the blackest hair he had ever seen. They sat and ate and she told him about her family, the places she had known as a child, the reservation in New York and how the women have a solid place in the handling of tribal affairs and the home. She told him about the way they do things and how her mother had taught her to cook. As lunch ended he said I have an English class and said I think we better go. They walked across campus, the grass was green, soft to walk on, and the large elm trees were shedding their leaves. She took his arm as they walked. It was grand that walk across the quad. She poked him the ribs as she said I will see you later and then he went inside. It was an easygoing class, a lot of students, but the professor had a way of making you feel that he was talking just to you. He gave them idea of what to expect in class and that he wanted them to write, write and write some more. It was an amphitheater, a semi circle and as class ended he turned to walk up and out of the room. He glanced to see in the corner, that one, who dropped him off, was getting up to leave too. Whoa, what's going on here, this was too weird. He made his way to her outside and she looked at him with down cast eyes. She said I couldn't figure out how to work the schedule, so I copied yours. I have all the same classes you do. She looked at him with soulful eyes. He stood there thinking about all the girls there were on campus, the chance to meet many of them, to date as many as he could, to experience new things. This was like almost being married he thought, it is too much. It must have showed on his face, because she could see it. She walked away and left him standing there. He didn't know what to do, if he went after her it would mean they were tied together in a way that he was wanting to do, he was young, single and wanted to taste all the college life had to offer. In another way, she was far from home and not sure of what campus life was like and had taken the easy way by just copying his class schedule. It was nothing more than that. If it was his sister he would want someone to help out, but more so she was something a little more than that. He thought for minute and went after her. It was for him a look at a different people, a chance to widen his little world and gave him some idea of what two people can learn about each other. The snow fell later in fall, and the walks to class turned to walks on campus. A cheap date back then was to go to the student union building, it was five stories tall. The stairway was large and open, the snack shop was nearby and one could buy an ice cream cone and go into the stairway. It was a tradition on campus for aspiring singers to go to the top of the stairway and sing acapella. Some of those kids could really sing. You could sit with your date and listen to the songs, some of those were pretty good songs, a lot of Carpenters music that made for slow dancing in the stairwell. All in all it was an interesting time. At the end the semester her mother passed away and she went home and never came back. She was a Seneca from the Finger Lakes and her three inch hamburgers were the best in the world. Copyright c. 1999, Johnny Rustywire, all rights reserved. --------- "RE: Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days" --------- Date: Monday, November 22, 2004 01:18 am From: Debbie Sanders Subj: Book of Days A HAWAI`I BOOK OF DAYS, week of November 29-December 5 NOWEMAPA November Welehu 29 Time is merciful to those who do not worship it. 30 Be as young as you feel in your dreams. KEKEMAPA December Makali`i December was the time when the trailing plants died and the Kona wind from the south prevailed. 1 May your spirit be filled with song and laughter. 2 The stars shine more brightly at this time of year. 3 Weave the pattern of life into your every creation. 4 In simplicity, we can find the solutions to our most complex riddles. 5 Lava steams and crackles as it pours into the churning ocean -- the marriage of fire and water. (c) Copyright 1991 by D. F. Sanders Me ke aloha i ka nani, ... Moe'uhanekeanuenue (With love and beauty, ... Rainbow Dream) --------- "RE: Hawkdancer Poem: Thankful" --------- Date: Sunday, November 28, 2004 6:08 PM From: Charles Hawkdancer Myrick [Drakemage@AOL.COM] Subj: poem: thankfull Mailing List: INDIAN-HERITAGE-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Siyo nigada (hello everyone) hope you all had a great thanksgiving I had a good one. I wrote this one while I was stuffed with good ham and was sleepy I hope you like it. Hawkdancer of the AniKawi (`\o/`) Tsalagi ale utlvquodi vhnai nasgi (Cherokee and proud of it) ======================== Thankful By: Hawkdancer Thankful be thankful for life. Be thankful for joy. Be thankful for the smile of a little one. Be thankful for love. Be thankful of the love of a friend. Be thankful of the trust of another. Be thankful of a good meal. ----------------------------------------------- To contact the list owner, use stephenL@indiana.edu --------- "RE: Upcoming Events" --------- Date: Mon 6 Dec 2004 15:39:14 -0700 From: Gary Smith (gars@speakeasy.org) Subj: Upcoming Events =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= EVENTS ARE FEATURED IN ODD NUMBERED ISSUES ONLY =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Events are too numerous to list for the entire year and are updated periodically. Feb. 13, 2005 Guntersville, AL 5th Native American Gathering Celebration and Dance Guntersville Recreation Center 1500 Sunset Drive Guntersville, AL. Feb.13,2005 Time 11:00 AM to 4;00 PM Doors open .....10:00 AM All drums,singers and Dancers Welcome Public Invited Admission Free... Donations will be accepted for this event. Please bring covered dish of food to share for meal Lunch served @ 2:00 PM For more information Contact Maybelle Johnson-BlackBear or Elder Nick BlackBear @ 256-637-4640 ________________________________________________________ April 01- 02- 03, 2005 Moulton, AL Cherokee River Indian Community Moulton, AL. Kent Ware, Sr. Memorial Indian Festival & Homecoming April 1st through 3rd , 2005 Admission.... $3.00 per day or $5.00 per weekend. All dancers with or in regalia ...Free Children under 12 years of age ..Free Seniors 65 and older .. Free Handicapped ....Free All dancers, Drums, Singers, Veterans, and Youth groups, and the general public is invited. All mental health consumers and their families are especially invited to visit our "HCWC" booth For more information contact; Scott Johannes @ cwylover@yahoo.com or 256-292-3584 other contacts: 256-292-3423. 256-566-3973 0r 256-566-3818 Number of vendors -----20 Number of food booths...2 All vendors please call, write, or e-mail for applications e-mail cwylover@yahoo.com Fax 256-292-3470 phone 256-292-3584 address; CRIC, 1050 County Road 67 : Moulton, AL 35650 =================================== Andersons-web.com http://andersons-web.com/native_events.htm Updated November 27, 2004 January 14 -16, 2005: The 1st Annual Tennessee American Indian WinterFest & Powwow by NAIA in Shelbyville, Tennessee at the Calsonic Indoor Arena. For more information visit the web site at: http://tennesseewinterfestpowwow.gem-of-r.com You can e-mail: tuhaniesa@charter.net July 6 - 9, 2005: National Powwow 13 Vermillion County Fairgrounds Danville, Illinois. See the web site at: http://www.nationalpowwow.com 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 November 27, 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. DECEMBER 2004 December 4th, 2004: Celebrating Sobriety Stickgame Tourney Location: Two Eagle Gymnasium, Box 160, Pablo, MT 59855 Event Detail: $500 first place guarentee. $50 entry fee. 3-5 man team. Registration starts at 10:00.am. Tourney begins at 11:00. Double elimination. All Proceeds made at this event during the tourney thru concession sales goes to the 2nd Annual Eagle Plume Cultural Club Celebration that will be held in June of 2005. All events sponsored by the E.P.C.C. are drugs and alcohol free. Contact: Aggie Incashola, Phone: 406-675-0696, Email: montanarezgirl@hotmail.com December 4, 2004: Three Rivers Lodge Peewee Powwow Location: Boys and Girls Club, 545 W. Alameda St, Manteca, CA 95336 Event Detail: Children's Health Faire- Nutrition, Lead Poisoning, Denistry, BloodSource Sacramento - Bone Marrow Drive. Free Event! 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. For Kids by Kids! Everyone Welcome! Contact: Ramona Valadez, phone: 209-858-2421, email: mona3riverslodge@aol.com December 4, 2004: Oklahoma State University Native American Student Association Fall Pow Wow Location: Wes Watkins Center for International Trade Development Building (Corner of Hall of Fame & Washington Streets), Stillwater, OK Event Detail: MC: Archie Mason, Osage/Cherokee Tulsa, OK Head Singer: Hyde Toppah, Kiowa, Weatherford, OK HMD: Joseph Jones, Kaw, Pawnee, OK HLD: Jessica Moore, Osage/Otoe/Pawnee Fairfax, OK Head Gourd Dancer: Edward Yellowfish, Comanche/Otoe Oklahoma City, OK AD: Dude Blaylock, Peoria, Miami, OK Evening Program: Gourd Dancing 3:00 PM Supper: 5:00 PM Gourd Dancing:6:00 PM Grand Entry: 7:00 PM The 2004-2005 OSU NASA Princess will be crowned. $25 Arts & Crafts Vendor Booth Space - call to reserve space. Everyone Welcome! Contact: Multicultural Student Center, phone: 405-744-5481, email: pg.coser@okstate.edu December 4-5: 17th North American Native Art Festival Location: Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Center, 1607 East Hastings Street (at Commercial Drive), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Event Detail: Annual festival celebrating Native art. 40 booths: carvings, gold, silver, turquoise jewelry, Cowichan Indian Sweaters, beadwork, Ecquadorian clothing and blankets, carving knives, moose tuft art, t-shirts, native designed clothing, prints, paintings and more!! Performances every half hour. Native foods: smoked salmon and baked salmon dinners; Indian tacos, clam chowder. Table fees: $100 for both days. No one dayers. A great event with a wonderful community feel. Admission $1. Contact: Kat, phone: 604-253-1020, email: katnorris@hotmail.com December 10-12, 2004: Third Annual NHGI Melbourne PowWow Location: Wickham Park Pavilion, Melbourne, FL 32953 Event Detail: Powwow location at Wickham Park Pavilion Melbourne Florida, adjacent to the Brevard Community College Melbourne Campus on Wickham and Post Roads. We are very thankful survivors of the hurricanes and look forward to sharing our thanks this year at the Melbourne Powwow- come out and dance! Contact: Martha PessaroPhone: 321-452-1671, Email: tigerlily1953@aol.com December 11: Red River Winter Powwow Location: Caldwell High School, 3401 S. Indiana, Caldwell, ID, 83605 Event Detail: 2nd Annual Winter Pow Wow at the new Caldwell High School. All dancers and drummers welcome. Dance competition and story telling competition. Andre Picard Jr Floor Manager - Lapwai, ID Ray McConville MC - Boise, ID Contact: Ron Sam, phone: 208-455-7584, email: smokecreeksam@aol.net December 11, 2004: Cherokee Gourd Society 13th Annual Christmas Dance Location: Tahlequah Community Building, Tahlequah, OK Event Detail: Gourd Dance - 2:00p.m. Supper Break - 5:00p.m. Gourd Dance - 6:00p.m. Grand Entry - 7:00p.m. Head Staff Host Drum: Bear Claw Singers, Dallas, Texas Head Man Dancer: Scott Ennis, Muskogee, Oklahoma Head Lady Dancer: Stella Walema, Tahlequah, Oklahoma Head Gourd Dancer: Gary Grammer, Fayetteville, Arkansas MC: Jake Chanate, Tahlequah, Oklahoma AD: Cherokee Gourd Society Members Color Guard: Cherokee Color Guard 2004-2005 Cherokee Gourd Society Princess Vanessa R. John **Raffles**50/50**Cake Walk **SANTA CLAUS** And much more! Contact: Vendor Information: Tina Stroud (918) 458 -1110 Powwow Information: Don Stroud (918) 456-3637 Frank Squirrel (479) 846-3880 Smokie Gwoompi (918) 456-2599 December 31, 2004: New Year's Eve Sobriety Pow Wow Location: Sault Ste. Marie, MI Contact: Bud Biron, phone: 906-635-4755 JANUARY 2005 native american indian powwow calendar list January 7-9, 2005: Red Paint Powwow Location: Silver City, New Mexico Event Detail: Native Dancers, Drummers, and vendors. Contact: Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce, phone: 505-538-3785, email: info@silvercity.org January 7-9, 2005: Ormond Beach Native American Festival Location: Rockefeller Gardens, 25 Riverside Dr, Ormond Beach, FL Event Detail: Wildlife exhibits, Native American music, cuisine, crafts, skills. $5 adults, $3 seniors and children ages 4-12. Contact: phone: 386-676-3216 January 8, 2005: OKC Powwow Club New Years Dance Location: Kitchens of America Building OKC Fiargrounds, NW 10TH & May, OKC, OK Event Detail: MC- Hammond Motah, HS- Arlen Goodfox, HM- Joe Fish Dupont, HG- Mike Bohay, HL- Toni Tsatoke, AD- Mark Wilson & Cletus Gaton, Honoree- Leonard Cozad Sr. Mens Straight Dance Contest-1ST 300 2ND 200 3RD 100, Womens Cloth Contest- 1ST 300 2ND 200 3rd 100. Contests Sponsored by:Men-Roy Dean Bullcoming, Womens By HL Toni Tsatoke. Contact: RANDY FRAZIER, phone: 405 949-0922, email: Dmurrow@putnamcityschools.org January 14, 2005: 11th Annual Benefit Pow Wow Location: Greenville High School, Greenville, TX 75402 Event Detail: 1p & 6p Gourd Dance, 7:30 Grand Entry. Doors open at Noon Free Admission All Drums Welcome! Funds raised for scholarships. Contact: phone: 903-457-2589, e-mail: shackelr@greenville.ednet10.net January 14-16, 2005: Bearspaw First Nation Pow-wow Location: Bearspaw Equestrian Centre, Morley, Alberta, Canada Event Detail: MC- Vince Beyl - Bemidji, Minnesota, Jonathan Windyboy - Rocky Boy, Montana Contact: Rod Hunter, phone: 403-881-0023, email: eyahey@telusplanet.net January 15, 2005: Texas Indian Hobbyist Association (TIHA) Annual Winter Meeting/Powwow Location: Galloway Hammond Recreation Center, Burnet, TX Contact: David, phone: 936-653-3116 January 15, 2005: 5th Annual Morning Star Celebration Benefit Pow Wow Location: John Carroll School, 703 Churchville Rd, Bel Air, MD 21014 Event Detail: The 5th annual Morning Star Pow Wow will again feature representatives from St Labre. Doors open at 11 AM and Grand Entry is at 1 PM. Gourd Dancing at 12:30 PM. Feed for all dancers at 4 PM, followed by evening dancing. Contact: Gary Scholl, phone: 410-838-8333 ex 2002, email: glsjcs@yahoo.com January 19, 2005: Native Youth Alliance Presidential Inaugural Pow Wow Location: Washington, DC Event Detail: Initiated in 1997, this event is held on or near January 19th every year as a time to honor our Elders and remember those who have passed away. Every fourth year it is held as the Inaugural Pow Wow to pray for the incoming Presidential Administration. Our gathering reminds them that whatever changes the government goes through, the indigenous peoples remain strong and our traditional ways continue. Grand entry 1pm & 7 pm (held in conjunction with the NYA National Native Youth Conference, Jan 15-21). Contact: 928-542-0007, email nya_dc@hotmail.com Event Website January 22, 2005: Thunderbird Indian Dancers Powwow Location: Winston Prep School, New York, NY Contact: phone:201-587-9633 January 28, 2005: 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 ========================================================================== Aboriginal Multi-Media Society Updated November 27, 2004 Aboriginal Community Events Listing http://www.ammsa.com/ammsaevents.html DECEMBER 2004 December 6 - 7, 2004 InSight: Aboriginal Gaming & Tourism Development Forum Calgary, Alberta 1-888-777-1707 December 31, 2004 & January 1, 2005 New Years Pow Wow Leech Lake Tribal College Cass Lake, Minnesota 1 (800) 442-3642 (218) 335-7400 JANUARY 2005 January 14 - 16, 2005 1st Annual Tennessee American Indian WinterFest & Powwow Sponsored by the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee (NAIA) Location: Calsonic Indoor Arena Shelbyville, Tennessee Contest including Drum Contest Concert Equine Presentation Contact: Barbara Burch: tuhaniesa@charter.net Web-site: tennesseewinterfestpowwow January 14 - 16, 2005 Bearspaw First Nation Pow-Wow 2005 Bearspaw Equestrian Centre Morley, Alberta, Canada Master of Ceremonies: Vince Beyl - Bemidji, Minnesota Jonathan Windyboy - Rocky Boy, Montana Info: Rod Hunter - (403) 881 - 0023 EMAIL: eyahey@telusplanet.net Gavin Ear - (403) 881 - 2731 EMAIL: gavine@stoney-nation.com ========================================================================== Whispering Winds Updated November 27, 2004 A Magazine of American Indian Crafts*Material Culture*Powwow http://www.whisperingwind.com/ DECEMBER 2004 * 10-12 29 Palms Annual Powwow. Trump 29 Casino, Indio, CA. Info: (760) 775-3239. * 10-12 Third Annual Melbourne Powwow. Melbourne, FL. Wickham Park Pavilion. Info: (321)259-7697,(321) 452-1671,(321) 242-6794. * 18 Thunderbird Indian Dancers Powwow. American Indian Community House, New York, NY. Info: (201) 587-9633. * 31-Jan 1 New Year Eve Red Road Powwow. Fresno, CA. Info: 252-5689 JANUARY 2005 * 14-16 Bearspaw First Nation Pow-wow 2005. Bearspaw Equestrian Centre, Morley, Alberta, Canada. Info: Rod Hunter - (403) 881 - 0023 EMAIL: eyahey@telusplanet.net * 15 11th Annual Bneefit Powwoow. Greenville High School Gym, Greenville, TX 75402. Info: (903) 457-2589. * 15 Morning Star Celebration, A Benefit Powoww for St Labre Indian School. John Carroll School, Bel Air, MD. Info: 410-838-8333 x2002. Vendors call 410-885-2800 * 15 Texas Indian Hobbyist Association Powwow. Galloway Hammond Recreation Center, Burnet, TX. Info: David 936-653-3116 * CANCELLED 15-16 1st Annual Tennessee American Indian WinterFest & Powwow Shelbyville, TN, Calsonic Indoor Arena. Info: Barbara Burch tuhaniesa@charter.net * 22 Thunderbird Indian Dancers Powwow. Winston Prep School, New York, NY. Info: (201) 587-9633. ========================================================================== Char-Koosta News Updated November 27, 2004 The official news publication of the Flathead Indian Nation http://www.charkoosta.com/ DEC. 11, 2004 2nd Annual Winter Powwow Caldwell High School Caldwell, ID 208/455-7584, 208/989-4334 Smokecreeksam@aol.net jvstockton@cableone.net FEB. 19 and 20, 2005 International Peace Powwow 2005 Enmax Centre Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 403/327-6807 blackfoot_ccs@hotmail.com FEB. and 27, 2005 Circle of Hope PowWow West Plains Civic Center West Plains, Missouri 417/255-2232 PowWow@amonsoquath.net www.amonsoquath.net/powwow.html MARCH 12 and 13, 2005 35th Annual Powwow California State University Long Beach, CA 562/985-4963 csulb_powwow@hotmail.com daf.csulb.edu/maps/ APRIL 16 and 17, 2005 30th Annual Pah-Loots-Pu Celebration Washington State University Beasley Coliseum Pullman, WA 509/335-8676 naschome@wsunix.wsu.edu APRIL 23 and 24, 2005 Native Solutions 7th Annual Intertribal Powwow Oxford Lake Park Oxford, AL 256/835-0110, 256/820-6315 ravenspiritwalker@yahoo.com thunderhawk2062@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//- Notice of Copyright Clearance by Contributors: The following have granted permission for their original articles to be reposted in order to help mend the Sacred Hoop: Frosty Deere, Gary Smith, Johnnie Rustywire, Thomas R. Speer, M J LaBurt, Charles Hawkdancer Myrick, Janet Smith, Debbie Sanders, Barbara Landis --//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//--//- _ __ __ _ / | / /___ _/ /_(_) __ __ / |/ / __ \ __/ / | / / _ \ / /| / /_/ / /_/ /| |/ / __/ /_/ |_/\__,_/\__/_/ |___/\___/ ______ _ / ____/____ ___ __________(_)___ ____ _____ / / / ___/ __ \/ ___/ ___/ / __ \/ __ \/ ___/ / /___/ / / /_/ /__ /__ / / / / / /_/ /__ / \____/_/ \____/____/____/_/_/ /_/\__, /____/ Volume 12, Issue 049 /____/ December 4, 2004 Native Crossings (c) is a separately emailed suppliment to Wotanging Ikche (c) Native American News (c) dedicated to the memory of those in Indian Country who have begun their spirit journeys It may be subscribed to via email by sending a request from your own internet addressable account to gars@speakeasy.org <================<<<< >>>>================> This newsletter is produced in straight ASCII text for greatest portability across platforms. 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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: Roy Thomas" --------- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:22:43 -0700 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="ROY THOMAS" http://www.theglobeandmail.com//OBTHOMAS23/TPObituaries/?query=thomas ROY THOMAS, ABORIGINAL ARTIST: 1950-2004 Born on a trap line, he overcame drug and alcohol addiction by committing himself to art and to his culture Canadian Press November 23, 2004 THUNDER BAY, ONT. - Roy Thomas was an influential aboriginal artist known for his distinctive paintings of vibrantly coloured, totemic animals. He painted in the Ojibwa woodland style, which uses symbolism and imagery inspired by aboriginal legends and pictographs. Along with such artists as Norval Morrisseau, he was at the forefront when aboriginal art entered the mainstream in the late 1960s. His paintings have been exhibited at he National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Civilization and the Art Gallery of Ontario. "I think for a lot of people, it was very easy to relate to his artwork, " said James Stevens, who collaborated with Mr. Thomas on his biography, The Spirit of Ahnishnabae Art. "His paintings were very colourful, the lines were very carefully applied." Mr. Thomas was born on a trap line northeast of Thunder Bay, and grew up on the Longlac reserve. Painting was a lifelong passion and his influence can be seen in the work of countless aboriginal artists. "Maybe his most important contribution was his mentorship of younger artists and students," said Sharon Godwin, director of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. "He was really committed to doing that." At the same time, Mr. Thomas was able to reach people regardless of their background. "I think his contribution really was that his art helped two cultures gain a further understanding of themselves," Mr. Stevens said. "He helped people from western society understand the values and philosophy on the aboriginal side." Mr. Thomas struggled with drug and alcohol addiction in his younger days but overcame them by committing himself more deeply to his art and his culture. His wife of 19 years, Louise Thomas, remembers him as a man who loved his community, profoundly respected the elders, and laughed from his heart. "He was a happy person, a positive person," she said. "He was a loving man." Roy Thomas was born in Caramat, Ont., in 1950. He died Nov. 13 in Thunder Bay of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. He was 54. A memorial was held Friday at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Copyright c. 2004 Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved. --------- "RE: Claudeen Bates Arthur" --------- Date: Sunday, November 28, 2004 8:44 PM To: pr@ap.org Subj: Speaker's statement on the passing of Chief Justice Navajo Nation Council Office of the Speaker Contact: Karen Francis, Public Information Officer (928) 871-6384 karenfrancis@navajo.org http://www.navajonationcouncil.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Sunday, November 28, 2004 Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan issued the following statement regarding the passing of the Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation Claudeen Bates Arthur: The Navajo Nation has lost one of our most outstanding citizens and public servants - Ms. Claudeen Bates Arthur. Ms. Bates Arthur had a long and distinguished career serving the Navajo people. She served as Chief Legislative Counsel (1989-1995) and Attorney General (1983-1987) - the two highest lawyer positions with the tribe. She was also the first woman Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation and the first woman Branch Chief - heading up the largest tribal judicial system in the United States. Ms. Bates Arthur had a definite vision for the direction she wanted to take the Navajo judicial system. Many of us were impressed with Ms. Bates Arthur's enthusiasm for her work and for her commitment to enhancing Navajo sovereignty through tribal courts. Ms. Bates Arthur advocated for the inclusion of Navajo values in the court system to meet the challenges that we on the Navajo Nation face. Ms. Bates Arthur represented the Navajo Nation in a suit against the federal government that went before the United States Supreme Court. Because the federal Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Navajo Nation, many millions of dollars were paid back to the Navajo Nation for lands that were taken without the consent of the tribe. Ms. Bates Arthur scarcely had a year to fulfill her vision as Chief Justice, but her legacy will continue. Many others will take up the fight for Navajo sovereignty that she worked so hard to advance. Her example as a public servant will influence generations to come. On behalf of the Navajo Nation Council and the Legislative Branch, we offer our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family and loved ones of a very remarkable woman - Ms. Claudeen Bates Arthur. --------- "RE: Crossings" --------- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:10:52 -0600 From: Gary Smith Subj: NA News Item - - - - - - -- - - - - - - filename="CROSSINGS" November 23, 2004 Irene Locklear ROWLAND - Mrs. Irene Locklear, 82, of 4448 Cabinet Shop Road, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, in Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton. Services: Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Beulah Baptist Church. Burial in church cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 tonight at Locklear & Son Funeral Home in Pembroke. Survived by: Sons, Welton and Dwight; brothers, Frank Lowery Jr., Henry Lowery and Sam Lowery; sisters, Frances Revels, Annie Bell, Bessie Carter, Cozy Carter, Barbara Johnson and Louise; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. November 27, 2004 Michelle M. Locklear COSTA MESA, Calif. - Miss Michelle Marie Locklear, 28, of 387 W. Ray St., Apartment 17, formerly of Lumberton, N.C., died Friday, Nov. 19, 2004. Services: Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday in Elizabeth Heights Baptist Church in Lumberton. Burial in Robeson Memorial Park in Lumberton. Visitation: 7 to 9 tonight at Revels Funeral Home in Lumberton. Survived by: Father, Michael; and sisters, Jacqueline Oxendine, Cynthia and Dana. Bill R. Locklear MAXTON - Bill R. "Lumpin" Locklear, 72, of Maxton, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, in his home. Mr. Locklear was an Army veteran. Services: Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Friendship Baptist Church. Burial in church cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 tonight at Thompson's Funeral Home in Pembroke and at other times at the home. Survived by: Daughters, Connie Jones and Marlena Moreno-Macias; sister, Myrtle; brothers, William, Dook, Baker and Horace; and two grandsons. Copyright c. 2004 The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer. -=-=-=- November 27, 2004 Winnie Johnson Eisele Cherokee - Winnie Johnson Eisele, 70, of Cherokee, passed away Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at Tsali Care Center. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Moody Funeral Home in Sylva. Copyright c. 2004 Asheville Citizen-Times. -=-=-=- November 27, 2004 Rita J. Johnson Rita J. Johnson, 31, of Cloquet, died Friday, Nov. 26, 2004 in Duluth. She was born Aug. 10, 1973 in Mpls. She graduated from Lake Superior College with a nursing degree. Rita worked as a nurse at the Min-No-Aya- Win Human Services Center on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation. She loved traveling, family gatherings and spending time with her children, nieces and nephews. Rita is survived by her husband, David 'Bucky' Johnson; one son, Dillon Johnson; one daughter, Raven Houle; her mother, Katherine Battees; her father, Sam Staples; three brothers, Anthony 'Tony' (Susan) Battees, Patrick (Sandra) Battees, and Chad Battees; one sister, Cheri Battes; and numerous nieces and nephews. VISITATION:5-7 p.m. Monday, Nov.29, 2004 in Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet. A Native American traditional visitation will be held at the Fond du Lac Tribal Center also on Monday, beginning at 9 p.m. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004 in the Nelson Funeral Care Chapel, conducted by Rev. Rollie Bockbrader. Arrangements are with Nelson Funeral Care of Cloquet. (see online guest book at www.legacy.com) Copyright c. 2004 Duluth News Tribune. -=-=-=- November 24, 2004 Beverly Mae Hagenah Beverly Mae Hagenah, 71, of Cass Lake, died Monday, Nov. 22, 2004, at North Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Cass Lake. A wake will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Veteran's Memorial Building in Cass Lake and will continue until the time of service on Friday at the church. Burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery in Cass Lake under the direction of the Cease Family Funeral Home of Cass Lake. Copyright c. 2004 The Pioneer/Bemidji, MN. -=-=-=- November 26, 2004 Rancee Jo Chaske-Thumb Rancee Jo Chaske-Thumb, Tatanka Kei Mani Win, (She Walks with Buffalo Woman), 14, of Warwick, ND, entered into the Spirit World on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004, at Mercy Hospital in Devils Lake. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Crow Hill Recreation Center, near Ft. Totten, ND with Fr. Paul Ruge and Fr. Charles Leute officiating. Burial will be in St. Jerome's Cemetery, rural Ft. Totten, ND. Music will be from Tony and Vina McDonald and Loretta and Paula Stensland. A wake will be held Friday at the Crow Hill Recreation Center beginning at 5 p.m. with an 8 p.m. Rosary. The procession to the Crow Hill Recreation Center will leave at 4 p.m. Friday from the junction of Highway 281 and the Oberon gravel road. Casket bearers will be Stacy, Marty, Joey and Zack Thumb, Jordan Riggle and Derrick Chaske. Honorary bearers will be Rochelle Quentions, Amber Langstaff, Samantha Littleghost, Latoya Demarce, Feleria Falcon, Marissa Redfox, Latoya Goodbird, Rancee's classmates, teachers, her many friends made throughout her life, the Mercy Hospital Emergency Staff, Devils Lake Ambulance Service and the Ft. Totten Police Department. Rancee Jo was born to Gary Thumb, Jr. and Colleen Chaske on April 18, 1990 in Devils Lake, ND. She attended school at Four Winds in Ft. Totten, the Oberon Public School and was currently in the 8th grade at the Warwick Public School. Rancee enjoyed spending time with family and friends and would get along with everyone she met. She loved all animals, especially her horse. Rancee traveled with her grandparents to youth rodeos and participated in barrel racing. She enjoyed baby sitting, driving vehicles to run errands and being a "mother hen" to her younger siblings and all younger children. Her hobbies included listening to music, swimming, watching movies, dancing, riding horse and taking care of the animals around the farm. Rancee's sense of humor, thoughtfulness and caring will be remembered by all her family and friends. Surviving are her parents, Gary and Colleen of Ft. Totten; brothers: Troyal of Warwick; sisters, Tanisha, Tiana and Taylah Thumb, all of Ft. Totten; half-brother, Rodney Spicer of Grand Forks; paternal grandparents: Gary & Lynette Thumb, Sr. of Warrick and all of Gary's brothers and sisters; Mary (Jay) Dubois-Robertson and all of Mary's brothers and sisters; maternal grandparents, Corrine Chaske and all of her brothers and sisters, John (Mona) Chaske, Sr, Winfield Chaske and Millicent Little; special aunt, Deborah (Tony) LaVallie of Bismarck; aunts, Lisa (Tim) of St. Michael, Joleen (Waylon) of Oberon, Tracy Thumb of Ft. Totten, Sara (Mike) of Fargo; uncles, Stacy Thumb of Fargo and Marty (Sara) Thumb of Grand Forks; special cousins, Jerah Chaske and Waylon St. Claire, Jr. and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Rancee was preceded in death by her grandparents, Doris (Dollie) Thumb, Joseph (Big Joe) Chaske, Jr., Evelyn Chaske, Martin and Florence Thumb, Edwin Dubois, Sr., Joseph Sr. and Marion Chaske and Alma T. Davis; uncle, Troy Keahna and cousin, Merlin Little. Nelson Funeral Home, Minnewaukan, is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 Devils Lake Daily Journal. -=-=-=- November 24, 2004 Chaske-Thumb, Rancee Rancee Jo Chaske-Thumb, 14, Ft. Totten, died Nov. 20, 2004, at a Devils Lake hospital. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, at Crow Hill Recreational Center, Ft. Totten. Further arrangements are pending with Nelson Funeral Home, Minnewaukan. Copyright c. 2004 Bismarck Tribune. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Doyle Clown Eagle Butte - Doyle Clown, 28, of Eagle Butte died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, in Eagle Butte. Arrangements are pending with Oster Funeral Home of Mobridge. Agatha Smith Fort Yates, N.D. - Funeral for Agatha Smith, age 73, of Fort Yates at 10 a.m. on Saturday at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Fort Yates. Burial in the Smith Family Cemetery under direction of Oster Funeral Home. All-night wake service starting at 7 p.m. Friday at the BIA Old School Gym in Fort Yates. Agatha died on Nov. 20, 2004, at MedCenter One in Bismarck, N.D. November 24, 2004 Calvin Garreau Mobridge - Calvin Garreau, 68, Mobridge entered the Spirit World, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at the Beverly Health Care Center, Mobridge. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 26, at the HVJ Cultural Center, Eagle Butte, with Rev. Norman Blue Coat officiating. Burial will be at Black Hills National Cemetery under the directions of Luce Funeral Home, Eagle Butte. A wake service will be held Thursday starting at 6 p.m. at the Cultural Center. Copyright c. 2004 Aberdeen American News. -=-=-=- Welcome to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe/Dakota Nation Sota Iya Ye Yapi On-Line, News from the Lake Traverse Reservation Volume 35, Issue 48 Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Funeral services held for Shirley Duggan Funeral services for Shirley Duggan, 53, of Sisseton, S.D., were held on Saturday, November 27, 2004 at the Tribal community center, Agency Village, with the Rev. Eugene King and Filmore Simon, CLP, officiating. Active pallbearers were Josh Feather, Kevin LaFontaine, Sr., Tom Bartunick, John German, Sr., Gavin Shortman, and William Ryan. Honorary pallbearers were Darlene Pipeboy, Rose Chase, Barbara Ryan, Gail Barse, Myrna German, Ramona Ryan, Fern Backer, Dorthea Wilson, and Caroline Renville. Pianist was Kay Bursheim. Burial is at Goodwill Presbyterian Cemetery, Agency Village. There were wake services Thursday and all-night Friday at the community center. The Cahill Funeral Chapel, Sisseton, was in charge of arrangements. Shirley was born on November 20, 1951 to Earl and Ida Mae (Ryan) Duggan at Sisseton, S.D. Shirley grew up and attended school in Watertown. She attended college in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following her education, Shirley was employed at the Red School House in St. Paul, Minnesota, working as a first grade teacher. In 1998 she returned to Sisseton where she was employed at Dakota Magic Casino. Shirley liked to do beadwork and was very active in the American Indian Movement, having trained in Beirut, Lebanon with the freedom fighters and had also accompanied Ed to East Germany on speaking engagements. Shirley was also a writer, writing a one-act play in which she also performed, and also many editorials which were published in local papers. She passed away suddenly at her home at Agency Village, on November 23, 2004. Shirley is survived by husband, Ed Godfrey of Agency Village; four children - Thomas Cotton of Florida, Earlina Cotton of St. Paul, Minn., Adelia Godfrey and Lydia Godfrey of Agency Village; three step-children - Carrie Godfrey-Chavez of Sisseton, Dawn Godfrey of Lincoln, Neb., and Bruce Godfrey of Sisseton; three sisters - Joan Feather of Peever, Sandy LaBatte-Jones of St. Paul, Minn., and Barbara Duggan of Illinois; three brothers - Lyle Duggan of Duluth, Minn., and Dino LaBatte of St. Paul, Minn., and Robert "Bobby" Duggan of California; and three grandchildren. Shirley was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Phyllis and Diane, two brothers, Earl, Jr. and Charles. Copyright c. 1999-2003 by C. D. Floro/Earth and Sky Enterprises. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Agatha Smith FORT YATES, N.D. - Agatha Smith, 73, Fort Yates, died Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004, at Med Center One in Bismarck. An all-night wake will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, at the BIA Old School Gym in Fort Yates. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Fort Yates, with the Rev. Bill Cosgrove and Brother George Maufort officiating. Burial will be at Smith Family Cemetery. Oster Funeral Home of Mobridge, S.D., is in charge of arrangements. November 24, 2004 Emmett American Horse KYLE - Emmett American Horse, 65, Kyle, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at Scottsbluff Regional West Hospital in Scottsbluff, Neb. He served in the U. S. Air Force. Survivors include three sons, Clifton American Horse and Forrest American Horse both of Kyle, and Gary American Horse, Tulsa, Okla.; three daughters, Ethel Means, Porcupine, Ramona Rowland, Wounded Knee, and Lucille Bull Bear, Kyle; four brothers, Joe American Horse, Oglala, Vern American Horse, Gordon, Neb., Scott American Horse, Pine Ridge, and Dave American Horse, Chadron, Neb.; and 18 grandchildren. A first-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. today at the Emmett American Horse residence in Kyle. A second-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, at Little Wound School in Kyle. A third-night wake will begin at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, at Native American Church in Potato Creek. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, at the church, with the Rev. Barney Iron Shell officiating. Burial will be at Native American Church Cemetery in Potato Creek. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Ed Cuny Sr. MANDERSON - Ed Cuny Sr., 45, Manderson, died Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, in Rapid City. Survivors include two sons, Ed Cuny Jr. and Jeremiah Cuny, both of Oelrichs; two stepsons, J. Lee Big Crow, Pine Ridge, and Coy Big Crow, Rapid City; one stepdaughter, Marnell Big Crow, Germany; one brother, Chris Cuny, Manderson; and two sisters, Tuesday Cuny, Rapid City, and Carmen Yellow Horse, Red Shirt. A one-night wake will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, at Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 26, at Billy Mills Hall, with the Rev. Steve Sanford officiating. Burial will be at St. Paul's Catholic Cemetery in Porcupine. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. November 25, 2004 Jeremiah M. Archuleta PINE RIDGE - Jeremiah M. Archuleta, infant, Pine Ridge, died Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004, in Pine Ridge. Survivors include his parents, Ronald Archuleta and Rebecca A. Lewis, Pine Ridge; two brothers, Joshua Archuleta and Brandon Briseno, both of Pine Ridge; one sister, Brianna Briseno, Pine Ridge; his paternal grandparents, Ronald and Joy Bush, Porcupine; and his maternal grandparents, Joyce and Manuel Lewis, Pine Ridge. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Hall in Pine Ridge, with Charles McGaa officiating and traditional Lakota services by Rick Two Dogs. Burial will be at Holy Rosary Mission Catholic Cemetery in Pine Ridge. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements. Doyle Clown EAGLE BUTTE - Doyle Clown, 28, Eagle Butte, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, in Eagle Butte. An all-night wake will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, at H.V. Johnston Cultural Center in Eagle Butte. Family and friends will gather at the four-mile junction at 4 p.m. Sunday to follow in procession. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 29, at the cultural center, with the Rev. Norman Blue Coat, Deacon Dora Bruguier, Deacon Ted Knife and Deacon Byron Buffalo officiating. Burial will be at Upper Cheyenne Congregational Cemetery in Bridger. Oster Funeral Home of Mobridge is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 the Rapid City Journal. -=-=-=- November 25, 2004 Dollie Rhodd Thompson TONKAWA - Dollie Rhodd Thompson, resident of Tonkawa, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, at Integris Blackwell Regional Hospital in Blackwell. She was 94. A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26 in the chapel of the Dugger Funeral Home in Tonkawa with Rev. Tony Cerre officiating. Dollie Rhodd Thompson was born Dec. 29, 1909, in Pawnee to Enos and Lucy Collins Rhodd. She enjoyed her family, cooking, reading and working in her garden. She as the oldest elder of the Ponca Tribe and a member of the Catholic Church. She is survived by three sons, Theodore Thompson, Sr., Theodore Thompson, Jr. and Thurman Thompson, all of Tonkawa; and one daughter, Lucille Thompson Newrider of Tulsa. She was preceded in death by her husband Easis Thompson; her parents; two brothers; and two sisters. November 26, 2004 Antoine Smith Antoine Smith, 64, of Midwest City, passed away on Nov. 25, 2004, after prolonged health problems. Antoine was born May 23, 1940, in the White Eagle Community. Antoine was a proud member of the Ponca tribe. Due to injuries he sustained in a car wreck, he spent the last years of his life in the Colonial Nursing Home in Midwest City. He was the son of Gladys Smith. The family wants to acknowledge and give much thanks to John and Sharon Flower. Their kindness and unfailing support helped make Antoine's life a little brighter. There is another special friend the family wants to thank - Johnny Kemble, who always visited Antoine on a regular basis. Antoine is survived by one aunt, Thelma Perez of Oklahoma City; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Brenda Smith of Ponca City and Amelia and Eli Warrior of Oklahoma City; and a host of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother, grandparents, aunt, uncle and two sisters. The casket bearers will be Antoine's nephews. The traditional Indian feast will be held Sunday, Nov. 28 at noon at the Ponca Indian United Methodist Church with services immediately following. Burial will be in the Ponca Indian Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel. Copyright c. 1998-2004 The Ponca City News. -=-=-=- November 28, 2004 Wilma J. Sweezy EL RENO - Funeral for Wilma J. Sweezy, 59, El Reno, wil be at 2 p.m. Saturday at El Reno Indian Baptist Church with Gerald Watson, pastor, officiating. Wake service will be at 7 p.m. today at the church. Mrs. Sweezy died Monday, Nov. 22, 2004, at an Oklahoma City medical center. Burial will be at Concho Cemetery under direction of Comanche Nation Funeral Home. She was born April 26, 1945, to Ralph Beard and Maggie LoneLodge. Survivors include two daughters: Carmen Sweezy, Oklahoma City; and Sylvia Van Arsdale, Arkansas; four sons: Robert and Frederick, both of Oklahoma City; Alfred, El Reno; and Anthony, Lawton; 14 grandchildren: Justin Ruff, Jason Ruff, Benjamin Ruff, Constance Van Horn, Mikayla Black Eagle, Matthew Sweezy, Dylan Sweezy, Robert Sweezy Jr., Brenda Kay Sweezy, Sunda Lee Sweezy, Andre Lee Sweezy, Alvin Berryhill, Chantal Two Hatchet, Veronica Van Arsdale; two brothers:Gary and Steve Dawes; several friends; and many other family members. She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Verla Dawes; her husband, Fred Sweezy; and a daughter, Brenda Kay Sweezy. Copyright c. 2004 The Lawton Constitution. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Dan Joe Benally Upper Fruitland May 16, 1962-Nov. 18, 2004 Rev. Dan Joe Benally, 42, of Upper Fruitland, passed from this life to be with his Lord on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004, in Farmington. Dan was born May 16, 1962, to Joe and Alice Benally in Upper Fruitland. Dan was a pastor of the Church of the Redeemed in Upper Fruitland. He started his pastoral ministry in 1997. He attended Kirtland High School and was employed with BHP for many years. Dan was a veteran serving in the United States Marine Corps. Dan is survived by his wife, Emmeline Benally; parents Joe and Alice Benally; son Joshua Ryan Benally; daughters Jacina Danielle Benally, Donna Lynn Benally, Dana Lee Benally, and Dinah Joe Benally; brothers Harold Benally and wife Patricia, Donald Harrison and wife Delfina, and Earl Whitey and wife Matilda; sister Elsie Begay of Las Vegas, Nev.; nieces and nephews Rachelle Howard, Darryl Benally, Kevin Benally, Francesca Benally and Kyle Benally. He was preceded in death by his grandfather Moncisco Begay. Service will be at 10 a.m., today, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, at the First Baptist Church of Kirtland with the Rev. Doyle Hales officiating. He will then be laid to rest at the Moncisco Cemetery in Upper Fruitland. Pallbearers are Donald B. Harrison, Darryl F. Benally, Kevin Benally, Joshua Benally, Edwin Edward and Nate Howard. Arrangements have been entrusted to Chapel of Memories Funeral Home, 458 County Road 6100, Kirtland, NM (505) 598-9636. Darrell Lee Charley Bloomfield Jan. 18, 1963 - Nov. 22, 2004 Our beloved Darrell Lee Charley, 41, of Bloomfield, passed from this life Monday, Nov. 22, 2004. He was born Jan. 18, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Funeral services are pending with Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home of Shiprock, (505) 368-4607. Alice McCabe Fruitland Jan. 12, 1921 - Nov. 19, 2004 Alice McCabe, 83, of Fruitland, passed away Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, at her daughter's residence in Fruitland. She was born Jan. 12, 1921, in Ganado, Ariz. Visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, at Cope Memorial Chapel of Farmington. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m., Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004, at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Parker, Ariz. Burial will be at Parker Cemetery in Parker, Ariz. Arrangements are entrusted to Cope Memorial Chapel of Farmington, 404 W. Arrington St., (505) 327-5142. November 27, 2004 Darrell Lee Charley Bloomfield Jan. 18, 1963 - Nov. 22, 2004 The Great Spirit has called our Nali/Chaii, father, brother, uncle and son, Darrell Lee Charley, home. He is of the Hooghan tani (Many Hogans Clan) and born for the Tachii'nli (Red Running Into the Water People Clan), maternal grandfather is of the Honaghaahnii (One-Who-Walks-Around Clan), and paternal grandfather is NaaKaidinee (the Mexican Clan). Darrell, 41, was born Jan. 18, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, to Mary E. Charley of Farmington and Larry Charley of Bloomfield. Darrell is survived by his son, Brandon Mathew Charley; daughter-in-law Andrea Toledo; grandson Mathew Ryan Charley of Bloomfield; brothers Larrial Charley of Farmington, Levi Charley and wife, Dorothy, of Upper Fruitland, Jeffery Charley and wife, Nancy Adame, of Denver, Colo., Woodrow Charley and wife, Juanita, of Blanco Canyon; foster brother Mike Lorence and wife Marilyn of Joseph City, Ariz.; sisters, Pamela Charley of Farmington, Laverna Charley of Farmington, Jacquetta Charley of Bloomfield and Beverly Charley of Kansas. Also surviving are nieces and nephews, Bryan Charley, Tashina Castiano, Lahoma Charley, Quinn R. Charley, Tyrell A. Castiano, Cherise J. Charley, Kiara N. Charley; and grandkids, Jayden Castiano, Justine, Kobe and Kylie Bigthumb. He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Eva B. Charley; paternal grandmother, Dorothy Charley; aunt, Pearl Biggs; uncles, Albert Charley and Luther Charley; and grandson Elijah Lee John. Visitation was held Friday, Nov. 26 Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. today, Saturday, Nov. 27, at the Maranatha Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, 618 W. Arrington in Farmington. He will be laid to rest at Greenlawn Cemetery in Farmington. Pallbearers will be Wayne Harrison, Henderson Harrison, Alvin Willie, Sylvester Sandoval, Eddie Griffith, Benjamin Henry, Raymond Sanchez and Gilbert Bradley. Honorary pallbearers will be Larrial Charley, Levi Larry Charley Jr., Jeffery T. Charley, Woodrow Charley, Larry Charley Sr., Mike Lorence, Jerome Charley, James Charley, Eddie Griffith, Harvey Betselie, John W. Eaton and Dr. James Spence. Funeral arrangements and services are entrusted to Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home of Shiprock, (505) 368-4607. May the Great Spirit bless you, Darrell, and may your spirit soar with the eagles. Copyright c. 2004 Farmington Daily Times, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Billy Cornfield, Sr. YATAHEY - Funeral services and visitation for Billy Cornfiled, Sr., 93, were at 10 a.m. this morning, Nov. 23 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Calvin H. Tsosie, Sr. officiated. Burial followed at the Gallup City Cemetery. Cornfield died Nov. 18 in Gallup. He was born July 4, 1911 in Cornfields into the Charcoal Streak Division of the Red Running into the Water People Clan for the Big Water People Clan. Cornfield, Sr. was employed with J.B. Tanner's, Gallup Indian Trading and Manuelito Senior Citizen Center. He was a NAC roadman and member. Cornfield enjoyed sheepherding, silversmithing, storytelling and traveling. Survivors include his wife, Ann S. Cornfield; sons, Ambrose Cornfiled, Billy Cornfield, Jr.; daughters, Pauline Cornfield, Elizabeth Cornfield, Evelyn Harding, Roselinda Tsosie; brother, Manuel Shirley; 21 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Cornfield, Sr. was preceded in death by his first wife, Susie B. Cornfield; son, George Cornfield; sister, Clara Jim; brothers, Guy Cornfield, Tulley Cornfield and Paul Cornfield. Pallbearers will be Calvin Tsosie, Jr., Leonard L. Doctor, Jr., Junior Cornfield, Virgil F. Wilson, Matthew J. Chester and James Salabye. The family will receive relatives and friends at the Rock Springs Chapter House. Cope Memorial in charge of arrangements. Edison Chee Begay LUKACHUKAI - Funeral services for Edison Chee Begay, 38, will be at 10 a. m. on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at the St. Isabel Mission. Burial will follow in the St. Isabel Community Cemetery. Begay died Nov. 13 in Farmington. He was born March 26, 1966 in Shiprock into the Water Edge People Clan. He attended Lukachukai Boarding School and worked for the Pumpkin Patch in NAPI, Farmington. He enjoyed cooking, cleaning, repairing vehicles, car stereos and T.V's. Pallbearers will be Virgil Begay, Russell Begay, Jarvis Tsosie, Francis Descheenie and Norman Lee. The family will receive relatives and friends at Susie C. Yazzie's residence, one-half mile east of Totsoh Trading Post. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Alice C. McCabe FRUITLAND - Funeral services for Alice C. McCabe, 83, will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27 at the Parker Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Parker, Ariz. Burial will be in the Parker Cemetery. A visitation will be held Wednesday, Nov. 24 at Cope Memorial Chapel Farmington from 3 to 6 p.m. McCabe died Nov. 19 in Fruitland. She was born Jan. 12, 1921 in Ganado. Survivors include her son, Marvin McCabe, Sr.; daughters, Emily McCabe Allison, Dodee McCabe and Tina Rosales. November 24, 2004 Nasbah Nora Spencer GALLUP - Funeral services for Nasbah Nora Spencer, 17, will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow on a family plot. Spencer died Nov. 21 in Spencer Valley. She was born May 15, 1987 in Gallup into the Meadow People Clan for the Water Edge People Clan. Spencer was a junior at Gallup High School. She enjoyed horseback riding, helping her father with horse training, clay work, drawing and her art class. Her work was entered in a local art show in Gallup. Survivors include her parents, Paul Spencer, Sr. and Nora Gray of Spencer Valley; brothers, Vernie Spencer, Paul Spencer, Jr both of Spencer Valley, Bronson Spencer of White River, Eli R. Spencer of San Diego, Calif. ; sisters, Latheesa Spencer, Latrina Spencer both of Mariano Lake, Nadia Spencer, Nicole Spencer, Natahalynn Spencer all of Spencer Valley. Spencer was preceded in death by her grandparents, Sam Joe Spencer, Nasbah Spencer, Sam Gray, Jr. and Frannie Gray. Pallbearers will be Cody Yazzie, Ervin Yazzie, Bronson Spencer, Paul Spencer, Jr., and Kyle Chee. Cope Memorial is in charge of arrangements. Jim Bryant SHEEPSPRINGS - Funeral services for Jim Bryant, 55, will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Sheepsprings. Ned B. Henry will officiate. A private disposition will be held in Naschitti. Bryant died Nov. 20 in Tohatchi. He was born Sept. 26, 1949 in Naschitti into the Red House People Clan for the Salt People Clan. He went to school at Naschitti Day School. He is survived by his wife, Grace M. Bryant; sons, Eugene Bryant, Jimson Bryant; daughter, Sophia Lou Bryant; mother, Rose Bryant; sisters, Lillie Yazzie, Lucy Simpson, Angela Bryant and four grandchildren. Bryant was preceded in death by his father, Nelson Bryant. Pallbearers will be Robertson Yazzie, Bronson Enrico, Alfred Foster, Paul Denetdeal, Jr., Tracy Bryant and Dewayne Tsosie. The family will receive relatives and friends at the Sheep Springs Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. (back to top) Laureen Ann Razo-Wilson KANSAS CITY - Services for Laureen Ann Razo-Wilson, 29, will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26 at the Ganado Glory Temple. Pastor Sam Begay will officiate. Burial will follow in the Ganado Community Cemetery. Wilson was born June 16, 1975 in Ganado into the Towering House People Clan for the Water Edge People Clan. Survivors include her husband, Spencer Razo; son, Baby Boy Razo; daughters, Lanisha Pablo, Lorraine Pablo; brothers, Alvin Wilson, Melvin Wilson and Gilbert Wilson, Jr. Razo was preceded in death by her parents, Gilbert and Alberta Wilson. Pallbearers will be family members. The family will receive relatives and friends at the Ganado Chapter House. Arthur Paul Yazzie, Sr. TOHATCHI - Funeral services for Arthur Paul Yazzie, Sr., 73, will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26 at St. Marys Catholic Mission. Father Joe Redlinbo will officiate. Burial will be in a family cemtery. Yazzie, Sr. died Nov. 21 in Grants. He was born March 1, 1931 in Coyote Canyon into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Edge Water People Clan. He is survived by his wife, Alice S. Yazzie of Tohatchi; daughters, Alberta Bitsoi, Bernice J. Yazzie, LaVerne J. Yazzie, Theresa Yazzie all of Tohatchi; sons, Arthur P. Yazzie of Shiprock, Julius P. Yazzie of Tohatchi; sisters, Stella M. Becenti of Naschitti, Sally Green of Cow Springs, Carolyn Jones of Rocksprings, Ella Mae Kinsel of Tohatchi; brothers, Harry H. Yazzie of Twin Lakes, Jimmy Yazzie of Manuelito, Larry S. Yazzie of Naschitti, Richard L. Yazzie of Rocksprings, Roy Lee Yazzie of Kirtland; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Yazzie, Sr. was preceded in death by his father, Holtsoi Yazzie; mother, Lorena B. Yazzie; son, Steven P. Yazzie and brother, Archie Y. Begaye. Pallbearers will be Timothy Bitsilly, Julius Roanhorse, Tommy Shirley, Arthur P. Yazzie, Jr., Nathan Yazzie and Roy Lee Yazzie. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. November 26, 2004 Ella Mae Ramone Alexius ALBUQUERQUE - Funeral services for Ella Mae Ramone Alexius, 52, were at 10 a.m. this morning at the Hosanna Penecostal Church, Crownpoint. Brother Julian Gunn will officiate. Burial will be in Smith Lake. Alexius was born May 2, 1952 in Crownpoint into the Folded Arms People Clan for the Waters Edge People Clan. Alexius graduated from Fort Wingate and went on to the Indian Bible College. She was a member of the First Indian Church of the Nazarene. Alexius was a silversmith and she enjoyed weaving, sewing and church activities. She is survived by her husband, Danny Smith of Chilchinbito; daughters, Eileen Alexius of Continental Divide, April Alexius of Albuquerque; brothers, Dennis Ramone of Algodones, Eugene Ramone of Aneth, Utah; sisters, Arlene Barela of Bernalillo, Elsie Ramone of Albuquerque, Lucy Ramone of Chinle, Nancy Yazzie of Blackwater, Mabel Ramone of Tohatchi and four grandchildren. Alexius was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Alice Ramone; grandparents, Paddy and Nellie Ramone; Etta Benally, Alice C. Ramone and Tom Ramone. Pallbearers will be Rex Long, Michael Murphy, Sam Ramone, Gerald Ramone and Leland Leonard. The family will receive relatives and friends at the Littlewater Chapter House. Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Margaret Smith Harvey GALLUP - Services for Margaret Harvey, 80, will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 27 at the Pentecostal Churge in Tohatchi. Pastor Jerry Eastridge will officiate. Burial will follow in the Sunset Memorial Crematory, Albuquerque. Harvey died Nov. 22. She was born April 6 in Pinedale into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Towering House People clan. Harvey was imployed with the Income Support Division for many years. Her hobbies included reading the bible and teaching. Survivors inclue her sons, Vernon Harvey of Phoenix, Walter Harvey of Breadsprings, Damon Platero of Tucson, Delbert Platero of Gamerco and Don Platero of Gallup. She was preceded in death by her husband, Benjamin Harvey her mother Desbah Smith, her father and one brother Johnnie Smith.\ Pallbearers will be Vernon Harvey, Walter Harvey, Damon Platero, Delbert Platero, Don Platero, Duane Platero and Travis Platero. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. November 27, 2004 Julius Kennedy Nez WIDE RUINS - Graveside services for Julius Kennedy Nez, 41, will be in the Wide Ruins Cemetery, Klagetoh. Nez died Nov. 22 in Tucson. He was born Nov. 22, 1963 in Ganado into the Over-hanging Rock People Clan for the Towering House People Clan. Survivors include his son, Anderson Sanders; daughter, Kari Lynn Nez; brothers, Kenneth Chester, Irvin Chester, Eugene Nez, Randell Nez, sisters, Anita Gaddy, Evelyn Lynch, Charlene Murphy and Cheryl Nez. Nez was preceded in death by his mother, Eleanor C. Nez; father, George Nez and brother, Bennie Chester. Pallbearers will be Anthony Nez, Gregory Lynch, Marcus Lee and Ray Lynch. The family will receive relatives and friends at the Wide Ruins Chapter House after services. Cope Memorial is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 the Gallup Independent. -=-=-=- November 26, 2004 Alden Tsosie Alden "Robert" Tsosie, of Flagstaff, died Nov. 21, 2004, in a car accident. He was 23. He was born July 26, 1981, in Tuba City and was a construction worker in Flagstaff. He is survived by his daughters, Adrian Kara Tsosie and Tristen Darren Tsosie; parents, Colleen Ashley and Arnold Yellow; stepfather, LeRoy Ashley; sisters, Lelinda Ashley, Monica Yellow and Veronica Yellow; brothers, Kendrick, Junior and Steven Coochyamptewa. Family members describe him as a loving, caring father, gourd dancer and active member of his pow-wow drum group. He was preceded in death by his great-grandfathers John Billy-Ahasteen and Jimmy Ahasteen; grandfather, Mark Tsosie and uncle, Melvin Tsosie. A funeral is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004 at 10 a.m. The family has asked for those wishing to attend to contact Colleen Ashley at 522- 0286. Contributions may be brought to the family's home at 4845 E. Trails End, Flagstaff, AZ., 86004. Arrangements are being handled by Norvel Owens Mortuary. November 29, 2004 Keith G. Grass Sr. Keith G. Grass Sr., 60, died Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at his home in Flagstaff with his family by his side. He was born Nov. 15, 1944, at Shanto, Ariz., to Edgar and Mabel Grass. Mr. Grass enjoyed fishing, bowling and spending time with his family and grandchildren. He retired after working 30 years for the Black Mesa Mine. Mr. Grass is survived by his loving wife of 28 years, Pearl Grass of Flagstaff; children Keith (Bridgette) Grass of Tempe, Wanda (Terry) Redhouse of Kayenta, Ramona (Leander) Holiday of Oljato, Utah, Georgette (Anthony) Gibson of Flagstaff, Melissa Grass of Mesa and Adam Redhouse of Shiprock, N.M.; mother Mabel Grass of Shanto; brothers Amos Grass, Sr., Jones Grass and Dennis Grass; sister Patricia Whitman; seven grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews and other family. He his preceded in death by son Kent Grass; his father, Edgar Grass; and sister Julia Curley. A visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Norvel Owens Mortuary, 914 E. Route 66. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the White Post Church in Shanto. Interment will be on family land in Shanto. Arrangements are under the direction of the Norvel Owens Mortuary. Copyright c. 2000-2004 Arizona Daily Sun. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Ronald Duweynie Jr. Ronald Ray "Chop" Duweynie Jr., of San Carlos died Nov. 18, 2004 in San Carlos. He was 30 years of age. Mr. Duweynie was a laborer in the construction industry. A lifelong resident of San Carlos, he is survived by his parents, Johnny and Judy Duweynie of San Carlos and sisters, Shirley Stanley, Sue Duweynie and Lynn M. Victor, all of San Carlos. The wake will begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 26 at the Johnny Duweynie, 15 Tufa Stone in San Carlos. Services will be Saturday, Nov. 27 at 1 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in San Carlos, with interment in the San Carlos Cemetery. Lamont Mortuary of Globe was in charge of arrangements. Daniel Hill Daniel Valentino "Tino" Hill, 26, of San Carlos died Nov. 15, 2004, in San Carlos. Born in Globe, he worked as a construction heavy equipment laborer. He is survived by his father, Ernest Hill of San Carlos; his mother, Henrietta Adley of San Carlos; one son, Cameron Merle Hill of Whiteriver; four sisters, Jolene Wesley, Valerie Thorne, Kateri Rodriguez and Nadine Reede, all of San Carlos; and one brother, Michael Hill of San Carlos. Funeral service was conducted Nov. 22 at San Carlos Miracle Church. Interment was in San Carlos Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Lamont Mortuary of Globe. Copyright c. 2004 Arizona Silver Belt/Apache Moccasin. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Stephen Ankerpont 1959 ~ 2004 Elroy Stephen Ankerpont, age 45, of Ft. Duchesne, passed away November 20, 2004, at his home. He was born September 24, 1959, in Vernal to Roy Sr. and Clara Santio Ankerpont. Stephen is survived by his mother, Clara, Ft. Duchesne; brother, Roy Ankerpont, Jr., Randlett; Marjorie Tavashutz, Indian Bench; Geneva Ankerpont, Roosevelt; Raquel Ice, Whiterocks; and Joliet Ignacio, Ft. Duchesne. He was preceded in death by his brothers Elliot Ankerpont and Gene M. Ankerpont. Graveside services held 11:00 a.m., Monday, November 22, 2004, at the Ft. Duchesne Cemetery under the direction of the Hullinger Mortuary. Beverly Serawop 1942 ~ 2004 Beverly Cesspooch Serawop, age 61, of Randlett died October 17, 2004 at the Uintah Basin Medical Center. Beverly was born October 24, 1942 in Ft. Duchesne to Cruz and May McCook Cesspooch. She married Keith Fred Serawop. Beverly enjoyed playing at casino's, and card games at the Hogan. Her favorite casino was the "Cliff Casino" in Wendover. She loved to visit with her family and liked the Bear Dance. She is survived by her husband Keith, children; Alvera May Cesspooch, Randlett; Kerwin R (Gayle) Lester, Jennifer Ann Lester, both of Mascalero NM; Jerry L. Lester, Jr., Roosevelt; Jaymoe Tapoof, Vernal, Priscilla E. Chapman, SLC, 24 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Brothers and sisters JoAnn Wash, Richardson Subdivision; Beatrice Cesspooch, Clarice Cesspooch, Janice May Cesspooch, all of SLC Lavita Cesspooch, and Raymond Cruz Cesspooch, Randlett. She was preceded in death by sisters Andulia Sanchez, Lupita Cesspooch a baby sister and brother, Samuel Cesspooch. Funeral services held Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. at the Randlett Episcopal Church. Burial in the Randlett Cemetery under direction of the Hullinger Mortuary. Copyright c. 2004 Uintah Basin Standard/Roosevelt, UT. -=-=-=- November 24, 2004 Toni Boise Warm Springs resident Toni Marie Boise died Nov. 20, 2004, in an accident on Highway 3 in Warm Springs. She was 21. Ms. Boise was born June 22, 1983, in Madras to parents Tony C. Boise and Patricia Kalama. She was a lifetime resident of Warm Springs, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and worked as a preschool teacher for the tribal Early Childhood Center. Survivors include her child, Genises J. Lucei of Warm Springs; brother, Justin Boise of Warm Springs; and sisters, Suzette Boise and Suzi Brizeno, both of Warm Springs. A dressing ceremony was held Nov. 22, at Agency Longhouse, with burial Nov. 23, at Agency Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Bel- Air Colonial Funeral Home of Madras. Ambrose George Warm Springs resident Ambrose L. George died Nov. 20, 2004, in an accident on Highway 3 in Warm Springs. He was 22. Mr. George was born Jan. 18, 1982, in Toppenish, Wash., to parents Kenneth Florez and Wanda George. He was a lifetime resident of Warm Springs. Survivors include his brothers, Kendall Florez of Warm Springs, Dustin Florez of Las Vegas, Nev., Andrew George of Granger, Wash., and Josh King of Zilla, Wash.; sisters, Kendra Wolfe of Warm Springs, Savannah George of Toppenish, Wash., Lucy Selam of Wapato, Wash., and Michelle King and Delia King, both of Zilla, Wash. A dressing ceremony was held Nov. 22, at Agency Longhouse, with burial Nov. 23, at Simnasho Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home of Madras. Copyright c. 2001-2004 Madras Pioneer, Eagle Newspapers Inc./Madras, OR. -=-=-=- November 27, 2004 Emma W. LeGarde TOPPENISH - Emma W. LeGarde, 77, of Toppenish passed away on Thursday, November 25, 2004 in Toppenish, WA. She was born on Feb. 23, 1927 in Toppenish, WA to Jim and Telix (Squeochs) Wachumwah. She liked to sew and do bead work and was quite the seamstress. Survivors include son Thomas LeGarde of Toppenish, Wa. daughter; Judy LeGarde of Kent Wa.; Sisters Josephine George of Toppenish, Jean Brown of Granger Wa.; Brother, Robert Wachumwah of Wapato, Wa.; numerous grandchilderen and nieces and nephews. Proceeded in death by her parents Jim Wachumwah and Telix Squeochs; husband Hank LeGarde; three infant children; son and daughter Don Howtopat and Louella LeGarde. Dressing ceremonies were held 1:00 PM on Friday, Nov. 26 at Satus Longhouse. Funeral and Burial will be held at sunrise at Beavert Cemetery. Colonial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 Yakima Herald-Republic/Yakima, WA. -=-=-=- November 11th, 2004 Bradley Tendoy Jr. FORT HALL - Bradley Lewis Tendoy Jr., 19, passed away on November 9, 2004 at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho. He was born August 7, 1985 to Valerie Tom and Bradley Tendoy Sr. (Linda Waterhouse) and was an enrolled member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes. He was raised by Lydia Capps Tendoy and Emory Tendoy, Paternal Grandparents at Fort Hall. He attended Fort Hall Elementary and the Sho- Ban School. He was employed temporary by Wadda Farms. He liked to play video games, basketball, listening to music, going swimming and fishing at the Bottoms on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Surviving Bradley are his parents, a special friend Courtney Galloway; Brothers: Harlan Tendoy (Christine St. Pierre), Glenn Tendoy; Sister: Reesa Tendoy; Stepbrothers: Ernesto Casaraz; Odorico Parades; Stepsister: Eagleplume Poowegup; Paternal Grandfather Emory (Chico) Tendoy; Maternal Grandfather: Glenn Tom Sr.; Traditional Grandparents: Gelicka Romero; Leroy Tendoy; Keith and Louise Capps; Bobby and Yvonne Capps; Maternal Uncles and Aunts from Utah Glenn Tom Jr.; Donovan Tom, Bettina Tom, Paulette Martinez and Caroline Johnson; Paternal Uncle and Aunts: Duncan Tendoy (Kathy Timbana); Linda Jay (Edward), Preceding him in death are his Paternal Grandmother: Lydia Capps Tendoy; Maternal Grandmother: Phoebe Tom Atwine; Paternal Great-grandparents: John Tendoy, Irene Tendoy, Maternal Great-grandparents: Beecher Capps and Susie Adams Capps of Burns, Oregon. Family and friends visited at the Emory (Chico) Tendoy residence on East Sheepskin Road from Thursday, November 11, 2004, until the graveside service was conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 13, 2004 at Gibson Cemetery. All funeral arrangements were family directed. Copyright c. 2004 Sho-Ban News, Covering Idaho & Indian Country. -=-=-=- November 29, 2004 Elaine Merle Hill ETHETE - Funeral services for Elaine Merle Hill, 56, will be conducted at 10 a.m. today, Nov. 29, in Blue Sky Hall in Ethete by the Rev. Tom Means. Interment will be in Friday Cemetery in Ethete. She died Nov. 25, 2004, at the family home in Ethete. Born April 14, 1948, in Fort Washakie, she was the daughter of Winnie Effie and Chester Friday Sr.; was a lifelong resident of the Wind River Indian Reservation; and attended schools at St. Michael's Mission, Mill Creek and Lander. She was a homemaker and enjoyed horseback-riding, attending rodeos and powwows, and being with her family and friends. Survivors include six daughters, Carleen Hill of Ethete, Sherrie Hill of Fort Washakie, Chris Romero, Laura and Lisa Wallowingbull and Serena Gardner; son, Jonathon Jorgenson of Fort Washakie; four sisters, Estelle Dodge of 17 Mile, Corine Revere and Linda Hurtado, both of Ethete, and Zette Underwood of Mill Creek; three brothers, Hubert Friday of Mill Creek, Duane Friday of 17 Mile and Chester Friday Jr. of Mill Creek; eight grandchildren; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded by her husband, Frank Hill; parents; two brothers, Allan and Harry Friday; three sisters, Theresa and Elizabeth Friday and Irene Mountain Sheep; two grandsons; and grandparents, Harry and Elizabeth Friday, Allison Trosper and Maggie Richards. Wind Dancer Funeral Home of Fort Washakie is in charge of arrangements. Copyright c. 2004 Casper Star-Tribune published by Lee Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated. -=-=-=- November 24, 2004 Rose Lee Bearchum LAME DEER - Rose Lee Bearchum, 56, of Lame Deer, passed away Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, in the Billings Deaconess Hospital. She was born June 29, 1948, in Elbow Woods, N.D., a daughter of Dominic and Gertrude Youngbear Sillitti. She received her early education in North Dakota and Billings Senior High School, before completing her education at Chief Dull Knife Memorial College in Lame Deer. Rose married Robert Bearchum, Sr. on Aug. 3, 1971, in Sheridan, Wyo., and the couple made their home in Lame Deer. Mr. Bearchum died in 1999. She was a traditional woman who enjoyed hand games, powwows and assisting her sons with several Sun Dance activities. She loved to play cards and bingo. However, the love of her life was her family. She was a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, Water Buster Clan and was a child of the Prairie Chicken Clan. Her father and sister Artist Whitebody preceded Rose in death. Survivors include her mother, Gertrude Sillitti of North Dakota; two daughters, Christi Bearchum and Nakia (Virgil Weaselbear) Bearchum of Lame Deer; five sons, Mike (Kim) Craig and Frank (Catherine) Sillitti of North Dakota, Tracy Craig of Shelby, Ron (Stanna) Craig and Robert (Miriam) Bearchum, Jr. of Lame Deer; two adopted sons, Steve Moosman of Utah and James Walks Along of Lame Deer; four sisters, Katherine (Mark) Lee and Frances (David) Johnson of North Dakota, Katherine (Eddie) Foote, Jr. and June Seminole of Lame Deer; a brother, Dominic Sillitti of North Dakota; 21 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Traditional wake and rosary services will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, in at the family home in Lame Deer. Funeral Mass will be celebrated 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 26, in the Lame Deer Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Interment will follow in the Birney Cemetery. Bullis Mortuary of Hardin has been entrusted with the arrangements. November 27, 2004 Emma Bad Horse LODGE GRASS - Emma Bad Horse, 80, of Lodge Grass, Crow elder and matriarch passed away, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in the Crow-Northern Cheyenne IHS Hospital. Baaihacheeletash "Friendly to Everyone" was born Sept. 1, 1924, in Lodge Grass, a daughter of Harry Don't Mix and Sarah Grandmother Knife. Her grandparents, Pretty At the Back of the Neck and Henry and Lizzie Pretty on Top, Sr., raised her. She grew up and received her education in Lodge Grass. She was employed as head cook for many years at the Big Horn Mountain Youth Camp. She was later hired as head cook at the Lodge Grass Senior Citizens Program. In recent years, she was a consultant to the Lodge Grass schools during Native American Week. Emma married Clarence Brien and was later divorced. She married Robert Springfield, Sr. and was later divorced. In 1968, she married Paul Bad Horse, Sr. and the couple made their home in Wyola. Mr. Bad Horse died in 1982. She was a member of the Catholic Church, Big Lodge Clan, a child of the Newly Made Lodge and was a Tobacco Society member. Emma was a traditional Crow woman who was known for her sewing and beading expertise. She enjoyed camping and being surrounded by her large family. Her parents; daughter, Bonnie White Bear; sisters, Aurelia, Rose and Rita Don't Mix, Ada Rides Horse, Evalyn Covers Up, Susanna One Bear and Frances Gros Ventre; and brothers, William Gros Ventre, Raphael White Hip, Paula Deputee, Sr., Teddy and Albert Don't Mix, Andrew BirdinGround, Lewis Rides Horse, Paul Deputee and Richard Bird; as well as her grandson, Blake White Bear, preceded Emma in death. Survivors include her daughters, Margaret and Mary Springfield, Ursula Bad Horse, Elizabeth (Earl) Old Chief, Clarise (Robert) Kindness, Fatemia Bad Horse, Gustine Old Bear, Nora Little Light Bird, Maria (Preston) Onion, Penny Powers, Juane Daingkau, Leslie (Paul) Kabotie, Celeste Tobacco, Elizabeth (Merle) Plainfeather, MaeAnn (Cary) Lance, Shirley (Kalye) Howe, Myra Gros Ventre, Lottie (Curtis) Medicine Horse and Cecelia (Frazier) White Hip; her sons, Robert (Gloria) Brien, Sr., Woodrow (Gladys) Brien, Francis, Robert (Veronica), William (Roanna), Josh, Harry Dean and Wendell Springfield, Paul Bad Horse, Jr., Lansing (Kim) BirdinGround, Danny (Rhonda) and Darwin (Ann) Powers, Preston (Sandra) Grand, James (Carla) Wilson, Bradford (Loretta) Crooked Arm, William Medicine Crow, George Little Light, William (Donna) Falls Down, Ricky Fighter, Paul House, Larry Kobieluz, Robert and Chester (Sharolyn) Nomee; her sisters, Harriett Don't Mix, Mary Helen (Alex) Medicine Horse, Violet Other Medicine, Pauline Small, Winonna Plenty Hoops, Henrietta Pretty on Top, Joy (Paul) Matt, Clara Nomee, Louella (Gary) Johnson, Hannah (Kenneth) Pretty on Top, Vicki (Greg) Hogan, Laura Singer, Luanna (Marvin) Stewart, Nathel Jefferson, Ramona Backbone, Marjorie (Sam) Hoops, Daisy (Henry) Bright Wings, Jr. Josie (Ben) Stands, Veronica (Brewster) Pretty on Top; and Ardith (Lloyd) Hogan; her brothers, Ivan Don't Mix, Russell (Shelia) Wallace, Elmer (Theresa) Gun Shows, George Chandler, John Pretty on Top, Paul (Bertha) Nomee, Jr., Harold (Marina) Stone, William (Pamela) Backbone, Jerome (Lois) and Vincent (Marjorie) White Hip; grandchildren whom she raised as her own, Myers (Vera) Brien, Loretta (Carlton) Nomee, Avery Springfield, Emma (Randall) Black Eagle, Genevieve and Allen White Bear; her uncles, Phillip (Martha) Beaumont, Sr., Alex (Dena) LaForge, Sr., and Lawrence (Jennifer) Flat Lip; her special little grandfather, Thomas White Hip Bull Tail; her Tobacco Society family, father, Henry "Sarge" Old Horn, Jack (Debbie) and Robert "Corky" (Rachel) Old Horn, Paul Matt, Jr., Martin Old Crow Dora Rides Horse, Julia and Deanne Round Face; 56 grandchildren; 72 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her extended family, including the Red, Spotted Horse, Lincoln, He Does It, Yarlott, Gun Shows, Dust, Bell Rock, Whiteman Runs Him, Bad Bear, Holds the Enemy and Left Hand families. Our family is extremely large; if we have missed you, please accept our apology. Rosary will be recited 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, in the Bullis Funeral Chapel. Funeral Mass will be celebrated 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 29, in the Lodge Grass Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church. Rite of Committal will follow in the Lodge Grass 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. November 26, 2004 Rita Hall Spotted Eagle A lifelong resident of the Heart Butte area, Rita Hall Spotted Eagle (Antelope Woman) passed away Nov. 14 at the Peace Hospice Center, Great Falls, of cancer. Funeral Services were held at 10 a.m. at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Cut Bank Nov. 20. Interment was at the Hall Family Cemetery, Badger Creek. Croxford Funeral Home of Great Falls handled the arrangements. Rita was the second child born to William (Bill) and Minnie (Whiteman) Hall on Feb. 3, 1923. Rita was raised on the Hall Ranch at Badger Creek, not far from the Old Agency and Ghost Bottom. Rita attended school at Old Agency, Holy Family Mission, Bismarck Indian School, Cut Bank Boarding School and later to Chemawa Indian School where she played basketball and held records in that event. She married Jim Spotted Eagle in 1942 at Cardston, Alberta. Together, they had three children, Marlene (Spotted Eagle) Whipple, Vernon Spotted Eagle and Joy Spotted Eagle. They raised their grandson, Shannon Spotted Eagle. Rita and Jim were lifelong ranchers, engaging in raising sheep for 28 years and later cattle. Rita worked for the Indian Health Service, starting as a "Blue Girl" and continued working for 27 years at the Blackfeet Hospital and the Heart Butte Clinic, retiring in 1987. The concept of belonging to a clan of people among the Blackfeet had all but died for the Hall family until Rita and Jim began their efforts in 1991. The Drinks Tea Alone Clan each summer has its annual picnic and campout. At this time, they also have name-giving ceremonies and give Indian names that belong to the Clan. The Drinks Tea Alone Clan came to be known from Good Strike Woman, wife of Whiteman or Eagle Calf, who drank her tea alone. Rita's family on her father's side came from the Blood Clan. Her great grandfather, Sits-in-the-Middle was one of the great Southern Piegan chiefs, along with his father, Mountain Chief. Rita was a family historian and a great Blackfeet history storyteller. Along with her husband Jim, they were part of the cast of the "Story of Going to the Sun" documentary and also starred in a Soil Conservation Public Service Announcement titled "Harmony." She enjoyed beading, family gatherings and trips to Rosebud, SD, to visit her daughter Marlene. She lived a good, healthy life, and was a good wife, mother, grandmother, sister and aunt. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Jim Spotted Eagle; her son Vernon Spotted Eagle and family; her daughter, Joy Spotted Eagle and girls; and grandson, Shannon Spotted Eagle; her sisters, Gertrude Hall Running Fisher, Elva Hall Augare, Lorraine (Bill) Rumney; her brothers, William (Ruby) Hall, Merlin (Betty Ann) Hall and Truman (Joy) Hall; her grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Marlene Spotted Eagle Whipple; her parents, William and Minnie Hall; her brothers, John C. Hall, Alvin "Fat" Hall and Virgil "Pickles" Hall; and her grandparents, John and Josephine "Beaver Eyes" Hall, and Adam and Hannah (Evans) Whiteman. Delores Faye Guardipee Browning homemaker, Delores Faye Guardipee, 56, died Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 of injuries received in a car accident. A prayer service will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. at Glacier Homes Community Center. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Glacier Homes Community Center with burial following in Willow Creek Cemetery. Day Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Guardipee was born Nov. 7, 1948 in Yakima, Wash., and was raised in Browning. She attended schools in St. Louis, Mo., and Blackfeet Community College in Browning. In 1974 she married Phillip Guardipee in Seattle, Wash. She enjoyed card games and taking care of her grandchildren. Survivors include her husband of Browning; daughters, Dawn and Nikki Bad Old Man, Juanita Guardipee DuBray, Lavonn Guardipee Peterson and Crystal Mad Plume; sons, Jeffery Mcatee, Dennis, Robert, Kevin, Quentin and Dane Guardipee, Phillip Guardipee, Jr., Michael and Corey Bad Old Man and Glenn Horn; sisters, Eva, Betty, Karen, Lydia, Tina, Mary, Eva, Rosalia, Isha, Marshalene and Lollie; brothers, Dean Red Oscar, Chubby Last Star and John Breshon; parents, Dennis and Florence Bad Old Man; and numerous grandchildren. Wilma Marie Adams Wilma Marie (Guardipee) Adams, 82, of Browning, a retired chemical dependency counselor, died of natural causes Wednesday at a Great Falls hospital. A wake and rosary were held at Glacier Homes Community Center. Funeral Mass was Monday at Little Flower Parish, with burial in Holy Family Mission. Day Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Adams was born at Birch Creek Oct. 27, 1922 and raised in the Two Medicine, Old Agency and Birch Creek area. In 1946, she married Bill Adams, Sr. in Browning. He died July 7, 2002. An excellent cook, she was a wonderful wife to her husband and mother to their children. She had also worked as a welder, homeschool coordinator and as a librarian assistant for Green Thumb. She was a member of Little Flower Parish and the 225 Bowling Club. She enjoyed a wide variety of activities and hobbies, including bowling, berry picking, knitting and crocheting, collecting dolls, baking, picnics, camping, playing bingo, traveling and sightseeing, shopping and fishing. Survivors include daughters Karen Adams Vielle, Reva Adams, Allison Adams and Frances Adams, all of Browning, and Geraldine Charlo of Oregon; sons Eugene Dubray and Bill Adams Jr. of Browning and Barry Adams of Cut Bank; 32 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and nine great-great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Adams Sr. Copyright c. 2004 Golden Triangle Newspapers. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Ronald Keith 'Barney' Barnaby PABLO - Ronald Keith "Barney" Barnaby, 48, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe who enjoyed reading, bikes and cars, died Friday at his Pablo home. The cause of death has not yet been determined. His wake begins this morning at Foster and Durgeloh Funeral Chapel in St. Ignatius and continues at 5 this evening at the Longhouse in St. Ignatius. His funeral is 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Longhouse, with burial in Ronan Cemetery. Survivors include brothers Britton Weldon Salois of Pablo and Garry William Salois of Ronan and a sister, Duretta Billedeaux of St. Ignatius. November 25, 2004 Thomas E. 'Buzzy' Stiffarm FORT BELKNAP - Thomas E. "Buzzy" Stiffarm, 68, a carpenter and U.S. Army veteran, died of natural causes Monday at a Great Falls hospital. A wake and rosary is 7 this evening at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Funeral Mass is 11 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart, with burial in Stiffarm Family Cemetery. Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook is in charge of arrangements. Survivors, all of Montana, include daughters Veronica Stiffarm and Mildred "Midge" Strike; a son, Tom Stiffarm III; sisters Marjie Iron Maker and Delores Little Owl; brothers Bill Stiffarm, Doug Stiffarm Sr., Gerald Stiffarm and Preston Stiffarm; seven grandchildren and one great- grandchild. A son, Gregory E. Stiffarm, died in 1977. Copyright c. 2004 Great Falls Tribune, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Ronald Keith 'Barney' Barnaby PABLO - Ronald Keith "Barney" Barnaby, 48, went to join the Ancestors at his home on Friday, Nov. 19, 2004. A member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, he was born in St. Ignatius on Jan. 21, 1956, to Howard Vernon Barnaby and Mary Alice Matt. Raised on the Flathead Reservation, he was one of the first graduates from Two Eagle River High School. Barney attended Haskell Indian College in Lawrence, Kan., where he received his associate degree. Following Haskell, Barney had planned to accept a scholarship to Kansas University when he had an auto accident that injured him in such a manner that he had to heal before he could continue to pursue his degree. After many years of recovery he was ready to finish his schooling in computer science and recently had started attending Salish Kootenai College in Pablo to do so. A kind and gentle man, he had a wonderful sense of humor and is fondly remembered by his family for many things. He enjoyed his gadgets, bikes, cars, reading westerns, science fiction and "True Stories." He was known for all his subscriptions and his hopeful winner letters. He could cook very well and made wonderful hangover soup, homemade bread, the best rice and the best Top Ramen gourmet. He enjoyed his family and thought highly of his elders, friends and whole family especially his Uncle Joe and Watash. Being the baby brother, there were many times that he told the nieces and nephews many of the Barnaby family's memories and wonderful stories. He had the magic ability to always give and share within his family. Barney was preceded in death by his parents Howard Vernon Barnaby and Mary Alice Matt; paternal grandparents Maxima Barnaby and Alice Clairmont; maternal grandparents William Eli Matt and Margaret St. Marks; uncle J.W. Matt; and siblings Sharon Wynona Salois, Terry Salois, Ardis Rae Salois, Linda Salois, Arnold Wayne Salois and Kelly Arthur Salois. Survivors include his brothers Britton Weldon "Jude" Salois of Pablo and Garry William Salois of Ronan; sister Duretta Billedeaux of St. Ignatius; aunts Margaret Finley Matt of St. Ignatius and Madeline Barnaby Weaselhead of Ronan; as well as immediate nieces and nephews including Tom (Wendy) Duran of Polson, Cheryl Dupuis of Pablo, Anthony Beavers of Ronan, Luana (Clyde) Beavers of Hot Springs, Shaunda (George) Salois-Albert of Polson, Shelly Salois of Pablo, Daniel Tracy Beavers, William Raymond Salois and Britton Joseph Salois, all of Pablo, Naomi Billedeaux-Meyers of Missoula, Adrianna Nicole Fehrs of St. Ignatius, Rosalynd Salois of Helena, Lyle Dean KickingWoman of Missoula, Billia Anna Salois of Pablo and William Hull of Kalispell; all of his grandnieces and grandnephews whom he loved dearly; and many cousins and other relatives from both sides of the mountains. Barney was living with his niece Cheryl Dean Dupuis at the time of his natural death and will be greatly missed by her as well as all family members A wake will begin for Barney on Tuesday morning, Nov. 23, at the Foster & Durgeloh Funeral Chapel in St. Ignatius and continue 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Longhouse in St. Ignatius. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Longhouse with burial following at Ronan Cemetery. Linda Rae Michel RONAN - Linda Rae Michel, 43, of Ronan, passed away Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula from natural causes. She was born Feb. 28, 1961, in Polson to Matt Buckskin Michel and Lucy Moody Michel. Linda grew up in Dayton with her family and attended school in Dayton and Busby. A full-blooded member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, she was employed as general managing bookkeeper for the Kootenai Culture Committee. She enjoyed putting on family gatherings and dinners, attending powwows, always spending time with children, being with her numerous friends and shopping, which was her all-time favorite. She was a classy dresser and had a smile for everyone she met. She was preceded in death by her child Leo Michel Hammer, mother Lucy Moody Michel, brother Mathias Michel Jr., nephew Mathias Michel III and her best friend Girl Tony Mathias. She is survived by her father Mathias "Matt" Michel Buckskin (Louise) of Niarada; brothers Wilbert (Beverly) of Polson, Gilbert (Dora) of Elmo, Victor (Linnea) of Lindenhurst, Ill., Leonard (Melissa) of Ronan, Keith (Maxine) of Ronan and Lee of Polson; sisters Geneva (Ronnie) of Busby and Diane of Dayton; and numerous nieces, nephews and extended family. She will be missed greatly. Traditional wake services and rosary were held Monday at the Elmo Hall. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, at the Elmo Hall. Burial will follow at Dayton Cemetery. Pallbearers are Jack Howlett, Marlin Burke, Greg Kenmille, Joe Antiste, Josh Lefthand and Howard "Jay" Walker. Crossbearer is Loretta Stevens. Honorary pallbearers are Lenny Joseph, Dorothy Birney, Dorothy Couture, Francine Dupuis, Lexyne Nahquaddy and all her nieces, nephews and friends. Arrangements under the direction of Grogan Funeral Home, Polson. Copyright c. 2004 Missoulian, a division of Lee Enterprises. -=-=-=- November 29, 2004 Valeria Hernandez ROCKY BOY - Valeria Ann Hernandez "Wright" (Sitting Cloud Woman), 55, died Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at her home in Rocky Boy due to complications from diabetes. Her wake began at 4 p.m. Saturday at Valeria and Daryl Wright's home on Duck Creek Road. The rosary was at 7 p.m. Sunday and the funeral was scheduled for 11 a.m. today, both at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with the Rev. Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial was to follow at the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Valeria was born Feb. 9, 1949, to Irvin and Mary Jane (Demontiney) Wright in Tacoma, Wash. She recently moved back home to Rocky Boy to be with her family. Valeria loved playing bingo, cooking, shopping and gambling. She also enjoyed being with family and friends and scary movies. She was a very happy-go-lucky person and loved to socialize and go to garage sales. Prior to her moving home, Valeria lived in Tacoma, Wash., with her husband, Pat Martinez, and her special pet dog, Mejo. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary Jane Rego (Demontiney); brothers, Dr. Ervin L. "Bobby" Wright, Dale David Wright and Cornell Pegram. Survivors include her husband, Pat Martinez of Tacoma, Wash.; father, Antonia Rego of Rocky Boy; daughters, Leana Wright of Rocky Boy, Judy Puga and Rose Puga, both of Oxnard, Calif.; sons, Jesus Puga Jr. and Jeffery Puga, both of Oxnard, Calif., James Wright of Baltimore, Md., Robert Miewald of Rocky Boy, Jerry Zapata of Oxnard, Calif.; sisters, Larrine R. Pegram of Tacoma, Wash., Antonette M. Rego of Ross Common, Mich.; brother, Daryl (Elinor L.) Wright I of Rocky Boy; 12 grandchildren; five nieces; five nephews; and her pet, Mejo. Arrangements are under the direction of Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Copyright c. 2004 Havre Daily News. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Carl Bowman Sr., 70 Anchorage Longtime Alaska resident Carl Anthony Bowman Sr., 70, died Nov. 6, 2004, at Alaska Native Medical Center after a lengthy illness. A service with full military honors will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Fort Richardson National Cemetery. All family members and friends are welcome. Convene at 1 p.m. at Chester Park, 2020 Muldoon Road, to participate in a procession to Fort Richardson. A reception will be afterward at Chester Park. Mr. Bowman was born July 15, 1934, to Gunnar and Margaret (Malonley) Bowman in Nome. In 1952, he joined the U.S. Air Force. He married Dorothy Lucille Langbein on Sept. 28, 1956. Dorothy and Carl raised two children, Carl Jr. "Tony" and Linda Dianne while traveling around the U.S. and Germany during his 25 years in the military. He retired at the rank of senior master sergeant at Grissom Air Force base in 1977. He moved his family to Anchorage shortly afterward. Carl was a member of Cook Inlet Region Inc., and proud of his Native heritage. The family wrote: "Carl and Dorothy basked in their retirement. Most of their getaway and relaxation time was spent at the family's cabin at Nancy Lake. There, boating, snowmachining, trolling for those feisty rainbow trout and landscaping were some of the things he really enjoyed. Carl relished those late-night poker games and evenings spent around the fire roasting each other. Carl's love and enthusiasm for life, which he shared with many, will always be remembered." Carl was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy, in 2002; sister, Alice; and brother, Ruben. He is survived by his brothers, Jim and Robert Bowman; son, Carl Bowman Jr. of Kenny Lake; daughter, Linda Troyer of Wasilla; six grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends in Alaska and the Lower 48. Memorial donations may be made to a military/veterans charity of the donor's choice. Arrangements are with Witzleben Family Funeral Home. Copyright c. 2004 The Anchorage Daily News. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 David Kimbrell, 57 Anchor Point Anchor Point resident David Arthur Kimbrell, 57, died suddenly Nov. 16, 2004, of natural causes while traveling through the Yukon Territory. A celebration-of-life party will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday at 4250 E. Eighth Ave. and continue through the evening. A service was held Saturday in British Columbia, attended by family members. It was conducted by Squamish shaman of the First Nation. Mr. Kimbrell was born July 14, 1947, in Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from Rockhurst High School and Penn Valley Community College. He brought his family to Alaska in October 1973. Soon after, he entered the surveying profession. He surveyed throughout Alaska, from Prudhoe Bay to Homer. In 1991 he established his own business, FineLine Construction Co., later becoming a registered professional land surveyor. "He will continue to work in spirit with his eldest son, and be grandfather in spirit for his youngest son's expected child," his family wrote. "David loved the state of Alaska, its people and the adventures it provided. He cherished life, and was a man of many passions. Raconteur, entrepreneur, music lover, visionary, friend -- these are but a few words that describe David. He was a generous and caring man who loved his family and will be sorely missed by all who knew him." He is survived by his former wife, Bonnie McMahon; and their two sons, Dmitri and Connor, all of Anchorage; mother, Katherine Kimbrell; brothers, Robert and Kevin of Kansas City; sister, Caitlin of Tucson, Ariz.; 14 nieces and nephews; several great-nieces and great-nephews; and many friends and loved ones. Carla Soxie, 32 Unalakleet Carla Francine "Aapungak" Soxie, 32, died Oct. 30, 2004, at her home in Unalakleet. She was born, the first of fraternal twins, on May 12, 1972, in Kotzebue to Charles Soxie and Jane Howarth Carson. She was given the Eskimo name Aapungak after her great-grandmother, Carrie Soxie. Her family wrote: "Carla's hobbies included many trips to the country, cooking, reading and shopping. She enjoyed watching movies and socializing with friends. Many children knew Carla. She was called 'Auntie Carla' and was loved by all. She loved her 'babies,' Minnie, Sandy and White Paw, and was often seen walking them to the post office. "Her character was friendly, soft-spoken and humble. She shared many hellos and passed on sweet smiles. She was also the type of person who was always there for you no matter what, if you needed a friend. "Peace to her memory." Miss Soxie is survived by her parents, Charles Soxie and Jane Howarth Carson; fraternal twin, Elsie, and sisters, Sheila Soxie and Viola Trimble; brother, Derek Carson; grandmother, Elsie Soxie; uncles, Francis Soxie and Kirk Howarth; friend and companion, David Slwooko; extended family members, Mary and John Schaeffer; many cousins and relatives in Point Hope, Kotzebue, Noatak and the Norton Sound region; many friends all over Alaska; and cousin, Franklin Focia. She was preceded in death by her grandfathers, Franklin Soxie and Gilbert Howarth Sr.; grandmother, Violet Howarth; uncles, Farrell Soxie, Clyde, Roger, Michael, Gilbert Jr. and Glenn Howarth; aunts, Beverly Somaduroff, Viola and Ethel Soxie; and cousins, Harry and Mary Soxie. Copyright c. 1999-2004 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Inc. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 George Johnson Jr. Longtime Juneau resident George Johnson Jr., 48, died Nov. 17, 2004, at the Anchorage Native Medical Center. He was born July 17, 1956, in Juneau to George Johnson Sr. and Selina Johnson. He attended Hoonah Grade School and graduated from Hoonah High School. He worked as a longshoreman, fisherman, fish processor and labor worker. He was preceded in death by his parents, George Johnson Sr. and Selina Johnson; and sister, Eloise Daniels. He is survived by his fiance', Teresa Bell of Juneau; sisters, Donna (Ken) Willard of Hoonah, and Sharon (Brian Johnson) Thomas of Sitka; brother, Merle (Kathy John) Johnson of Juneau; aunts, Ida Beierly of Juneau, Katherine Grant, Cecelia (Carl) Greenwald and Rosie Stevenson, all of Hoonah; uncle, Sandy (Sylvia) Johnson of Juneau; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. There will be a memorial service at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, at the Salvation Army Church. Funeral services will be announced at a later date and will be in Hoonah. Donations can be made at the memorial service or contact: Donna Willard at 723-3515 or Merle Johnson at 586-1000, Room 304 or 635-1433. Copyright c. 1997-2004 Juneau Empire/Morris Communications Corporation. -=-=-=- November 24, 2004 Cyril Joseph Abram ABRAM, Cyril Joseph - 67, Millbrook, Mi'kmaq First Nation, passed away November 22, 2004, at home. Born in Truro, he was the son of the late John and Mary (Cope) Abram. He was a well-known drywall installer. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and was a firm believer in aboriginal rights and treaty rights. He was the last surviving member of his immediate family. He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane (Young) Abram; children, Lorraine (Paul) Varone, Boston, Mass.; Thomas Abram, Truro; Timothy Robert Abram, Boston, Mass.; Alice Marie Abram, Anita Jean Abram, both of Truro; grandchildren, Daniel and Patrick Varone, Sara, Lisa, Michael, Alyssa and Quinton Abram, who meant the world to Cyril; nephews, Wayne Abram, John Martin. He was predeceased by son, John Abram. Visitation will be held at 813 Willow St., Millbrook today from 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral mass. Funeral mass will be held in Sacred Heart Church, Millbrook, on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Interment in Sacred Heart Church Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Colchester Community Funeral Home, Truro. On-line condolences to: colchestercommunityfh@ns.sympatico.ca Copyright c. 2004 The Halifax Herald Limited. -=-=-=- November 26, 2004 Baptiste Bigblood Whitedog First Nations Baptiste Bigblood, a resident of Whitedog First Nations, passed away on Friday, November 26, 2004 at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A full and complete obituary to follow. BROWN FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION CENTRE ENTRUSTED WITH ARRANGEMENTS. Copyright c. 2004 Kenora Daily Miner and News. -=-=-=- November 24, 2004 Florence Pinay PINAY - Florence (nee Chicoose) passed away peacefully on Sunday, November 21, 2004 with her family by her side. Florence was predeceased by two daughters, one in infancy and Margaret Peigan; two sisters, Therace and Rose; parents, Elise and Thomas Chicoose; brother Edward Chicoose; sisters-in-law Jean and Doreen (Dolly) Chicoose, grandson Sheridon Pinay and 2 granddaughters in infancy. Florence is survived by her loving husband of 55 years Douglas, brother Lawrence Chicoose, sons Wayne (Carol) Pinay, Elgin (Lorraine) Pinay, Meldon Peigan, daughters Eunice & Lorena Pinay all of Peepeekisis First Nation, Kokum to Jason, Cordell, Kimberly, Everett, Brydon, Shelanda, Laurica, Carlin, Jenelle Pinay and 18 great-grandchildren. Extended adopted families: The Eagleboy family, Poplar, Montana; Barry & Hazel Ahenakew, Atahkakoop FN; Tom Knife & sisters, Atahkakoop FN; Gwen Bondzuk & family, Regina; adopted sisters & brothers of the Carrier family, Piapot FN; the Tawiyaka family, Standing Buffalo FN; Bill Pratt family, Muscowpetung FN; special grandson, Geraldo Molina Bogata, Columbia; and many special nieces, nephews and friends. The family feels blessed because the Creator could not have chosen a more supportive and loving mom and grandmother as the one he gave us. We thank you Creator and we'll always love you mom. A wake and feast will be held in the Chief Ben Pasqua Hall, Pasqua First Nation on Wednesday, November 24, at 4:00 p.m. Funeral mass will be celebrated in Sacred Heart R.C. Church, Lebret Sask., on Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 11:00 a.m., Rev. Wojciech Wojtkowiak OMI and SR. Bernadette Feist officiants. Florence will be laid to rest beside her grandson Sheridon in the Pinay Family Cemetery. Special thanks to Dr. Lombard and staff at the All Nations Healing Hospital, Fort Qu'Appelle, SK and mom's personal doctor, Dr. Carol Geddes. Arrangements entrusted to Tubman Cremation and Funeral Services, 1-800-667-8962. November 25, 2004 Wayne Friday Cote First Nation, SK WAYNE GERALD FRIDAY - Passed away Saturday, November 20, 2004 at the age of 44 years old. Wayne is survived by many family members and friends. A wake will be held on Thursday, November 25, 2004 starting at 2:00 p.m. at the Cote First Nation Band Hall. Funeral Service will be Friday, November 26, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. Copyright c. 2000-2004 Regina Leader Post Group Inc. -=-=-=- November 23, 2004 Frederick Buckskin FREDERICK BUCKSKIN passed away in Lethbridge on November 17th, 2004 at the age of 33 years. The Wake Service will be held at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Blood Reserve on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004 from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. The Funeral Service will be held at Senator Gladstone Hall, Blood Reserve on Wednesday, November 24th at 11:00 a.m. Interment in the St. Paul's Cemetery, Blood Reserve. Arrangements in the care of Salmon Funeral Home, Cardston, AB, 653-3844. Copyright c. 2004 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc./Lethbridge Herald.