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Bernardo Gallegos

12:41pm Jan 16

The now banned reading list of the Tucson schools' Mexican American Studies includes two books by Native American author Sherman Alexie and a book of poetry by O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda.

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From the Eagle Watch #203

Google, Facebook,Censorship and Surveillance
Commentary
January 13, 2012

Knowledge is Power, especially when factual and insightful. We canuse Information to defend ourselves and to attack others in various formsof psychological warfare. It is the trend of the times.

We all know how Google censorship in China works. If a Chineseperson googles the word "democracy", they are blocked and comeunder surveillance as possible insurgents. China doesn't pretend tobe a democracy so their censorship is blatant and unapologetic.

What about here on Turtle Island?? How does censorship work? Canada and the USA feed us the lie that they are democracies. As aresult, censorship must be applied surreptiously and/or using spuriousarguments about "natsec".

In an article about Blackwater, the mega private security firm thatkilled Iraqi civilians, now Xe Services, we learned that they are nowemployed by Monsanto, the seed cartel that promotes GMO.

"...Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the directorsof the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in 2008 asdirector of Total Intelligence (an affiliate of Blackwater), enteringinto the contract with the company to spy on and infiltrate organizationsof animal rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of thebiotech giant ...according to Monsanto only to keep track of “publicdisclosure” of its opponents....Total Intelligence had become “Monsanto’sintelligence arm,” spying on activists and other actions, including “ourpeople to legally integrate these groups.”"

Corporate espionage is a real and pervasive factor. It allowsthe Government/Oligarchy to deny, deny, deny.

In another article at The Nation, "former CIA paramilitary officerEnrique "Ric" Prado" is quoted as saying to a potentialclient, ""deniability is built in and should be a bigplus.""

But how do they actually do what they do?? They want to be sneakybut effective. Here's how we see it.

By targeting carefully selected individuals who are having an impact,they seek to censor debate and resolution of issues in ways contrary tothe elitist agenda. Two examples are within our personalexpertience. One is Rick Rozoff publisher of the StopNATO list onyahoo. Rick diligently reports on the activities of NATO, thuspainting a very sinister picture of the motives of that militaryorganization.

The other is the Eagle Watch newsletter.

By attacking these two lists, the oligarchs can inhibit our work withoutmost people knowing. They can distract our energies into endlessbattles to keep our lists up and running.

Here's what has happened to us in the past week.

We do a lot of research for some of our reports. The internetfacilitates our ability to "connect the dots". We useTHEIR documents to build our case against THEM. They try to stop usat every turn. They want to prevent us from getting and publishingthe facts. They also want to discredit us when they cannot ignoreus any more.

If you do searches at Google, they keep a record of all the searchesoriginating from your location. Google ranks hits in such a waythat the ones you may be after are way down the list. How manyhundreds of hits can any of us peruse in a day?? This effectivelyblocks important information. We push ahead regardless.

In a recent google search on a company called Quantum Rare EarthDevelopment Inc., the first several pages of hits were all coming up inGerman. How is this possible? We cannot use google dot combut are always redirected to google dot ca because google knows ourlocation. Yet when we attempt to research a Canadian company we gethits in Germany.

When we try another search engine, we get a different set of hits butthey are still dominated by google hits because other search engines usegoogle.

When we searched our name "kittoh", we found there are manyother kittohs out there. We chose an Ojibwe word for our pen nameand then found out it's also a word in Korean!! Now, there's akittoh on Facebook. Let us assure you, that is NOT us, notme.

We don't use Facebook though we have received many invitations to joinfriends and family on Facebook. We are convinced that the CIA isdocumenting everyone's social networks. Why do they want to knowall this information on us? There's no escape if they know who allyour friends and family are and where everyone is.

Some people say it doesn't matter. They figure they are protectedby the huge numbers of people using social networks. How couldanyone possibly monitor us all? The answer is they can't. Sothey use methods whereby specific individuals and groups are targetedbased on their effectiveness.

Indigenous are at the top of THEIR list because we are perceived as theirbiggest threat.

The various incidents in our life since the publication of "ImperialMinions" tells us that we are hitting our mark. Somebody ispretty pissed off about what we have written.

Since Tuesday's publication of our report, we have also had weird phonecalls and missing emails.

We all get a certain amount of unwanted telemarketing calls but how oftendo you get calls where nobody, real or machine, says anything when youpick up the phone?? We got 3 such calls on Wednesday morningpast. Why does this always happen right after publication of aparticularly damning report??

We had one call this week, where a machine screamed, "This is anational emergency..." No word of a lie, that is exactly whatit said in a most urgent tone. It was something about TAXES, wesoon hung up.

Now to the missing emails. When we post to the Eagle Watch list, wealso receive the posting as subscribers to the list. When we didnot receive Tuesday's report, we resent it as you may know. When westill did not receive it, we contacted our ISP. They told us themessages were in the "rescue queue" and that they would sendthem to us. Curious as ever, we asked what is the rescuequeue. Turns out with our spamguard set at high, some emails aregetting stopped in the rescue queue as suspected spam while other veryannoying crap is still getting through.

We looked at our "rescue queue" and found over 30 emails fromknown individuals, most at 6Nations as well as Rick Rozoff. We haveno idea how long this has been going on except to say, we were wonderingwhy some people had not written to us for some time. We managed torescue and download those 30 emails.

The tech guy at our ISP advised that we check our rescue queue moreoften. The following day we did that and found another batch ofemails, mostly from 6nations that were "suspected spam". When we attempted to rescue those emails, they got lost in space. The techie was not able to retrieve them, he said he could not SEEthem.

We're still trying to track down those important messages.

Meanwhile, we felt compelled to write on this topic. Our otherreports are still in the works. Our reports will continue as longas we have breath, eyes and mind to do it. If you have similarexperiences, we'd like to hear from you.

Kittoh

We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing foryour cyberphobic friends and relatives.

The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, bothIndigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and anassortment of English language media.

Notes and Sources
http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/14-10-2010/115363-machines_of_war_blackwater_monsanto_billgates-0/
Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
14.10.2010
Silvia Ribeiro
La Jornada

http://www.thenation.com/article/154739/blackwaters-black-ops
Blackwater's Black Ops
Jeremy Scahill September 15, 2010
"deniability is built in and should be a big plus."
Governmental recipients of intelligence services and counterterrorismtraining from Prince's companies include the Kingdom of Jordan, theCanadian military and the Netherlands police, as well as several USmilitary bases, including Fort Bragg, home of the elite Joint SpecialOperations Command (JSOC), and Fort Huachuca, where militaryinterrogators are trained, according to the documents. In addition,Blackwater worked through the companies for the Defense IntelligenceAgency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the US EuropeanCommand.

...

Some of the training Blackwater provided to Canadian military forces wasin Blackwater/TRC's "Mirror Image" course, where trainees liveas a mock Al Qaeda cell in an effort to understand the mindset andculture of insurgents. Company literature describes it as "aclassroom and field training program designed to simulate terroristrecruitment, training, techniques and operational tactics."Documents show that in March 2009 Blackwater/TRC spent $6,500 purchasinglocal tribal clothing in Afghanistan as well as assorted "propagandamaterials—posters, Pakistan Urdu maps, etc." for Mirror Image, andanother $9,500 on similar materials this past January in Pakistan andAfghanistan.

According to internal documents, in 2009 alone the Canadian military paidBlackwater more than $1.6 million through TRC. A Canadian militaryofficial praised the program in a letter to the center, saying itprovided "unique and valid cultural awareness and mission specificdeployment training for our soldiers in Afghanistan," adding that itwas "a very effective and operationally current training programthat is beneficial to our mission."

======================= DISCUSSION PAPER AVAILABLE in Print Format Only!!=======================
"A Calamity Threatens Your Happiness" by J."Kittoh" Stanley, 2010,
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Copies are still available.
This work, distributed by "gift or barter", is timely andcontroversial. It came about as a result of the phoney police-ledanti uranium mining protests at Sharbot Lake in 2007 and covers relatedincidents in nearby Ongwehonweh and Anishnaabek communities. There's loads of info on the nuclear industry, Canadian militarization,water diversion and much more.
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My how time flies! Tomorrow is January 14, 2012, and voting for District 1 Elections for tribal council has arrived. Polling places will be open from 7 am to 7 pm. For more information go to http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32859/Press_Article.aspx

Once again, the Office of Veterans Affairs will kick off their annual “Valentines for Vets” campaign. They are asking individuals, departments, schools, classes, churches, youth groups and civic organizations to let our veterans know how much we appreciate them by gathering valentines for our vets. The deadline for the Valentines will be February 10, 2012. If you have any questions, please call Office of Veterans Affairs at (918) 453-5695 or e-mail rnoble@cherokee.org.

See you at the polls!

Wado! (Thank you)
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Cherokee Nation taking Applications for Tahlequah, Pryor Apartments:1/12/2012 3:35:15 PM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is taking applications to fill tribally managed three-bedroom apartments in Tahlequah and Pryor.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32896/Press_Article.aspx

Cherokee Nation Foundation selects Recipients for Innovative Scholarship Program:1/12/2012 3:29:39 PM
© Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation Foundation, in partnership with Cherokee Nation Businesses, has selected 28 students to pioneer a new program focusing on the importance of an education in science, technology, engineering and math.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32895/Press_Article.aspx

iPads Coming to W.W. Hastings Hospital Care Team:1/11/2012 9:35:43 AM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation recently received an award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region allowing them to buy 30 iPads for health care professionals at the tribe’s hospital in Tahlequah.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32891/Press_Article.aspx

Silversmithing Class enrolling at Cherokee Arts Center:1/10/2012 10:11:47 AM
© Cherokee Nation
Enrollment is open for silversmithing classes at the Cherokee Arts Center, 212 S. Water St., in downtown Tahlequah. Classes are on Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. beginning Jan. 26 and will run through March 15. Course instructor is Steve Mashburn.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32890/Press_Article.aspx

Cherokee Nation Awarded Suicide Prevention Grant:1/10/2012 10:02:02 AM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation was recently awarded a grant that will help fund suicide prevention efforts. The tribe is the recipient of a Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32889/Press_Article.aspx

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From the Eagle Watch
January 17, 2012

These two articles provide a context for how widespread this radiationhas now spread. What else are we not being told???

Like many articles, this first one tries to make it sound like things arebetter in the USA. Give me a break!!

Kittoh

Radioactive iodine inrainwater:
Public was in thedark

by Alex Roslin, The (Montreal) Gazette, January 14, 2012

http://tinyurl.com/6wl8khs

After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials
assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had
drifted to Canada.

But last March, a Health Canadamonitoring station in Calgary

detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive

iodine (an isotope released by the nuclear accident) in rainwater,

the data shows.

The level easily exceeded the Canadian guideline of six becquerels

of iodine per litre for drinking water, acknowledged Eric Pellerin,

chief of Health Canada's radiation-surveillance division.

"It's above the recommended level (for drinking water)," hesaid in

an interview. "At any time you sample it, it should not exceed the

guideline."

Canadian authorities didn't disclose the high radiation reading at

the time.

In contrast, the state of Virginia issued a don't-drink-rainwater

advisory in late March after iodine levels in rain in a nearby city

spiked to 3.4 becquerels per litre on a single day. That was less

than half of the level seen in Calgary during the entire month of

March.

Radioactive iodine also appeared in smaller amounts in March

in Vancouver (which saw an average of 0.69 becquerels per litre

in rainwater, up from zero before Fukushima), Winnipeg (which

got 0.64 becquerels per litre) and Ottawa (which had 1.67

becquerels per litre), the data shows.

These other levels didn't exceed the Canadian limit for drinking

water. But the level in Ottawa did surpass the more stringent

ceiling for drinking water used by the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency.

The data still isn't posted on Health Canada's web page devoted

to the impacts of Fukushima.

Pellerin said he doesn't know why Health Canada didn't make the

data public. "I can't answer that. The communication aspect could

be improved."

The rainwater data also raises questions about how Ottawa

monitors radiation after a nuclear crisis:

Some of Health Canada's numbers are much lower than

those reported by other radiation researchers. Simon

Fraser University nuclear chemist Krzysztof Starosta found

iodine levels in rainwater in Burnaby, B.C., spiked to 13

becquerels per litre in March -- many times higher than the

levels Health Canada detected in nearby Vancouver.

Rain was tested only at the end of each month, after a

network of monitoring stations sent samples to Ottawa. This

meant the radiation spikes last March were only discovered

in early April, after rainwater samples were sent to Ottawa

for testing -- too late to alert the public, including thosewho

collect rain for drinking and gardening.

In contrast, the EPA tested the rain for radiation every day

and immediately reported the data on its website.

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

CBS: Texas Water Radiation Cover-Up

An investigative report by a Houston, Texas TVnews
station revealed a shocking "conspiracy of the highest
order" by the Texas State Government in their blatant
cover-up of radiation poisoning in the public water supply.

Video:

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MNN website: Erland Campbell of Native Web Markets, 6275 Place Northcrest, Montreal, Quebec, H3S 2N3, 514-400-3112.

He received $1,500 in advance to make minor changes. The original remained online. The site he produced is a mere shell of the original. Before launching it, Campbell demanded $500 in cash immediately. He refused to complete the job.

Campbell then sent threatening emails [copies have been kept] trying to extort money, which caused me anxiety and fear.

Then the original site online disappeared.

The host in Norway said that the 'owner' [not me] had changed the original MNN password and requested that the site be suspended. I convinced the server to reinstall a new password.

The RCMP Anti-Fraud Centre advised me to go to the local police, make a report and insist on a follow up with the web master. Since he was paid and kept the product, it could constitute theft.

The host in Norway worked very hard to restore the old website which reappeared on the morning of January 17, 2012.

As Chief Seattle said: "Man did not weave the web of life. He is but a mere strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself".

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John Ivison: Pragmatic motives behind Stephen Harper’s meeting with First Nations

Spread the word. Every invitation counts:

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Sir John A. Macdonald “thumped no tubs, he banged no pulpits,” according to biographer Donald Creighton. Even when debating as ambitious a project as Confederation, he refused to pander to romanticism. “I am satisfied not to have a reputation for indulging in imaginary schemes and harbouring visionary ideas … always utopian and never practical,” he said.

That passage came to mind while watching Stephen Harper’s new interview with Peter Mansbridge on CBC. The Prime Minister was asked whether he hopes significant changes will result from his first meeting with the collective native leadership at a Crown-First Nations gathering next week in Ottawa.

“The obvious answer is yes. Significant change needs to happen. Aboriginal people are not anywhere near where we want them, or need, those communities to be. That said, my own experience is that it will not be grand visions and declarations that achieve these things – it will be moving forward, one step at a time in areas like water and investment in education,” he said.

Like The Man Who Made Us, to pilfer the title of Richard Gwyn’s excellent Macdonald biography, Mr. Harper is never utopian and always practical.

But while the rhetoric may be less grandiloquent than that used by Shawn Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, who talks of “resetting the relationship” between the Crown and First Nations, the very fact that Mr. Harper has agreed to the meeting indicates the seriousness with which he is treating the issue. While no “big bang” deal is likely to emerge, neither is this a merely symbolic meeting.

The reason is not benevolence – hardly one of Mr. Harper’s stronger suits – but necessity. As he pointed out, Canada needs its First Nations to be net contributors to the economy in the coming years, rather than a drain on the national treasury. The Prime Minister noted in his interview that we are staring at an ageing workforce and labour shortages in the decades to come. As it stands, the native population is not well-placed to take advantage of these opportunities – more than half First Nations people are younger than 25 but less than half graduate from high school.

The demographics suggest native Canadians could either contribute to the solution or exacerbate the problem, depending on policy decisions being made now. In the decade between 1996 and 2006, the aboriginal population grew 45%, compared to 8% for non-aboriginals. The registered Indian population alone is projected to grow a further 40% to more than one million people by 2029. Reserves that are struggling to house and educate the current population are expected to grow by a further 250,000 people in the next two decades. The threat to the Canadian standard of living, not to mention public safety, is high, if this young, booming population grows up to become angry, under-educated, unskilled and unemployed.

This explains why the Prime Minister wrapped the aboriginal issue in with other challenges to Canada’s long-term fiscal well-being in his CBC interview. “We have immediate challenges because of the global economic situation but the other things we are turning our mind to are the challenges that will confront us very soon after we resolve our immediate problems – an ageing workforce, where more and more people are retired and fewer and fewer people are working,” he said.

Seen through this prism, aboriginal policy is as much about economics, not unlike another issue Mr. Harper said is being reviewed: the sustainability of public service pensions.

It is for utilitarian, rather than altruistic, reasons that First Nations can finally have confidence that the government is serious about alleviating poverty on reserves. They will have to give some ground on the transparency that the Tories are demanding but, for the first time, they have the undivided attention of the whole government to make their case on land issues, health, housing, education and economic development.

It is the latter two areas that are of real interest to the government. The national panel charged by the Conservatives and the AFN to look at long-term solutions will not have reported by next Tuesday’s meeting, but it would be a major surprise if it was at odds with a Senate report released in November that recommended Ottawa introduce legislation that sets up First Nations school boards and increases funding per student to provincial levels.

The Tories are also keen on bringing in a First Nations Property Ownership Act, which would widen private property ownership on reserves.

If both sides can resist their tendency to tub-thump, the Crown-First Nation gathering may at least build a degree of trust that would allow more transformative change to happen further on down the road.

National Post

• Email: jivison@nationalpost.com

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From the Eagle Watch #206

One Simple Fact
Commentary
January 20, 2012

Just hours after publishing "Imperial Minions", we were readinga paper by University of Regina political science professor, JoyceGreen. She points out an important fact: the Indigenouspopulation in Saskatchewan now equals or exceeds the nonNativepopulation.

Instead of being assimilated, we are a growing population of distinctlyIndigenous people all across the land. We survive against allodds.

No wonder then, the vociferous rise in antiNative sentiments, press andbehaviour especially in the West. Organizations like the FCPPFrontier Centre for Public Policy and the CTF Canadian TaxpayersFederation play on the fear and anger among Canadians. AsIndigenous become more visible by our very numbers, we are being used asscapegoats for all their problems.

In many Indigenous communities, half of the people are under the age of25. There are few old people and fewer Elders. These youngIndigenous people face many obstacles and distractions. Who isthere to guide them?

Green also writes about urban Native street gangs whose alleged rallyingcry is hatred of "Whites". The reality is that manystreet Youth have no one but each other in a predatory world where theyare victim and villified.

The other day, a flyer arrived in the mail from local MP ScottReid. It was all about guess what?? The big glaring headlinewas pointed, "First Nations chiefs should revealspending".

Slippery Scott includes a questionnaire, "What do youthink?". You can either agree, "Yes, AboriginalCanadians deserve accountable government" or you can disagree,"No, First Nations government shouldn't be moreaccountable."

What a twisted presumptuous choice he lays out! It's sort oflike inviting a vegetarian to a banquet and telling him, he has achoice: roast pork or roast beef! The one doing the invitingisn't even the host but someone passing through. Either way, Scottprefers you don't do any thinking.

Speaking of parties, Scott "Who Doesn't Speak to Anyone WhoDisagrees with Him" Reid sent out another flyer a few days laterinviting everyone to his New Years celebrations in Perth and Napanee thisweekend. See endnotes for details in case you want to go. Guess what or who they'll be talking about?

Imperial minions like Scott Reid remain blind to Original Peoples' trueNature through decrepit concepts like "civilization","savages" and their sense of "inherentsuperiority". They will continue to fear us and hate us andseek to destroy us. That they have already FAILED should be evidentbut they are stubborn and very very afraid.

Kittoh

We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing foryour cyberphobic friends and relatives.

The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, bothIndigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and anassortment of English language media.

Notes and Contact Info
1. "Imperial Minions, Transparent Rednecks and DirtyDrawers", January 11, 2012 by Kittoh
available in the Eagle Watch Archives at:

and at its "permanent home" at

2. "From Stonechild to Social Cohesion: Anti-Racist Challengesfor Saskatchewan"
Joyce Green
Department of Political Science and the Women’s Studies Program
University of Regina
Presentation to the Canadian Political Science Association
A9(b): Theory, Policy and Pedagogy of Decolonization
University of Western Ontario

3. Scott Reid MP Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington
New Years celebrations:
from 1 - 3 pm
January 21, 2012 Civitan Hall, 6787 County Road 43, Perth [on the road toSmiths Falls]
January 22, 2012 Strathcona Paper Centre, 16 MacPherson Drive, (offRichmond Blvd) Napanee.

Scott Reid MP
House of commons
Ottawa ON K1A0A6
1-866-277-1577
reids@parl.gc.ca
www.scottreid.ca

Constituency Offices
Carleton Place
6 Lake Ave, W, Carleton Place, ON K7C 1L2
Tel: (613) 257-8130 Fax: (613) 257-4371
Toll-Free: 1-866-277-1577
Napanee
4 Market Square Napanee, ON K7R 1J3
Tel: (613) 354-1948 Fax: (613) 354-0924
Toll-Free: 1-866-929-0092

Parliament Hill Office
Tel: (613) 947-2277 Fax: (613) 947-2278

Letters addressed to a Member of Parliament don't need a stamp.

REID, Scott, B.A., M.A.
Current Member of The House of Commons
Date of Birth (yyyy.mm.dd): 1964.01.25
Place of Birth: Hull, Quebec, Canada
Occupation: Author, journalist

Political Affiliation:
Conservative Party of Canada (2003)
(2003.12.23 - )
Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance
(2000.11.27 - 2003.12.22)

Constituency Date of Election (yyyy.mm.dd) Result
Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington, Ontario 2006.01.23 Elected
Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington, Ontario 2004.06.28 Elected
Lanark--Carleton, Ontario 2000.11.27 Elected

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Tip a Marshal night is Monday, January 23. Come to Del Rancho Restaurant here in Tahlequah and get ‘served’ by our Cherokee Nation Marshals from 5PM-11PM. That’s right. Let our Cherokee Nation Marshals be your waiters/waitresses for the evening. All tips go to the Marshal Services’ Fundraiser for the Special Olympics Oklahoma Polar Plunge.

Have you ever wanted to have a personal connection to your ancestor’s experience with a Journey of your own? If you are a Cherokee Nation citizen, enrolled in high school or college in good academic standing, at least 15 years old and in good physical shape to commit to a 950 mile journey, applications are being accepted for the 2012 Remember the Removal Ride commemorating the Cherokee Nation forced removal from its homelands during the winter of 1838-39, commonly known as the Trail of Tears. You can apply online at: http://www.remembertheremoval.org/

Wado! (Thank you)
Cherokee Nation
P.O.Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465
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Cherokee Nation Industries Honored with Prestigious Bell Premier Supplier Award:1/19/2012 3:30:10 PM
© Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation Industries, the manufacturing and distribution division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, has been recognized by Bell Helicopter as being in the top 10 percent of the company’s suppliers.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32918/Press_Article.aspx

Cherokee Nation Honors Veterans at Tribal Council Meeting:1/19/2012 2:27:46 PM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation honored three Vietnam veterans, one who served in the Air Force and the other two in the Army, at this month’s Tribal Council meeting in Tahlequah.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32917/Press_Article.aspx

Record Number of Children Receive Christmas Gifts from Cherokee Nation Angel Tree:1/19/2012 1:10:14 PM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation Angel Tree set a new record this Christmas season by ensuring that more than 1,700 needy children received Christmas presents.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32916/Press_Article.aspx

Pottery class available at Cherokee Arts Center:1/18/2012 11:08:10 AM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Arts Center has a pottery class available in Tahlequah for adults who are interested in learning how to make traditional clay pottery.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32915/Press_Article.aspx

Cherokee Nation Offers Classes for New Business Owners:1/17/2012 10:54:16 AM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is hosting a series of business entrepreneurship classes in February that teach new business owners how to write a successful business plan.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32914/Press_Article.aspx

Tribal Council Confirms New Secretary of State, Five CNB Board Nominees :1/17/2012 9:33:51 AM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation now has a new Secretary of State. The Tribal Council confirmed Charles Head Monday night at its regular January meeting.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32913/Press_Article.aspx

Students Compete to become Cherokee Language Bowl Champs:1/16/2012 2:42:01 PM
© Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation recently held the Cherokee Language Bowl, a competition promoting the study, use and retention of the Cherokee language.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32907/Press_Article.aspx

Byrd wins Cherokee Tribal Council District 1 Seat:1/15/2012 10:56:04 AM
© Cherokee Nation
According to unofficial results, former chief Joe Byrd is elected to Cherokee Tribal Council District 1 seat.
http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32903/Press_Article.aspx

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Bear Gonzales

6:52pm Jan 20

The first treaty entered into by the Cherokees resulted in the cession of 2600 square miles in the area of what is present-day South Carolina. The treaty was between the Cherokee and England, who recognized Cherokee Nation as a world government before there was a United States. The year was 1721.

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Aim Southern Cal

2:51am Jan 23

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ballona-wetlands-20120121,0,2930790.story

California OKs $6.5 million to plan Ballona Wetlands restoration

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In a first step toward restoring one of Southern California's few remaining wetlands and opening it ...

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Aim Southern Cal

3:27am Jan 23

We are so lucky to have warm weather all year round, but some of our relatives are not so lucky!~
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FROM FREEDOM TO SARCASM

MNN Jan. 22,2012. Freedom requires responsibility [Kaianerehkowa]. The unsurrendered land, water, air and resources above, beneath and on Great Turtle Island is the birthright of the Indigenous peoples. The bankers and their agents want to steal it all. Our resistance to genocide is causing panic.

Here's their plan.

Lie about economic prosperity and ending mass unemployment. Increase military spending. Build more prisons.

Set up secret police outside of civil authority. Rescind habeas corpus and civil liberties. [US Defense Authorization Act; Canada Omnibus Crime Bill.] Bribe, destroy, kill, imprison opponents.

Remove citizenship rights [US Enemy Expatriation Act]. Wear non-person ID in public. Send resisters back to country of origin! [Bye!]

Special courts for death sentences. Execute soldiers for cowardice! [Or give them more meds.]

Centralize power under one leader. Assassinations to restore order. Swear oath to leader like Canada to the Queen.

Control courts and civic organizations. Disband state and local governments. Appoint governors, premiers, mayors.

Divide and rule. Rich fight the poor. Racial conflicts intensified. Religious-based parties control education and youth groups.

Promote Pan Americanism based on white culture, to defend western civilization from 'brown sub-humans'.

Criminalize the truth. Ban questioners. Indigenous continue to be hated and feared [for existing]. Book burnings [Stop Arizona brown market in Indian books]. Teach race superiority dogma. [Guess which is at the top of the totem pole?]. Fire teachers who oppose.

Control mainstream media [A done deal].

Kill the internet [SOPA]. Produce entertainment, films, mass rallies and rhetoric to push corporatist ideology down our throats.

Create economic depression. Then make up fantasies to restore fake national pride.

Unreasonable foreign policy. Demand surrender or threaten war. No compromise. No reparation to peoples or countries attacked.

Create enemies. Get another country to invade. Send ultimatums demanding all their power or face invasion. Step in. Bomb. Call for elections. Put in puppets. Set up quislings.

Form alliances with dictators or replace them. Set up spies and informers. Install tribal/band council-like entities to control masses and report on them.

Infiltrate and suppress labor unions and strikes.

[If we're lucky] The US might threaten to pull out of or destroy the UN if they can't own it.

Form secret and illegal alliances like the North American Union NAU. Annex Canada and Mexico. Suppress revolts. Businesses owned by western interests. Native land and resource owners do menial work.

Sign pacts to divide up world dominated by a small group of rulers.

Create fear of travel, such as airport TSA groping passengers and mysterious shipwreck in Italy.

Heavy fines or long prison terms for crimes like parking tickets, spitting on the sidewalk or free speech.

US and Canada are conservative authoritarian corporations. Their citizens are property of the corporations, squatting on a land they don't own. The youth want their corporations to give them a piece of the Indigenous pie.

Over 100 million Indigenous were murdered in the attempt. They need to decolonize and respect the legal ownership of Great Turtle Island.

The white house or congress or parliament could be graffitied to signal a civil unrest over something that doesn't belong to them.

Look for more false flags such as the World Trade Center and laws without parliamentary or congressional debate.

Open attack on uncooperative Indigenous communities. Human rights violated. Deprivation of necessities of life.

Canada's Prime Minister Harper wants to revive the old ghetto policy to keep us in deplorable conditions to carry out the final solution. [Mother Earth segregated all of Great Turtle Island for us].

Death by warfare, genocide, reprisals, forced labor and starvation to carry out the Pan Americanisation of the western hemisphere.

Dictators studied these US strategies [Wasichu] of atrocities, mass murders, concentration camps, ethnic cleansing and theft on a grand scale.

The great natural power preserved us and continues to do so. We don't have a standing army. We have the dreaded truth.

As Oscar Wilde said: When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood, [and a forked tongue] it's hard to shake hands with her.

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Sewage spill threatens First Nation’s health

Support the cause. Be counted:

I Read This

First Nations chiefs told the Prime Minister Tuesday their lives are constricted by “layer upon layer of bureaucracy.” In Kasabonika Lake First Nation, an overflowing sewage plant and limited electrical capacity are examples of that.

The First Nation, located 800 kilometres north of Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, estimates it’s missing out on more than $9 million worth of jobs and economic opportunities as Aboriginal Affairs delays funding for its sewage plant and diesel generator.

Waste water began spilling into the lake from the community’s sewage plant more than a decade ago. A series of letters provided to CBC by the First Nation show a cycle of Aboriginal Affairs funding studies to fix the problem. It then told the First Nation there is no money to pay for the fix.
'We just go ahead and do it'

Kasabonika Lake First Nation built an illegal trench, off-reserve, where it’s trucking some of its sewage to keep it out of the lake.

“We don’t have time to wait, we just go ahead and do it, otherwise we’d be killing our own people,” said Abe Wabasse, the administrator for the sewage plant.

Still, Wabasse worries about the overflow from the plant that runs into the lake where people get their drinking water.

The First Nation provided a similar series of letters from Aboriginal Affairs pertaining to its diesel generator. Diesel is used to make electricity in remote First Nations that are not connected to the hydro grid.

Aboriginal Affairs funded a $61,000 feasibility study in 2009 and $865,000 for design work in 2010. Kasabonika Lake First Nation went ahead and spent more than $1 million on the components for a new generator last year. They’re sitting in shipping containers on the reserve, after Aboriginal Affairs said the construction funds were no longer available.

On the Kasabonika First Nation, about 940 people live on reserve. Only 137 of the homes are deemed adequate.On the Kasabonika First Nation, about 940 people live on reserve. Only 137 of the homes are deemed adequate. (Jody Porter/CBC)
No infrastructure means no new homes

“So, right now, if we don’t get those dollars until 2013 or 2014, we won’t be doing any housing,” said band councillor Gordon Morris.

With no new electrical capacity and no sewage capacity, no new homes can be built in Kasabonika Lake.

But families keep expanding. About 940 people live on reserve, and only 137 of the homes are deemed adequate.

Elders Mina and Steven Anderson moved into the un-insulated shed in their yard so their children and grandchildren can have their house.

Water jugs at Steve and Mina Anderson's one-room shack, which has no running water.Water jugs at Steve and Mina Anderson's one-room shack, which has no running water. (Jody Porter/CBC)

It’s not just housing being restricted by the lack of infrastructure. A new business centre has been scrapped and the First Nation laments its inability to capitalize on a regional mining boom.

Hydro One wrote a letter supporting Kasabonika’s push for a new diesel generator and called the First Nation “well-managed and progressive.”

Morris said it’s difficult keeping that reputation without help for the capital projects from Aboriginal Affairs.

“It’s just going to get worse,” Morris said. “That’s all I can say, because we have no funding, even though our First Nation has been very innovative in accessing funds.”

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"When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane.

When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person.

When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful.

Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen

Update On Boycott

2012-01-23T12:10:00.001-08:00

Boycott McIntosh

Several folks have said that they would like to help with the trouble in McIntosh. But they don't know how.What you can do is this. Pass on the word to boycott McIntosh County, Ga. (non essential (essential is like food, EMC, etc) Businesses, especially the BP (Gas station is a BP not a Texaco) at the Eulonia, Ga. exit that is right next to a feed store off I-95 in McIntosh County, Ga. and real estate, or other investment type situations or even locating businesses here. until the law enforcement gets serious about solving crime here. Tell everyone not to buy real estate, homes or make any investments here. Then when people ask you whytell them that until the get serious about solving the criminal element here, no money will scome to McIntosh County, Ga.Pass the word on and tell everyone that you know. Boycott McIntosh County, Ga. until they get serious about solving crime.Thanks,Dave

What we are asking from our boycott.

(1) All harassment by land, air or sea stop of those of us who have no part of their illegal drug activity or for those of us who are part of this coalition and who at this time are doing no other criminal activity

(2) That law enforcement here is properly equipped to do investigations.
(3) That law enforcement when called actually take a report when we ask them to come out and they actually write it up, and that a copy of the report will actually be available to those of us who call them.
(4) That regular patrols of qualified law enforcement officers patrol our streets at regular intervals each day and when they are called that they respond quickly instead of 45 minutes to and hour or longer.
(5) That no retribution will be taken against anyone who is part of this coalition by any entity or person within or without of McIntosh.
(6) That existing state laws about celebratory gunfire actually be enforced
(7) That law enforcement will actually talk to those who do harass other residents and tell them to cease their activities or face jail. Then actually put them in jail if they don't stop.
(8) That members of this coalition not be followed around or spied on or harassed whether by law enforcement, private agencies, residents, friends or relatives of residents or any other person hired or volunteered or asked to do such activities.
(9) That no "bugs," taps, or "spying" types of devices be legally or illegally attached to any phones or vehicles or positioned from any location so as to spy on any member of this coalition. We are not criminals and should not be treated as such.

(10) All Law enforcement should be certified to be officers, not just folks "sworn in" (unless an emergency arises) who don't know the proper law enforcement procedures.

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"When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane.

When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person.

When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful.

Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen

What we are asking from our boycott.

2012-01-19T12:55:00.001-08:00

What we are asking from our boycott.

(1) All harassment by land, air or sea stop of those of us who have no part of their illegal drug activity or for those of us who are part of this coalition and who at this time are doing no other criminal activity

(2) That law enforcement here is properly equipped to do investigations.

(3) That law enforcement when called actually take a report when we ask them to come out and they actually write it up, and that a copy of the report will actually be available to those of us who call them.

(4) That regular patrols of qualified law enforcement officers patrol our streets at regular intervals each day and when they are called that they respond quickly instead of 45 minutes to and hour or longer.

(5) That no retribution will be taken against anyone who is part of this coalition by any entity or person within or without of McIntosh.

(6) That existing state laws about celebratory gunfire actually be enforced

(7) That law enforcement will actually talk to those who do harass other residents and tell them to cease their activities or face jail. Then actually put them in jail if they don't stop.

(8) That members of this coalition not be followed around or spied on or harassed whether by law enforcement, private agencies, residents, friends or relatives of residents or any other person hired or volunteered or asked to do such activities.

(9) That no "bugs," taps, or "spying" types of devices be legally or illegally attached to any phones or vehicles or positioned from any location so as to spy on any member of this coalition. We are not criminals and should not be treated as such.
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Pass The Word On Please

2012-01-18T18:09:00.001-08:00

Several folks have said that they would like to help with the trouble in McIntosh. But they don't know how.

Well we had more gunfire tonight between 7 and 7:30 pm. They had their spotter plane circling for a long time.

As soon as he saw me he made a course above us close to our property then disappeared toward the west.

The criminals waited a while then had some of their spotter vehilces drive by and off in the distance was one gunshot of celebratory gunfire.

They are also coming up to the property to harass the dogs after dark.

What you can do is this. Pass on the owrd to boycott McIntosh County, Ga. Busuinesses, especially the Texaco at the Eulonia, Ga. exit tht is right next to a feed store off I-95 in McIntosh County, Ga.

until the law enforcement gets serious about solving crime here. Tell everyone not to buy real estate, homes or make any investments here. Then when people ask you why

tell them that until the get serious about solving the criminal element here, no money will scome to McIntosh County, ga.

Pass the word on and tell everyone that you know. Boycott McIntosh County, Ga. until they get serious about solving crime.

Thanks,

Dave

More Harassment Gunfire

2012-01-16T12:02:00.000-08:00

Local village idiot had spotter plane fly over. As soon as he saw me doing some very gentle exercises a lower caliber of gunfire began. He came from across the street to go to the other man's property and shoot then went back to across the street. They have a system. No use calling law enforcement they won't do a thing anyway.

Daily Harassment

2012-01-14T09:30:00.000-08:00

Welcome to McIntosh County, Ga. where celebratory gunfire (which is illegal) goes on all the time. Where con men can get a National Park which ancient Native burials and villages the want to put a subdivision on, most of which didn't belong to their ancestors and they sold it, where the law enforcement has no finger printing kits or footprint casts, where durgs are smuggled in regularly off the coast, they kill horses for sport, steal anything even your dog etc and laws are not enforced. A Criminal paradise.

And so the lunatic up the road makes his daily offering of celebratory gunfire (pretending he's truing in his big gun which if he were any good would have been "trued" in long before his 5 hrs. of gunfire one day). No use calling the cops here. They don't care.

Indigenous News

2012-01-11T20:08:00.001-08:00

Indigenous News

From the Eagle Watch #198
December 27, 2011

We are posting here a compilation of information sent in by Kabespirabout the recent sentencing of one of the Ongwehonweh resisters at SixNations Grand River Territory. See below.

For full background info on the incidents at Grand River Territory 2007,etc. see MNN Mohawk Nation News. This is a very complex picturewith many players not being entirely as they present themselves. Here FYI a few excerpts from MNN:

FIVE THUGS ATTACK 2 SIX NATIONS YOUTH
MNN. Sept. 15, 2007. On September 13th at around 4:00 pm.witnesses saw non-native men running out, picking up weapons and goingback into the unfinished house. Inside five non-native men hadambushed two Indigenous youth. Their backs were against the wall,the two youth defended themselves. The youth had gone into thehouse, one going one way and the other in another direction. Theolder Indigenous boy caught one of the non-native men beating his youngerbrother.

...It is worth noting that the OPPolice were there throughout theincident “to maintain the peace”. They had not verified that allworkers had left or that the area was secure. They stood by andwatched the non-native men go into the house with clubs. They didnot help the two Indigenous youths who were being attacked inside. The OPP admitted, “We were caught off guard”.

...Apparently two Indigenous youth had entered the “empty” building andsurprised the non-natives who were inside. It was the Gualtieribrothers, Sam and Joe, and their three nephews, of Caledonia. Theystarted to beat one of the youth, a very young teenager. The olderyouth walked in and found Sam Gualtieri had his young brother against thewall with a bar pressed across his throat, ready to kill him. Hegrabbed whatever he could find to save his young brother. JoeGualtieri watched as his brother Sam took a beating. These burlyguys and their nephews were over confident. They had numbers,strength and weight on their side, while the kids were fighting for theirlives..."

WHAT GIVES?
CHIEFS, CLAN MOTHERS & DEVELOPER ORDER ARREST OF SIX NATIONSDEFENDERS FOR “MIS’CHIEF” – MNN Special
MNN. Sept. 20, 2007.
...The defenders’ self-control was amazing. Truly amazing! The defenders knew that if one of the cops got hurt, they would beblamed. Most of the people arrested were women in theirtwenties and thirties, some younger and one elder, and a fewmen. Most were beaten in the encounter. All emerged with uglyblack and blue bruises under their arms, all down the sides of theirbodies and back and down their
legs. Some had bumps on their heads. These were the scars ofwhat the cops call “gentle arrests”. Remember, the ratio was 200 to1.

...Asked what they were charged with, the defenders said, “Missing thechiefs” [mischief]...

...The construction on Stirling Street had been closed down. Allthe workers were supposed to have left, including the Gualtieris. The place was crawling with police. But what were theirorders? Were they sleeping? Weird, eh!

According to the video tape and eye witnesses, five members of theGualtieri family, two brothers in their 50s, and 3 nephews in their 30s,marched into the unfinished mansion carrying weapons and baseballbats. Why didn’t the police stop them? Aren’t theysupposed to protect hotheads from their own stupidity?

Once the Gualtieris got inside the mansion, they attacked some Indigenousyouths who had gone in there to check for movements they had citedwithin. One of the older Gualtieris pinned a young boy against thewall by the throat with some kind of a pipe or pole. His terrifiedcompanion tried to save him. The younger Gualtieris ran out of thehouse leaving their uncle gawking at the scene. When the youthsstruggled free, and another one got out of the Port-a-Potti outside, thekids left. Then the cops went in and helped load the Gualtieri intoan ambulance. There were all kinds of wild rumors. Thehospitalized Gualtieri was said to be fighting for his life. Inreality, he was home in
less than a week. "

Kabespir does a lot of support work for the Six Nations, especially theOneida. She is a nonStatus Ongwehonweh living inPennsylvania.

This is Kabespir's report with some slight editing by Kittoh.
[Kittoh's remarks are in square brackets]
Kittoh

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Well, folks,
This is way too much to go into in this short report, but since it is inthe news and some more "fallout" is sure to come, consider thisa simple report of findings that are recent on "Caledonia", andthe Dec. 23, 2011 trial and sentencing of Richard Smoke of "SixNations". He is now 22 and was about 18 at the time of hisarrest for allegedly "beating" a man in 2007.

Smoke was sentenced on Dec. 23, 2011.

More than a news blurb, there are many facts found while looking for away to let all of you know about this recent sentencing.

It's actually very hard to find a "fair version" of RichardSmoke being given a 2 year sentence with "time served" (since2007) for the alleged beating of a "home-builder" on the landduring the Caledonia incident which was perpetuated by the likes of GaryMcHale and other whites moving in on the land that wasn't theirs.

Even enwikipedia, seems to not have all of the "facts" as wemay know them to be true. [wiki often doesn't have all the facts straight- check your sources carefully]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_River_land_dispute

(Here, it should be noted that archaeologists were all along theGrand River this summer digging without any of the Indigenous People fromSix Nations knowing about it until about 3 weeks ago.)

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Native+attacker+gets+reduced+sentence+vicious+assault/5909082/story.html

You can read the same article in more places. [the mainstreamarticles are an attack on our consciousness. anyone not up to dateon this stuff will be snowed under by the volume of confusinginformation. this is no accident.]

So, now the Gualtieri family says that Richard Smoke was "let offeasy because he is Aboriginal".

There's another side to this story. Apparently, the media doesn'twant to "go there".

Richard Smoke has already served time since 2007. (The MAX inCanada is 25 years even for a SERIAL KILLER (Picton, George Osmond'smurder of little Kayla John, etc.)

From a "blog" posted dec. 3, 2011 by one of McHale's cohortsin crime:

"Cayuga, Ont. • The words spoken in the old cut-stone courthouusewere quiet, meek and in boundless contrast to the leering swagger andantagonism displayed in 2007 during the height of the fiery nativeoccupation in Caledonia, which was when the assault being settled hereFriday actually took place.
Richard Smoke, a 22-year-old Six Nations man, spoke so quietly to hisvictim, non-native builder Sam Gualtieri, the judge asked him to repeathimself: â€œI would like to apologize to Mr. Gualtieri and his family forwhat he had to go through,â€ Smoke said. â€œI wouldnâ€™t wish that onanybody.â€ [this was a disgusting humiliation of Smoke - he won'tsoon forget it!!]
But as the last of several criminal cases stemming from the Caledonianative occupation almost wound down late Friday, tensions over thestill-occupied site near Hamilton, Ont., are set to flare again asnon-native activists promised to march onto the site Saturday to raise aCanadian flag."

Did they actually do so?
http://voiceofcanada.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/video-the-caledonia-eight-arrested/

They look so happy that they were arrested, especially GaryMcHale.

[chop chop] McHale saying:

"...We have to bring an end to race-based policing. We have 100acres of government-owned land that non-natives are not permitted to walkon. You might as well stick up signs that say â€˜No whitesallowed."

McHale said he has been notified by the Ontario Provincial Policethat if he steps onto the site he will be arrested and charged.

The local court did not even manage to get to the end of Smokeâ€™ssentencing from the last flash point before the planned march threatensto bring fresh accused before the courts, as what was expected to be aone-day hearing stretched to three days and then was adjourned untillater this month to allow for additional arguments.

Smokeâ€™s defence lawyer, Sarah Dover [side kick to Chris Reid and partof the "Pro Bono Club"], said her client had been profoundlyaffected by a culture of racism and urged Judge Alan Whitten to weigh theâ€œaboriginal perspectiveâ€ as a mitigating factor leading to a â€œbelowparâ€ sentence.

The Six Nations and Caledonia area, Ms. Dover told court, â€œwas a hotbedof controversy that the people here experienced with an incredibleintensity.â€

Here's a Dec. 2, 2011 picture of the supposedly severely damaged (braintoo) builder, Sam Gualtieri & wife:

Looks pretty "healthy" in body to me. (I know, being"disabled' doesn't always "show", being"disabled" myself.)

The link to "Jack's" blog will take you to the National articlewith the above pic by clicking "MORE" here:
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2011/12/03/as-the-caledonian-occupation-comes-to-a-close-in-court-its-issues-linger/

More here:
http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/richard-smoke/

"Judge Alan Whitten cited the sad legacy of residential schoolsand the disproportionately large population of incarcerated aboriginaloffenders as reasons why a harsher sentence was not given" belowanother picture of Sam the Builder and wife:

Picture outside the courthouse when Richard Smoke's sentencing wasgiven:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/02/as-the-caledonian-occupation-comes-to-a-close-in-court-its-issues-linger/

(Note: "It's issues linger"... speaks volumes. Volumes of what no one in mainstream media is apparently willing toaddress.)

"He was caught up in a â€œspontaneousâ€ emotional fray out ofcharacter for someone who had worked since the age of eight, has no priorcriminal record and whose childhood was â€œan incredible struggleâ€ —raised in poverty without running water and without ââ€œconsistentparental supervision.â€
Smoke was damaged by the â€œintergenerational impactsâ€ of theresidential school system, through which both sides of his familysuffered, she said. The attack should be viewed â€œagainst the backdropof discord between the Canadian government and aboriginal people.â€
The dissonance was shown in small measure by most of the family andfriends in court to support Smoke who declined to stand as the judgeentered and exited the courtroom, as is customary.
Crown attorney Alex Paparella urged Judge Whitten to impose apenitentiary sentence of six to eight years for the aggravated assaultand break and enter charges.
â€œAs a practical matter,â€ she said, quoting case law, â€œparticularlyviolent and serious offences will result in imprisonment for aboriginaloffenders as often as for non-aboriginal offenders.â€
The backdrop of aboriginal history is not the only context of this case,Ms. Paparella said: â€œThis is a serious, aggravated assault on a man whowas attempting, as a property owner, to ask Mr. Smoke to leave hishome.â€
For his part, Mr. Gualtieri was still pondering Smokeâ€™s quietapology.
â€œIt did nothing for me,â€ he said after court. â€œItâ€™s hard toprocess right now.â€
Smokeâ€™s sentencing resumes Dec. 23."
National Post
ahumphreys@nationalpost.com

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/644013--man-gets-23-months-for-beating-caledonia-builder

"Smokeâ€™s relative, Cheyenne Williams, said Smoke is reallya â€œsweet guyâ€ and his sentence was better than they had feared. TheCrown sought six to eight years.
While there is programming for incarcerated aboriginal people, there isno Six Nations-specific counselling, so they hope the shorter sentencewill mean Smoke will have a less difficult time reintegrating into hiscommunity, said Williams, whose uncle is married to Smokeâ€™s aunt.
â€œItâ€™s hard for us realizing that one of our young men is going into ajail system.â€
Defence counsel Sarah Dover said Whittenâ€™s ruling took both sides intoconsideration.
â€œVery significantly, Justice Whitten noted that the ongoing conflictbetween the aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities was a part of thebackdrop of this offence,â€ Dover said.
Dover is seeking clarity on whether Smoke will serve the sentence in afederal or provincial facility because Whitten had noted his intentionwas a penitentiary verdict, but he gave her client probation andreferenced provincial support programs."
dawong@thespec.com

Ultimately, Richard Smoke, only 18 years old at the time, has and isserving a sentence for this "crime". There are two sidesto the story. Google Gary McHale, Caledonia for more on his um.."activities".

Then, look at Ezra Levant's interview with McHale (Levant is the Canadian "Glenn Beck" of former Fox News propagandafame)

http://adognamedkyoto.blogspot.com/2011/05/ezra-interviews-gary-mchale-re.html
"CALEDONIA: INDIANS INDULGED
WHITE PEOPLE PURSECUTED"

Ah, but "blazing cat" closed their youtube acct. so you can'tlisten to what was said afterall. Plenty more Ezra Levant and GaryMcHale, "Indian haters", videos on youtube.
Get the picture? (Consider this just a snapshot of these fools...)
http://voiceofcanada.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/christmas-gods-gift-to-haldimand-county-by-gary-mchale/

Is "God's gift to Christians" Gary McHale? In HISopinion he appears to think so in the above!

This is just another drop in the "media bucket" and"non-media" bucket.

McHale wrote this "Christmas message" to all who mightlisten?

In part,
"I didnâ€™t come to Haldimand because a family member was beingattacked. I didnâ€™t come because my best friends lived here nor becausemy business was losing money due to the occupation. While my family didlive in Caledonia in the 1950s and I have two brother born here, I wasborn in Kingston and prior to July 2006 I had never been toCaledonia.
I came for one reason – I was compelled to. Yes, the people off HaldimandCounty were complete strangers to me but how could I claim to be a GoodSamaritan and ignore those who are in need. Donâ€™t get me wrong, it isnot that I am better than anyone else – after 30 years oof marriage youcan just ask my wife for the long list of my faults â€“ but if God hasdemonstrated His love to me through Jesus then how can I avoid sharingthat love with others?"

"Sharing the love"? What kind of "love" isMcHale trying to make us believe in? Certainly don't see any"love" in anything that Gary McHale gets his unclean hands on.

Then,
"This Christmas decide not to hide your head in the sand or becontrolled by fear, but decide to give the gift of Christmas to yourneighbour by standing up and being an advocate for truth, justice,equality and help bring an end to racism within government policies.
We Shall Overcome when Godâ€™s people pay a price as Jesus did. If youhave any questions call Merlyn Kinrade 905-765-5131 or me 289-286-0423email:info@GaryMcHale.ca."

By all means, call him. McHale is "salt and light","like Jesus"?

Then, I guess Richard Smoke has already "apologized", beenforgiven and should be released, right, Gary? That's the"Christian thing to do"? Right?

And, in between the lines, McHale DOES call for violence, evenkilling? And, justifies his words through "Jesus","Christianity", and "Judaism".

These "anti-christ's?" are planning to get arrested again inJanuary/February 2012. (according to Mark Vandermoss).

And, we thought "criminals were criminals"? Guess if youare white, and commit acts of violence, there is no crime? Talkabout a "special treatment". To instigate andincite violence is the SAME THING as actually committing the act ofviolence. It's called "Hate Crime". FOUR"arrests" later, McHale and his "Caledonia Eight"have not been held accountable for their CRIMES.

To which we could say, "Let off easy because they are white".

ONLY "Aboriginal" People like Smoke (and Powless, among others)have spent time in prison and will continue to spend time inprison.

HAH! And, "The Sun" (minus Ezra Levant) just came outwith this (while the above was being compiled!):
[the toronto sun is a rag comparable to the National Enquirer, asalacious old rag that profits from spectacle. worthington is anold fart in a wind storm]
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/12/26/worthington-sentence-too-lenient

The thing is this, in google images, the picture of Sam (theBuilder), is not "shopped" like the same photo used in"The Sun". The Sun lightened the picture, made it lookway more bloody and made it a vertical shot instead ofhorizontal.

AND, again, there is "INCITEMENT" of violence by Worthington inthis article:

"...itâ€™s hard to see how the mild sentence will persuade Smokeor others like him to refrain from lawless behaviour — especially whenthe OPP apparently are fearful of aggravating aboriginals, or havinganother Dudley George incident, as happened at the Ipperwashstand-off." [when OPP sniper Ken Deane shot and killed anunarmed Indigenous "protester".]

Worthington further shoots himself in the foot by stating:
"The beating of Gualtieri occurred when he arrived with workmanat a house he was building for his daughter, and saw people inside. Hewent in to roust them out."

DOES Worthington mean "ONE WORKER", OR MORE THAN ONEWORKER? Convenient "typo"?
Either way, Gualtieri was not alone, and went in to "roust themout", (threatened Smoke with bodily harm inferred) despite thepossibility of DEFENSE. Why didn't Gualtieri call thepolice? [they were right there]

When we find out where Richard Smoke will be incarcerated, we will postthe info. Maybe we can show some real "love" for theyoung man who got the blame and sentencing for what McHale and hiscronies started on Mohawk land.

This one's for Richard Smoke! The sentencing was TOO HARSH!

No Justice, No Peace,
Kabespir, INMWC, Investigative Reporter

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Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field
and in the policy arena to protect America's last wild buffalo.

Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
December 29, 2011

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* TAKE ACTION! Montana Seeks Public Comments on Wild Buffalo
* Update from the Field
* New! Endangered Buffalo Fact of the Week
* Other Actions to Take for Wild Buffalo
* Wildlife Database Software Used by BFC Available to You
* Start 2012 with a Wild Bison Calendar!
* BFC Wish List
* By the Numbers
* Last Words ~ CounterPunch: Jeffery St. Clair

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* TAKE ACTION! Montana Seeks Public Comments on Wild Buffalo

This new BFC logo by Timm Kurtz says it all! Let them roam! Click image for larger view.

The state of Montana is accepting public comments on their Draft Joint Environmental Assessment Adaptive Management Adjustments to the Interagency Bison Management Plan. Sound like a bureaucratic mouthful? It is a proposal to intensify livestock-model management of the last continuously wild population of American buffalo, within the Gardiner Basin, north of Yellowstone National Park. Montana is touting their plan as a step towards more tolerance and habitat for wild buffalo in Montana, however, BFC's initial review of the draft Environmental Assessment reveals that mismanagement techniques - including capture, confinement, dangerous vaccination, artificial feeding, test-and-slaughter, quarantine, scientific research, and increased hunting - would be profoundly escalated.

Learn more and please TAKE ACTION NOW! Comments are due by January 13, 2012.

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* Update from the Field

Photo by Mark Genito. Click photo for larger view.

Over the first week of the Winter Holidays, four buffalo were killed in two separate incidents. One bull was killed by a state hunter and three cow buffalo were killed by Confederated Salish-Kootenai tribal members hunting under treaty right. It is unclear if the three cows had calves. If so, we hope that the rest of the family group will care for them. In this particular incident BFC patrols documented the hunters using snowmobiles to reach the buffalo in areas of Gallatin National Forest that are closed to the machines in order to protect sensitive riparian habitat. These protected areas have helped to save numerous buffalo in recent years. Although BFC reported the violation we are unsure what actions the game wardens will take.

Before the hunters arrived last week a few family groups of wild buffalo were browsing just on the western edge of Yellowstone National Park. Naturally, they migrated west seeking winter range on Gallatin National Forest and in just a couple of days word got out that buffalo had crossed the line. Hunters soon arrived and four buffalo were killed. The remainder of the group vacated Montana and are, for now, safe. BFC volunteers have been seeing this behavior more and more; groups of buffalo migrate into areas where hunting is allowed, one or more are taken by hunters, and the rest of the group moves away from harm. While buffalo embody the gift of abundance, they are nobody's fools.

The cards are heavily stacked against wild buffalo with all the management schemes that the state and federal government have set up against them. It is no small task that BFC undertakes in advocating for their right to roam and lasting protection, but, with your continued support we will press on as long as it takes.

ROAM FREE!

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* NEW! Endangered Buffalo Fact of the Week

A winter glance. Photo by Larry Broder. Click photo for larger image.

FACT: The bison's historic range spanned 1/3 of North America's land mass, more than two billion acres, and the wildlife species evolved in over twenty distinct ecosystems. Scientists estimate that today the American bison occupies less than 1% of their historic range. (Sanderson; Geist)

Published paper can be downloaded and reviewed from here.

Have a fact you'd like to share with us? Email it to us.

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* Other Actions to Take for Wild Buffalo

1. Stop Federal Livestock Overseer from Harming Wild Buffalo!

2. Urge Congress to Pass Public Lands Grazing Bill!

3. Make a year-end donation to keep BFC strong and effective in the field and at every level of the policy arena. Donations are tax-deductible and go directly to BFC's critical program work.

4. Volunteer with BFC! Field volunteers are needed now through June. BFC provides room, board, gear and training. Please consider joining us on the front lines to work in defense of America's last wild buffalo! Learn more and apply here and then contact our volunteer coordinators.

Thank you so much for taking these important actions! Please spread the word by passing these alerts on through all your networks of friends and colleagues!

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* Wildlife Database Software Used by BFC Available to You!

For the past eleven years BFC volunteers have been recording sightings of buffalo and other sensitive, vulnerable, or significant wildlife as part of our daily field patrols. In that time BFC patrols have recorded close to 8,000 sightings of buffalo, 1,200 sightings of bald eagles, 500 sightings of moose, and hundreds of sightings of rare birds. BFC volunteers have logged over 640 days when bison have been present on Horse Butte peninsula in the last ten years. There can be no doubt that Horse Butte is buffalo habitat. All of this data is now available online for viewing here. The data has yet to undergo a comprehensive analysis and could make a excellent project for a biology or ecology student.

For the last five years BFC has been using specially developed database software for recording and analyzing wildlife sightings. That software, called Wildlife-Database is now available for anyone to use. If you would like to use the software for your own project it is available for free here.

Jesse
BFC Volunteer and Creator of Wildlife-Database Software

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* Start 2012 with a Wild Bison Calendar!

BFC's Wild Bison 2012 calendars make terrific gifts, so if you're still looking for that perfect something for someone, please consider a Wild Bison 2012 Calendar, the gift that celebrates wild buffalo every single day of the year!

Order Your Wild Bison 2012 Calendars Now!

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* BFC Wish List 2012

There are many ways for you to make a difference for wild buffalo. BFC's Wish List is one way to visualize the breadth of Buffalo Field Campaign's reach and capacity to work in defense of wild buffalo year-round. It's also a great way to match your interests with our day-to-day needs, prayers and wishes. Thank you so very much for all of the donations you have been sending us!

BFC Wish List 2012

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* By the Numbers

AMERICAN BUFFALO ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S. The last wild population is currently estimated at fewer than 3,700 individual buffalo. Wild bison are currently ecologically extinct throughout their native range in North America.

2011-2012 Total Buffalo Killed: 8

2011-2012 Government Capture:
2011-2012 Government Slaughter:
2011-2012 Held for Government Experiment:
2011-2012 Died In Government Trap:
2011-2012 Miscarriage in Government Trap:
2011-2012 State & Treaty Hunts: 8
2011-2012 Quarantine:
2011-2012 Shot by Agents:
2011-2012 Killed by Angry Residents:
2011-2012 Highway Mortality:

2010-2011 Total: 227
2009-2010 Total: 7
2008-2009 Total: 22
2007-2008 Total: 1,631

* Total Since 2000: 3,980*

*includes lethal government action, trap-related fatalities, quarantine/experiments, hunts, highway mortality

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* Last Words ~ Jeffrey St. Clair

"Since 1985, the federal government, working in concert with Montana cattle barons, has killed more than 6,800 bison that have migrated out of Yellowstone National Park. The slaughter is rationalized on the specious grounds of preventing the spread of brucellosis from bison to local cows. The Buffalo Field Campaign has exposed this dreadful bloodbath as a political hoax. Their volunteers courageously place themselves between the bison and their would-be killers. They spend all day, from sunrise until sunset, watching and documenting actions taken against the buffalo. They run patrols from cars, skis and snowshoes to protect buffalo outside the park. Their tactics range from video documentation to nonviolent civil disobedience."

~ Jeffrey St. Clair, from his recent article "Ten Small Green Groups that Make a Big Difference," appearing in CounterPunch. Read the full article here. Thank you so much Jeffrey!!

Do you have submissions for Last Words? Send them to bfc-media@wildrockies.org. Thank you for all the poems, songs, quotes and stories you have been sending! Keep them coming!
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Bernardo Gallegos

10:25am Dec 29

"As individuals and as a nation we have been spiritually crippled, because, after the massacre at Wounded Knee, our ancestors had never gone through the process, the ritual that is usually accorded to...people who...lose a loved one. And until...that takes place, they are in a period of mourning." -- Birgil Kills Straight (Lakota)

National Museum of the American Indian

On this day, 121 years ago, December 29, 1890, the Seventh Calvary massacred Miniconjou Lakota leade...

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First Nations vow to fight nuclear waste storage plans

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When it comes to nuclear waste, there is often a lot of "not in my backyard" sentiment.

First Nations communities in the Elliott Lake area say the gates to the backyard are firmly shut even though business leaders there are on board with being considered a long-term storage site for nuclear waste.

The North Shore Tribal Council said there's going to be opposition to the area becoming a nuclear waste storage site. The council represents seven First Nations across the North Shore of Lake Huron.

Tribal Council CEO Alan Ozawanimke said the chiefs have one message for the nuclear waste management group looking around Canada for potential sites: "Don't waste your financial resources if you plan to conduct a study in this area because they're going to oppose it.”

However, the Elliot Lake and North Shore Corporation for Business Development is hoping to be chosen by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization.

The NWMO is federally mandated to look after Canada's spent fuel when it comes to long term storage.

William Elliott, general manager for the Elliot Lake group, said becoming a storage site would mean millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. And this would be boon to the economically challenged area.

"If we have the geology, we have the expertise, we have the history, why wouldn't we do it?” he said. “And all the economic benefit is kind of the icing on the cake."

Other places in the region under consideration for possible (nuclear waste) storage sites include Wawa, Hornepayne and several places near Thunder Bay.

http://links.causes.com/s/clzL9i

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THE WILD WILD WEST

MNN. Dec. 29, 2011. Western society prefers artificial interaction with inanimate objects.

The globe is the resort of their rulers. We are all supposedly here for their use. 70% of the people in the Western Hemisphere are not needed by their industrial-war machine.

Central Control activates their resort. They write the scenario, then act it out and force others to act in it.

it's all unnatural. Their script boils down to killing, having sex with androids and outdrawing everybody in a gun fight. This production is here!

Animals are kept in cages and zoos. They can be eliminated, like the 65 million buffalo were by Secretary of interior General Sherman after the Civil War.

The rulers believe they control everything through money and technology, which is unravelling.

The masses are becoming unmanageable. The rulers need our minerals and resources to make weaponry to kill, maim, threaten and control the masses. The James Bay Ring of Fire in northern Ontario is being wrecked to dig up diamonds to reinforce tanks and weapons.

The rulers' weapons are operated by members of the masses. The rulers make their weapons and ammunition. It's a symbiotic relationship.

Both aren't sure where they're going, like ships with full sail and no rudder.

Some see a growing darkness of extinction. The control center is being hacked into. The ruling class occupiers will be gone from Great Turtle Island. The masses need to get their orders. From who and how? They panic. They are conditioned to be obedient, instructed and submit to hierarchy. As they don't know how to work together, share equally or listen to each other, they try to go after each other.

Batteries turn the power on temporarily. The greatest fear of secrecy is shining the light on the dark.

The Indigenous never died out. We come from the earth and will always be here. They can't belong and are uncomfortable with ongwehonwe/natural humans.

The rulers are escaping the environmental devastation they've caused here, taking their international travelling road show with them. The masses want something new to follow. Think matriarchy!

The doors are electrically powered. The hordes try to follow their rulers, but they're locked in. The bunkers need oxygen, workers and managers to tell them what to do.

The masses try to escape, trampling each other.

The occupation is over. The rulers try to plant computer chips in the masses to keep them here.

Is history repeating itself, reprogramming their people and killing those they don't want?

This abnormal scenario was not meant to last.

Einstein said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results". Being out of touch with the natural world, they have no answers and make the same mistakes. The results look fatal.

Food is getting scarce. They're trapped by the dysfunctional control center. The masses run crazy. Their hierarchical masters are gone.

The rulers' greatest fear is the masses will find out they are all the same. They're beginning to cast down their masters to where they came from. Some bosses try to continue the illusion. They need submissive masses, who will do the work, push their wheel chairs and clean their bunkers.

Rulers need a game plan.

"We shall deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they have left".

Countries are escaping their clutches, starting with Iceland, then Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Europe and now the rest of the world.

The rulers and their agents leave behind confused technicians, dazed agents and damaged masses. The air conditioners are off. They're melting in the heat. The elite and agents sit in the hovercraft floating above the ground. They shoot at and set fire to the land and then float away.

Yogi Berra said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future".

We're burning tobacco and singing: Just give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play; where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

, appreciate your taking the time to read MNN! Please forward this story to anyone that may be interested. The link is below. Nia:wen.

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Robin Littlefeather Hannon

6:43pm Dec 29

http://youtu.be/TlQJZ2cQ9xI

enrollment issues again...

www.youtube.com

Harlem Indian discusses his frustrations with the enrollment practices on our American Indian reserv...

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Aim Southern Cal

9:48am Jan 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XSY6tbpAQ&feature=share

RED CROW WESTERMAN - Speaking to the World - AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT

www.youtube.com

This is an excerpt from a 2005 interview of Red Crow hosted by Vernon Bellecourt. It was recorded at...

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First nations fiercely opposed to Northern Gateway

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The Gitga’at First Nation has been saying no to the Northern Gateway pipeline project since 2006.

The project will bring more than 200 huge tankers annually through the waters next to their tiny community of 160 in Hartley Bay at the entrance to Douglas Channel on B.C.’s northwest coast. Another 500 Gitga’at live elsewhere, including in Prince Rupert, also on the northwest coast.

The risks and effect of an oil spill are simply not worth any economic benefits, which the first nation views as nil, says Marvin Robinson, a spokesman for the community.

It’s a familiar refrain among B.C. first nations.

Despite the argument that opening up a new market for Alberta oilsands in Asia will benefit all Canadians — and an offer of a 10-per-cent ownership stake in the pipeline for first nations — almost all first nations’ voices in British Columbia have been raised in protest.

Unlike in Alberta, most aboriginal land claims in British Columbia have not been settled with treaties.

Court decisions, including at the Canadian Supreme Court level, have stipulated that first nations must be consulted and accommodated when their traditional lands are affected by industrial development.

Last month, more first nations signed their names to a declaration calling for an “unbroken wall of opposition” to pipelines and oil tankers along B.C.’s coast. More than 60 first nations along the pipeline route, Fraser River and coast have signed the declaration.

Among those are the Gitga’at, whose concerns on the Enbridge project increased following the sinking of BC Ferries’ Queen of the North in 2006.

Hartley Bay residents were first on the scene to rescue passengers.

The fallout from the sinking — the leaking of diesel fuel and oil onto surrounding beaches, including clam beds — woke them up to the potential harm of a larger oil spill, said Robinson, who runs guided tours of the remote coastal area.

“It’s almost like a test run. You get to see little mistakes and things that shouldn’t happen. We’re talking about a really light oil — diesel — [from the Queen of the North]. Imagine if it’s one of these [large oil tankers]. That’s the part that really scares us,” said Robinson.

Some of the tankers will be able to carry as much as two million barrels of oil. Called VLCCs — Very Large Crude Carriers — their length is longer than three football fields.

The Gitga’at are among nearly 20 first nations from B.C. that have signed up as interveners in regulatory hearings that begin Jan. 10 in Kitimat.

Enbridge has said it has aboriginal support and it expects a majority of the nearly 50 first nations with territory along the pipeline route to sign on to its ownership offer, but only one B.C. first nation has declared its support publicly.

And when Gitxsan hereditary chief Elmer Derrick announced the nation in northwest B.C. had signed an ownership deal that would provide $7 million over a 30-year period, it sparked an immediate battle with other leaders in the community who say they don’t support the project.

Unlike in B.C., most Alberta first nations have not said whether they support or reject the 1,172-kilometre pipeline.

More than a dozen Alberta first nations have signed up as interveners in the hearings overseen by the National Energy Board, but none have issued public declarations on the pipeline project.

Contacted before Christmas, Alexis Nation leaders said they were not ready to say anything about the project.

Other first nations in Alberta — including the Horse Lake First Nation — did not respond to requests for comment.

But at least one Alberta first nation is saying no to Northern Gateway pipeline.

Driftpile First Nation chief Rose Laboucan told The Vancouver Sun that following the recent completion of a traditional land-use study, the community of 2,000 has rejected the project. About 1,000 band members live on the Driftpile reserve, west of Edmonton.

“The permanent right of way will be about a 25-metre-wide scar running through the territory, harming the plants and animals, things we rely on,” said Laboucan.

She said it is ridiculous to believe there is not going to be an oil spill.

“I understand there has to be progress. I understand they want markets outside of Canada, to Asia. But at the same time, when do we balance our Mother Earth? In my opinion, it’s in pain now,” said Laboucan.

The band had reached a deal earlier with the Pembina Pipeline Corp. to build a safe house in the community over a different project, noted Laboucan.

But she said Enbridge’s take-it-or-leave-it approach of its ownership offer in Northern Gateway turned the community off.

First nations who oppose the Enbridge project stress they are not opposed to economic development.

But it depends on the development.

The Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, located in north-central B.C., has signed on to an ownership deal with the $1.2-billion Pacific Trails natural gas pipeline, but is opposed to the Enbridge oil pipeline.

The community of 470 — about 250 of whom live on the shores of Fraser Lake — supports the natural gas pipeline because if there was a rupture the gas would dissipate, says chief Larry Nooski.

There is no support for the Northern Gateway project because the oil from a pipeline leak could remain in the environment for a long time despite efforts to clean it up.

Nooski points to the more than 22-year-old Exxon Valdez tanker spill in Prince William Sound in Alaska, where research has shown that oil remains in the environment.

Nooski said that community meetings early on showed this as a concern.

“The impacts on the aquatic life and salmon was just too great for our people to even consider something of this nature,” said Nooski.

“If there is an interruption in our fishing, a lot of people would be without food. I know it sounds strange today because you have the Safeways and what have you. Personally, I still rely on my catch. I still rely on the fish that is caught in the summer and fall,” he said.

He said the first nation is already involved in the forest sector through its logging business.

Nadleh Whut’en also recently became involved in Thompson Creek Metals’ nearby Endako molybdenum mine and operates a 350-person camp for the $375-million Endako mine expansion and modernization project.

ghoekstra@vancouversun.com
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Aim Southern Cal

7:34pm Jan 4

Please share

This morning the Today Show did a segment on 'The Quest for Quiet'. They were promoting high end resorts, one of which sells ceremony. Evidently NBC learned nothing from the James Ray fiasco seeing that they specifically mentions sweats.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/45869314#45869314
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Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field
and in the policy arena to protect America's last wild buffalo.

Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
January 5, 2012

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* NEW TAKE ACTION! Support No Cattle Grazing on Part of Gallatin National Forest
* Update from the Field
* More Important Actions to Take for Wild Buffalo
* New! Endangered Buffalo Fact of the Week
* Start 2012 with a Wild Bison Calendar!
* BFC Wish List
* By the Numbers
* Last Words

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* NEW TAKE ACTION! Support 'No Cattle Grazing' on Part of Gallatin National Forest!
No more cattle grazing in wild buffalo habitat! It's time to remove cattle from Gallatin National Forest to make room for these handsome and ecologically critical native bovines. Photo courtesey of Sandy Sisti. Click photo for larger image.

The Gallatin National Forest Hebgen Lake Ranger District is proposing to renew a 10 year permit to graze cattle within the wild American buffalo's habitat on the South Fork and Watkins Creek in Hebgen Basin, west of Yellowstone National Park. The South Fork of the Madison River is prime buffalo habitat and buffalo migrate through the Gallatin National Forest not far from Watkins Creek. Buffalo migrating west of the South Fork have been shot by private landowners and Montana livestock officials as the habitat is currently designated Zone 3 ("zero tolerance") by the Interagency Bison Management Plan agencies including the Gallatin National Forest.

Please tell Gallatin National Forest that you support the "No Grazing Alternative" to help protect habitat for wild buffalo! Comments are due by January 20, 2012. TAKE ACTION NOW!

REMINDER: There's just over a week left to comment on Montana's Gardiner Basin proposal and more actions you can take for the buffalo are also below. Thank you so much for being a voice for America's last wild buffalo!

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* Update from the Field

Wild buffalo migrate through deep snow in single file, helping each other break trail. When the lead buffalo grows tired, she or he will step aside to pull up the rear and rest a little, with the next buffalo taking the lead. Photo by Ric Kessler. Click photo for larger image.

Eight more buffalo have been killed by hunters, bringing this year's kill up to sixteen. The only two buffalo that were in Montana north of Yellowstone - two bulls - were killed by hunters before the New Year, and the rest were killed on Gallatin National Forest lands west of Yellowstone. In one of these incidents, a group of buffalo had been in an area that is closed to hunting and all human activity to protect nesting bald eagles on Horse Butte. Unfortunately, it appears that a snowmobiler illegally violated the closure and pushed the buffalo out of their safe zone, allowing hunters to shoot one. This group of buffalo had already had a few family members killed earlier in the hunt, and they had gotten themselves to Montana's largest buffalo safe zone, on the private lands of the Galanis Family. Since their family has been shot at again, this family group - under the cover of night - walked all the way from Horse Butte to Yellowstone National Park, where they remain safe from hunters, but unfortunately unable to safely access critical winter range.

With the Interagency Bison Management Plan agencies aiming to keep America's last wild buffalo population at a ridiculous 3,000 cap, they are developing a recipe for disaster. Not only is it unthinkable to try to limit the buffalo to such life-threatening low numbers, but by also allowing for a state hunt, with the addition of four First Nations also hunting under treaty rights, there will never be enough buffalo to appease the appetites of hunters and maintain a viable population. It is as if the government is aware of this, and because they don't want wild buffalo in Montana, they are setting it up so that hunters will one day be fighting each other over the few buffalo that are available.

As BFC has always said, no habitat, no hunt! This is an ecologically extinct population, and America's last. Hunting these buffalo when their population is in such dire straights - and also subjected to the hazing, capture, slaughter, quarantine, research and other nefarious government "management" tactics - is clearly setting the stage for calamity. Wild buffalo need access to their habitat - wherever they choose to roam - all the time, through all seasons. They must be allowed to restore themselves in Montana and elsewhere, and become a viable population, or we risk their eminent extinction.

A beautiful, frosty-faced buffalo cow shows deep, gentle and timeless wisdom in her eyes. Photo by Mike Burdic. Click photo for larger image.

The buffalo seem to be cluing in to the human chess board that has been set up for them. Their wisdom in leaving hunting areas before they all get shot - which is exactly what would happen if hunters are given the chance - is a huge spark of hope. And maybe, just maybe, as buffalo get more savvy to these lengthy hunting seasons, they will become more and more unavailable to the hunters that come to kill them, and then hunters will finally begin to see that they will have to do their part in demanding that hunting wild buffalo is harmfully premature and these sacred beings must be allowed to restore themselves throughout their native range.

BFC is steadfast in our commitment and dedication to fight for the buffalo on their chosen ground, in the policy arena, in the legislative ring, and on the legal front to gain them access to their native habitat and the lasting protection that they must have in order to survive as a self-willed buffalo nation. You are the biggest part of this commitment - you and the buffalo - together, we will make it happen, with endless pressure, endlessly applied.

ROAM FREE!

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* More Important Actions to Take for Wild Buffalo

1. Montana Seeks Public Comments on Wild Buffalo - Comments due by January 13, 2012

2. Stop Federal Livestock Overseer from Harming Wild Buffalo!

3. Urge Congress to Pass Public Lands Grazing Bill!

4. Help keep BFC strong and effective in the field and at every level of the policy arena. Donations are tax-deductible and go directly to BFC's critical program work.

5. Volunteer with BFC! Field volunteers are needed now through June. BFC provides room, board, gear and training. Please consider joining us on the front lines, working in defense of America's last wild buffalo! Learn more and apply here and then contact our volunteer coordinators.

Thank you so much for taking these important actions! Please spread the word by passing these alerts on through all your networks of friends and colleagues!

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* NEW! Endangered Buffalo Fact of the Week

FACT: "Today, the plains bison is for all practical purposes ecologically extinct within its original range." C.H. Freese, Second Chance for the Plains Bison

Published paper can be downloaded and reviewed from here.

Have a fact you'd like to share with us? Email it to us.

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* Start 2012 with a Wild Bison Calendar!

BFC's Wild Bison 2012 calendars make terrific gifts, so if you're still looking for that perfect something for someone, please consider a Wild Bison 2012 Calendar, the gift that celebrates wild buffalo every single day of the year!

Order Your Wild Bison 2012 Calendars Now!

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* BFC Wish List 2012

There are many ways for you to make a difference for wild buffalo. BFC's Wish List is one way to visualize the breadth of Buffalo Field Campaign's reach and capacity to work in defense of wild buffalo year-round. It's also a great way to match your interests with our day-to-day needs, prayers and wishes.

BFC Wish List 2012

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* By the Numbers

AMERICAN BUFFALO ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S. The last wild population is currently estimated at fewer than 3,700 individual buffalo. Wild bison are currently ecologically extinct throughout their native range in North America.

2011-2012 Total Buffalo Killed: 16

2011-2012 Government Capture:
2011-2012 Government Slaughter:
2011-2012 Held for Government Experiment:
2011-2012 Died In Government Trap:
2011-2012 Miscarriage in Government Trap:
2011-2012 State & Treaty Hunts: 16
2011-2012 Quarantine:
2011-2012 Shot by Agents:
2011-2012 Killed by Angry Residents:
2011-2012 Highway Mortality:

2010-2011 Total: 227
2009-2010 Total: 7
2008-2009 Total: 22
2007-2008 Total: 1,631

* Total Since 2000: 3,988*

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Northern Ontario first nation wins injunction to stop exploration by Solid Gold

- A northern Ontario First Nation has won an injunction to prevent junior miner Solid Gold Resources from drilling on their land.

In a decision this week Ontario Superior Court of Justice Carol Brown sided with the First Nations community, saying Solid Gold (TSXV:SLD) failed to engage in consultation.

She prohibited Solid Gold from any further exploration in the area for 120 days, during which time the company and the provincial government must undergo a proper consultation process with Wahgoshig.

If the meetings are not productive, the community can go back to court to seek an extension of the injunction.

Wahgoshig Chief David Babin says he hopes the ruling sends a message to all companies that courts will not let First Nation rights "be trampled on by unilateral actions and failures of industry and government."

Solid Gold had argued that granting the injunction would jeopardize its financial well-being and essentially shut down its operations.

http://links.causes.com/s/clz3Mn

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Aim Southern Cal

7:20pm Jan 5

_______________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release Contacts: December 30, 2011 Jeneda Benally,(928) 380-8014jeneda@blackfire.net

Forest Service risks Safety of Children’s health by allowing sewage effluent snow on San Francisco Peaks !
Human health impacts of wastewater snowmaking to be heard at 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, CA
_______________________________________________________________________ What: COURT DATE, CARAVAN, PRESS CONFERENCE, RALLY When: Saturday, January 7th, 2012 Caravan launches from Flagstaff. Monday, January 9, 2012 – Court Hearing (see schedule of events below) Where: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 95 Seventh Street, San Francisco, CA Who: The Save The Peaks Coalition
Why: The San Francisco Peaks, a holy mountain near Flagstaff AZ, are in danger of being used as a toxic recreation area exposing citizens to hazardous contaminants! Citizens are fighting the United States Forest Service in a legal battle to protect children from hazardous endocrine disruptors and to protect this sacred site from desecration. On January 9th, 2012 The Save the Peaks Coalition et al vs. the United States Forest Service will be heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, CA. The case argues that under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, the Forest Service failed to adequately consider the impacts associated with ingestion of snow made from reclaimed sewer water in its Environmental Impact Statement. The Forest Service approved reclaimed sewer water for the use of snowmaking at a local Northern Arizona ski resort in 2004. The reclaimed sewer water in question is from Flagstaff's Rio de Flag Sewage Plant. Since May, the owners of Arizona Snowbowl, with the support of the U.S. Forest Service and the Flagstaff City Council, have already laid 7 miles of a 14.8 mile wastewater pipeline and have clear-cut over 50 acres of rare alpine forest. According to Howard Shanker, attorney for the Save the Peaks Coalition and the other plaintiffs, “The Forest Service failed to adequately consider the impacts of potential human ingestion of snow made from reclaimed sewer water as required by applicable law. Our government should not be approving such projects without some sort of understanding of the anticipated impacts. By approving treated sewage effluent for snow making without adequate analysis, the government essentially turns the ski area into a test facility with our children as the laboratory rats. That is unconscionable.” Mr. Shanker, a former congressional candidate in Arizona Congressional District 1, represented a number of tribes and environmental organizations in prior litigation over Snowbowl’s proposed expansion and threatened use of treated sewage effluent. "It is deplorable that the United States Forest Service would allow known endocrine disruptors to come in to contact with our most vulnerable citizens, our children", states Berta Benally, a plaintiff in the case. "At one point DDT, BPA and asbestos were all considered safe. Years later, after many people have suffered, we now sadly know that they are hazardous!" The Save the Peaks Coalition is planning a caravan to the San Francisco Court of Appeals on January 9th.

Anyone interested in participating can call 928-380-8014 or email savethepeakscaravan@yahoo.com.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS January 9th 7:00 AM, Sunrise Gathering/Ceremony *Photo Opportunity* To Be Determined, San Francisco 8:00 AM, March to Courthouse *Photo Opportunity* 95 Seventh Street, San Francisco 9:00 AM, Prayer Vigil at Courthouse *Photo Opportunity*
95 Seventh Street, San Francisco

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Osiyo
We hope that you and your family had a wonderful holiday. If your New Year’s resolutions is to quit smoking or to learn the Cherokee Language then we have just the thing!

Cherokee Nation is offering a free 6-week smoking cessation class, open to the public, and meets on Mondays starting Jan. 9 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Tahlequah. For more info:

http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32878/Press_Article.aspx

Online Cherokee Language classes will begin next week (Monday Jan. 9) so it is not too late to register for class and have that LIVE experience with our language instructor Ed Fields. Soon you will be asking “hilaiyv adelenisgo gilagogeyi?” so you can step up your language learning. If you are unsure of what I just said, register for class at:

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Cherokee Nation Volunteer Program offers Tax Prep Service:1/3/2012 8:26:36 AM
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Cherokee Nation volunteers will once again be donating their time and expertise to file federal and state income tax returns for those earning less than $50,000 annually. The service is provided free to those who live within the Cherokee Nation’s 14-county jurisdiction.
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Cherokee Nation offers Classes for New Business Owners:1/4/2012 10:33:03 AM
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The Cherokee Nation is hosting a series of business entrepreneurship classes in January that teach new business owners how to write a successful business plan. Classes are held in Tahlequah on Jan. 12, 17, 24 and 31 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Osiyo Training room, behind the Restaurant of the Cherokees, 17675 S. Muskogee Ave.
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Rosamary Rubio

7:26pm Jan 6

Blessings...!!!

Apache - 01 Five Spirits

http://www.facebook.com/n/?l%2FCAQHp_tN1AQGvZEOVuZ7dp1H7zlAu70Dq1qygciKHWZsdqg%2Fyoutu.be%2F_Av2r162wYA&mid=5718&n_m=savethesacredsites%40gmail.com

www.youtube.com

A while ago, on my crystalettes account, I uploaded a Native American song and you guys wanted more....

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She's alive, beautiful, finite ,,,,,, and hurting - watch till the end

you owe it to yourself to watch this one.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nGeXdv-uPaw

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Aim Southern Cal

8:09am Jan 7

Farewell Reception planned for our Pacific Islander Relatives that made the historic trek from thier lands to our lands on the west coast- Mark your calendars to join the celebration January 21st! Mark your calendars! in San Diego! more information to be announced fore more info on this historical voyage look to this link www.pacificvoyagers.org

Pacific Voyagers

www.pacificvoyagers.org

Faafaite sailed with the film crew towards the island of Hawai'i, they reached the community of Kawa...

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Billie Fidlin

12:32am Jan 9

"Eagle Creek Entertainment is a company founded & operated by Native American women." Read more about them at the Whisper n Thunder link Eagle Creek E. Interview below.

Eagle Creek E. Interview

whispernthunder.org

Check out http://whispernthunder.org/!

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From the Eagle Watch #201

Imperial Minions,Transparent Rednecks and Dirty Drawers
January 11, 2012

Imagine someone coming into your home to inspect for cleanliness andwrite a report for his boss. He makes notes on the number of chairsyou have, what you do with your garbage, if anyone is sick and many otherthings. This is the kind of information in the Indian agents'reports to Ottawa about the various Indigenous people they wereresponsible for as "wards of the Crown".

One agent actually stated, "They are improving in sanitation, themajority now keeping their houses and surroundings clean, also havingregular weekly washings of underclothing." Note#1

The mentality reflected in such arrogance can be found throughout therecord and has not changed one iota. It is carried on today in theunmistakable tone of articles, reports and speeches such as thosediscussed in this report.

The Canadian Gov recently introduced a bill to legislate, First NationsFinancial Transparency Act. NOTE#2 They were under pressure fromelements who think that band council chiefs make too much money. They say they want to eliminate corruption in Native communities. Sounds more like they want to eliminate native communities and Nativepeople period. If they want to look for corruption, they could lookat their own colonial governments who have a long history of corruption,theft, fraud and criminal behaviour.

Another bill by former chief of Kamloops First Nation Manny Jules, is theFirst Nations Property Ownership Act intended to "transform"the way Indigenous own community land. Ultimately, it will take theland away and eliminate the rez, ie the community which is the basis ofIndigenous strength, identity and healing.

Speaking of big salaries, Manny, appointed by Prime Minister Stephen"Pinnocchio" Harper as head Commish of the First Nations TaxCommission FNTC to advise the Minister of AAND, makes about $200,000annually for nine years. NOTE#3

The groups and people behind this legislative campaign include federal MPKelly Block, Canadian Taxpayers Federation CTF based in Saskatchewan withoffices from BC to Ontario and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy FCPPas well as the strident imperial voices of well paid academics likeFlanagan, Widdowson and Bland. These people all act on theassumption that their way is always the better way for everybodyelse. They will "help" anyone.... as long as they are theboss...They are unscrupulous at twisting ideas and concepts.

Taxpayers Soapbox
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation CTF issued a highly controversialreport on Native band chief salaries being more than the PrimeMinister's. NOTE#4

The CTF is a nonprofit advocacy group that lobbies mainly on taxissues. They have a board of directors, researchers andspokespersons. They claim they have over 70,000 supporters whodonate money to finance their efforts.

The CTF web site boasts, "CTF offices field hundreds of mediainterviews each month, hold press conferences and issue regular newsreleases, commentaries and publications to advocate the common interestof taxpayers. CTF representatives speak at functions, make presentationsto government, meet with politicians, and organize petition drives,events and campaigns to mobilize citizens to effect public policychange."

That's a lot of propaganda and psychological warfare.

The CTF board includes director, Erin Chutter, Note#5 an aggressive andruthless young business woman who knows what she wants: to be theworld's biggest digger upper of cobalt and rare earth metals for themilitary and telecommunications industries. She's looking for biginvestors in her projects and schemes.

Ms "Chatterbox" Chutter is the head of Vancouver-based PugetVentures Inc./Global Cobalt Corporation with projects planned in Ontarionorth of Kenora and in Altai, Russia.

Puget Ventures say their Werner Lake claim is "Canada's next primarycobalt producer". The 1,700 hectares in Northwestern Ontario is inAnishnaabek territory (Treaty 3). It includes "three extremelyrare primary cobalt deposits and two significant nickel-copper-PGEdeposits...about 90 km north of Kenora, Ontario and 90 km east Northeastof the town of Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba."

Erin Chatter is also a founder and director of Sceptre Ventures andQuantum Rare Earth Development Inc. which is developing some rare earthelements near Uranium City, Saskatchewan and Niobium in Nebraska. They're looking for investors on the German stock exchange.

Remember Frontenac Ventures?? Watch out for phoney Native protestsas a way to raise funding for the many competing and scrambling venturecapitalists.

Another director at CTF is Andy Crooks who owns a company, RichCrooksEnterprises Ltd. Doesn't that say it all??

The MP Pawn in the Game
Kelly Block is a Saskatchewan MP in Harper's Conservativegovernment. She's a loyal minion and token affirmative action forthe colonial elitists. NOTE#6

Here's what Kelly Block said,
"This legislation helps pave the way to greater private sectorinvestment and economic prosperity for First Nations. I have heardfrom aboriginal community members, who have said this information isimportant and necessary for their communities and I am proud that ourgovernment is taking action to deliver results for FirstNations."

Stooges, Parrots and Other Unmentionables
Then token Indian, Chief of Whitecap Dakotas, Darcy "YogiBerra" Bear parrots her comments, "This bill will mean moreaccountability of First Nation leaders to our people. Transparentand accountable First Nation governments support a strong environment forinvestment leading to greater economic development."

That is what it is really about, "a strong environment forinvestment". But for whom? This is the fullthrottle Cons policy to welcome the global resource grabbers here. The aspiring minions invest their savings in developing resources whilethe corporate giants profit without apparent risk, growing fatter all thetime.

Don Sandberg, Cree from Norway House, is employed by the FCPP in theirAboriginal Frontiers Project. A few years ago, he was asked hisviews on Bill C-7, the Governance Act proposed by former Indian AffairsMinister Robert Nault.

Don said, "We had, for the first time that aboriginal people canrecall, a minister of the government saying to the ordinary people on thereserve, 'I know what your problems are through your many letters askingfor assistance and I want to assist by making band councils accountablenot only to you but the taxpaying public.'"

Dom maintains, "The government has to start policing theirfunding commitments to the native people and respecting the taxpayersthat fund aboriginal organizations." NOTE#7

"The taxpayers that fund aboriginalorganizations"!!??

Hold on now, that's backwards and very provocative. TheCanadian taxpayer who lives and works here and pays taxes is abeneficiary of Indigenous resources. The resources include water,trees, minerals, soil, etc. For example, the Cree share resourceslike petroleum with nonNative visitors. If all factors werecalculated in, the visitors have a big debt to pay.

Up to now, Indigenous have benefitted very little from the vast wealthtaken out of our territories in many and diverse forms. Thecolonial debt to us continues to mount into astronomicalnumbers.

Thought Control and Mass Thinking or Lack of
Making Mental Knots NOTE#8

"Go-To Think Tanks" NOTE#9
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Foreign PolicyResearch Institute FPRI at the International Relations Program,University of Pennsylvania is a think tank that studies thinktanks. Every year they publish lists of the top think tanks in theworld.

Most think tanks were new in the 1980's and 90's. Today, there areover 6,000 think tanks worlwide. Most of them are "right"leaning in their politics though they may pretend otherwise. Whilethe US boasts 1816 thinking organizations, Canada has just 97. TheUK has 278, France, 176, China 425, Israel 54 and the Vatican has 1 thinktank.

Think tanks are the people who influence government policy far more thanany person who casts a vote in any election.

The top US think til you stink tanks for 2010 are Brookings Institute,Council on Foreign Relations (the US counterpart to the RIIA) and theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The #1 nonUS think tank isChathamHouse (AKA The RoyalInstitute of International Affairs RIIA), UK, founded with Cecil Rhodes'imperial ideology and financing from Sir Abe Bailey and the Astorfamily. The epitome of the British colonial elite, Rhodes made hisfortune when he "was able to monopolize the diamond mines ofSouth Africa asDe BeersConsolidated Mines".Note#10

#2 on the list of 50 is Amnesty International, UK which does a good jobof pacifying outrage among the populace.

The FraserInstitute is Canada's top thinktank at #17. The Centre for International Governance Innovation(CIGI)Canada is #32 and at #48 is the International Institute forSustainable Development, (Canada)IISD, one of many creations of NWOpromoter,MauriceStrong. NOTE#11

Strong is or has been influential in think tanks all over the world,including Trustee at the Aspen Institute USA and Chair of the WorldResources Institute at Harvard University. He was a Member of theSociety for Development, Justice and Peace at the Vatican. He is apast Chairman of the advisory board of the United NationsUniversity. The UNU is the publisher of the GLOBAL "GO-TOTHINK TANKS" 2010.

The Club of Rome is #17 on the Top 25 International Development ThinkTanks 2010. Mau is a Member of the Executive committee. Wedidn't set out to write about him yet again, he just keeps popping upeverywhere like a stalker.

A Trying to Think Tank - the Frontier Centre for Public PolicyFCPP
Hawks and ConArtists in Sheep's Clothing

The anti Indigenous FCPP was started in Winnipeg in 1997 by PeterHolle. It now has offices in Calgary and Regina, maintaining a"Western" focus. The FCPP propagandists write a lot ofarticles for mainstream media, post their favourites on their web sitesand vigourously lobby government. See endnotes for more on thepeople at FCPP. NOTE#12

FCPP managed to get onto the prestigious "Go-To Think Tanks"list in 2008. They were ranked at #22 after Preston Manning'sCanada West Foundation at #21. NOTE#13, NOTE#14

Pinnocchio, PM of Canada, gushes, "Over the last decade, theFrontier Centre has grown into a sturdy Manitoba Maple, with solidbranches reaching into every major area of public policy research andadvocacy and did it without taking a nickel in government money.Frontier's ongoing contribution to serious, informed public policy debatein Canada has been outstanding."

The FCPP boasts, their "Radio and TV personnel and advisorsappear regularly on TV current affairs programs and radio talkshows" like Ottawa's CFRA580. NOTE#15 Their obnoxiouscomments are calculated to incite, insult and provoke while pushing theenvelope of what can be said. Being government approved, theyreflect and influence public policy.

This excerpt from a December, 2011 Globe and Mail article, sums up theirargument. The prolific and vociferous Tom Flanagan has a neat formulathat sure looks like a capitalist recipe, capitalism being the economicsystem of colonialism and imperialism. NOTE#16

"...Parliament is considering bills to make public the salariesof chiefs and councillors and, on an opt-in basis, to extend electedterms of office of reserve governments from two to four years. Thesesteps in the direction of greater transparency and stability shouldenhance the rule of law for first nations. But much remains to be done,particularly to strengthen the property rights of first nations people,to give them real ownership, so they will have the same opportunities asother Canadians to make better lives for themselves." NOTE#17

The articles compiled at the fcpp web site suggest a massive mediacampaign aimed low at everybody's gut level. It's a flawed campaignthat does not stand up to reason or hard data. It leaves outcompletely the Indigenous way.

More on the Academics
Thought Leaders Behind the Rhetoric

Tom Flanagan was a behind the scenes manipulator for Preston Manningof the Reform Party which morphed into the now Conservative Party led byHarper. Flanagan managed Harper's campaign career which broughtStephen Pinocchio to power. Tom is still an Advisor to the PrimeMinister of Canada.

"Our parliamentary government creates a concentrated powerstructure out of step with other aspects of society." - Harperand Flanagan

It appears they prefer a totalitarian system totally run bythem.

A 2004 article by Marci McDonald in Walrus Magazine NOTE#18 gives adetailed rundown on Flanagan's career and the influences in hislife. This includes how Flanagan in turn influences the federalgovernment "led" by Stephen Pinocchio Harper.

Flanagan, now pushing 70, grew up in Ottawa, Illinois and had a solidRoman Catholic education. He no doubt carries dualcitizenship.

The Calgary School of Redneckology
Flanagan is the longtime head of a clique of "like-minded ideologues from the University of Calgary'spolitical-science department... collectively dubbed the 'CalgarySchool'. Flanagan won his conservative spurs targeting theprevailing wisdom on the country's native people...

"... in Calgary, one of his former students, Ezra Levant... seesFlanagan and Harper more as "symbiotic partners...I call him DonTomaso. He is the master strategist, the godfather - even ofHarper." "

Radha Jhappan, associate professor in poly sci at CarletonUniversity, refers to the Calgary counterpart as the "departmentof redneckology." NOTE# 19, 20

Another major influence at the Calgary School is Leo Strauss.

"...Leo Strauss, the philosophical father of the neo-conservativemovement... argued that a ruling elite often had to resort to deception -a noble lie - to protect citizens from themselves. To that end, herecommended harnessing the simplistic platitudes of populism to galvanizemass support for measures that would in fact restrict rights...there's nomystery in the appeal of Strauss's theories to Flanagan or Cooper, whoedited Strauss's thirty-year correspondence with Voegelin, Faith andPolitical Philosophy." NOTE#18

Flanagan on Louis Riel
Flanagan warned, "...Rehabilitating Riel's reputation couldcost Canadian taxpayers billions in Metis land claims."

According to McDonald, "Between 1972 and 1994, he received nearly$620,000 in research grants on the subject from the Canada Council andthe Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council...[including]$500,000 for a five-year project with four other academics, co-editingthe collected writings of Louis Riel.

"...in 1986. The Justice Department offered him a $103,000 contractas its chief historical consultant on ... a suit by the Manitoba MétisFederation for 1.4 million acres promised to Riel and his followers in1870..."

Flanagan is an expert witness for the Government in numerous casesagainst Native land claims.

He wrote a provocative book in 2000, "First Nations? SecondThoughts". NOTE#21 It was denounced by Native leaders andorganizations. Joyce Green, associate professor at the Universityof Regina and Metis herself tells McDonald, "These aren't secondthoughts. They're the same old first thoughts that the colonizerscame with from Europe. It's a celebration of the original arguments thatsupported the subordination of indigenous peoples." NOTE#22

Flanagan contended that "European Civilization was severalthousand years more advanced than the aboriginal cultures of NorthAmerica, both in technology and social organization...Owing to thistremendous gap in civilization, the European colonization of NorthAmerica was inevitable and, if we accept the philosophical analysis ofJohn Locke and Emer de Vattel, justifiable."

""There's a fundamental racism that underpins his view,"says Radha Jhappan. "It's an amazingly selective reading ofhistory...""

In the Ottawa/Hull War Rooms and backroom company of the colonial agents,the racist language continues seamlessly from the earliest IndianReports. That it is now coming out in public more and more is asignal for great concern. Many people are so inured, embitteredor/and oblivious that they are not paying attention.

Tom Gets Ted to Wash His Dirty Drawers
Flanagan is "active in the Society for Academic Freedom andScholarship, an aggressive lobby of professors fighting politicalcorrectness, on whose board he now sits."

Ted Byfield, Alberta "elder of ConRants" NOTE#23 writes"in terms Leo Strauss might have approved. 'All these positionswhich Harper cherishes are there because of a group of people in Calgary- Flanagan most prominent among them. I don't think he knows how tocompromise. It's not in his genes. The issue now is: how do we foolthe world into thinking we're moving to the left when we'renot?'"

The Royal Society of Canada Note#24
In 1996, when Flanagan was bashing Louis Riel, longtime friend andcolleague, Barry "Cooper thumbed his nose at his pal's critics bynominating him to the Royal Society of Canada. "I don't think Idisagree with Tom on anything," Cooper says. "Political orintellectual.""

According to their web site, the Royal Society of Canada RSC"exists to recognize academic excellence, to advise governments andorganizations, and to promote Canadian culture... the responsibility of anational academy is to provide expert advice on matters of nationalinterest or urgency and to promote its national culture abroad... onmultilateral agencies (G8, UNESCO, IAP)..."

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) got its Royal Charter NOTE#25 fromQueen Vikki in 1883.

Maurice Strong was a member for decades while Tom Flanagan has been afellow since 1996. At first glance Tom and Mau would appear torepresent opposing interests. This is the illusion of thetwo-headed monster. If you only see the heads, you may not realizethey are attached to the same body.

Tom is in the British imperialist, expansionist, anything but"conservative" faction seeking global empire. Mau is inthe environmentalist/capitalist NWO UN global governance faction. Their end goals are identical - to serve the interests of the globalelitists and destroy Nature and Indigenous by whatever meansnecessary. NOTE#26

CONCLUSION
A person who sits out on a hill comtemplating the universe is morelikely to "get it" than many who have a big education, read andexpound, their heads always buried in mindless comatose realms.

Kittoh

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Notes, Sources and Contact Info
Note #1
1914 DOMINION OF CANADA ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRSFOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31 1914
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/indianaffairs/001074-119.01-e.php?page_id_nbr=26677&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&PHPSESSID=b6reoo175sap4m0r5skd4f2ua6

NOTE#2
http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1322056355024
First Nations Financial Transparency Act On November 23, 2011, theproposed First Nations Financial Transparency Act was introduced inParliament.

See:
http://nonstatusindian.blogspot.com/2010/10/bill-c-575-first-nations-financial.html

NOTE#3 Manny Jules
First Nations Tax Commission
321-345 Yellowhead Highway
Kamloops, BC V2H 1H1
Phone (250) 828-9857 or 1-855-815-9857
Fax (250) 828-9858
ncalver@fntc.ca

National Capital Region Office
160 George St., Suite 200
Ottawa, ON K1N 9M2
Phone (613) 789-5000
Fax (613) 789-5008
mail@fntc.ca

http://173.236.209.42/en/about-us/commissioners
First Nations Tax Commission
Commissioners...

http://charlenedesrochers.blogspot.com/2011/01/stephen-harper-and-manny-jules-sonny.html
Manny Jules' salary is listed as GCQ - 7 on the followingwebsite:
http://appointments.gc.ca/prflOrg.asp?OrgID=FNN&type-typ=1&lang=eng.

NOTE#4
Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Office location:
265-438 Victoria Ave E
Regina, SK S4N 0N7
Ph: 1-800-667-7933
Fax: 1-800-465-4464
E-mail: admin@taxpayer.com
www.taxpayer.com
a citizen's advocacy group dedicated to lower taxes, less waste andaccountable government
Their web site has loads of links to articles, issues and petitions,mostly about taxes...
This is the doozy that took a shot at band council chiefs:
http://taxpayer.com/issues/federal/disclose-reserve-politicians-pay
Disclose Reserve Politicians' Pay

NOTE #5
On CTF board, director Erin Chutter, President & CEO, Director PugetVentures/Global Cobalt
http://www.pugetventures.com/company.php?bp=517

http://www.pugetventures.com/properties.php?bp=693
Canada's Next Primary Cobalt Producer

Hits on Quantum Rare Earth Development Inc. all coming up inGerman. Google is playing games!!! We can see it is based inVancouver:
Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp.
Peter Dickie
President
Suite 1128 - 789 West Pender St.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada, V6C 1H2
Tel.: +1 604 669 9335

AXINO AG
investor & media relations
Königstraße 26
70173 Stuttgart
Germany
Tel. +49 (711) 25 35 92-30
Fax +49 (711) 25 35 92-33
http://www.axino.de/

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?ticker=QRE:CN
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=28011204&ticker=QRE:CN
By using a different search engine, we found some more stuff onQuantum at Bloombergs business which led to their web site finally.
http://www.quantumrareearth.com/
Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp., an exploration stage company,engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral resourceproperties. The company explores for rare earth elements. It holdsinterest in the Elk Creek Carbonatite located in southeastern Nebraska;the Archie Lake rare earth element property consisting of 1 mineral claimcovering an area of 2,108 hectares in Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada;and the Jungle Well rare earth project located west of Leonora,Australia. The company was formerly known as Butler Resource Corp. andchanged its name to Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp. in March 2010.Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp. is based in Vancouver,Canada.

Mr. Peter Dickie has been Vice President of Corporate Affairs at WestHawk Development Corp. since April 12, 2006. Mr. Dickie has been theChief Executive Officer and President at Quantum Rare Earth DevelopmentsCorp. (also known as Butler Resource Corp.) since August 19, 2009. Mr.Dickie has been Vice President for Corporate Affairs of Lateegra GoldCorp. since July 12, 2006. Mr. Dickie served as the President ofUniversal Potash Corp. (formerly McNab Creek Gold Corp.) ... from March8, 2007 to August 4, 2009 and its Chief Executive Officer until August 4,2009. Mr. Dickie is a businessman with over 20 years of experience withboth public and private companies holding numerous senior managementpositions. He has successfully operated his own consulting business forthe past seven years. He has a broad range of management level experienceand has a variety of senior management experience with private and publiccompanies. He has been a Director of Soldi Ventures Inc. since February10, 2010; Butler Resource Corp. since March, 2009 and Lateegra Gold Corp.since November 21, 2008. He served as Independent Director of SolitaireMinerals Corp. from August 13, 2009 to December 19, 2011. He served as anAdditional Director of Universal Potash Corp., from March 8, 2007 toAugust 4, 2009. Mr. Dickie is a graduate of both the University ofVictoria and the University of British Columbia.

THIS IS THE SAME BUILDING WHERE PUGET VENTURES HAS ITS OFFICES:
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS*
1050 West Pender Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3S7

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=84240690&ticker=SVP/P:CN&previousCapId=3103441&previousTitle=QUANTUM%20RARE%20EARTH%20DEVELOPME
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/idUS268956+20-Oct-2011+MW20111020

NOTE#6
There's a photo at this link with Kelly "Transparent Redneck"Block grinning the shit-eating grin, John "Deadpan or Alive?"Duncan and Darcy "Yogi Berra" Bear.
http://www.kellyblockmp.ca/?p=1137
"First Nations Financial Transparency Act.Whitecap Dakota FirstNation, Saskatchewan (November 23, 2011) - ...This legislation, announcedby the Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs andNorthern Development and Kelly Block, Member of Parliament forSaskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, is part of the Government's commitment in the2011 Speech from the Throne to support democratic, transparent andaccountable First Nation governments by requiring that chiefs andcouncillors publish their salaries and expenses."

http://www.kellyblockmp.ca/
Contact Information
Saskatoon:
904E 22nd St. West
Saskatoon, SK
S7M 0S1
Ph: (306) 975-6555
Fx: (306) 975-5786
email address: saskatoon@kellyblock.ca

http://www.saskatoonhomepage.ca/index.php?option=com_content&id=36600&task=view
First NationsAccountability
Written by Paul Burke
Wednesday, 23 November 2011 11:10

First Nations' financial statements, as well the expenses andcompensations of their elected officials, will have to be made publicthanks to a new bill introduced in Parliament.

The First Nations Financial Transparency Act was announced Wednesday fromthe Whitecap Dakota First Nation.

NOTE#7
http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/698
Don Sandberg is the Frontier Centreâ€™s research fellow on aboriginalpolicy. He was born in the Pas, Manitoba and raised in the northerncommunity of Gillam, Manitoba. He attended school with the peoples of theFox Lake First Nation. He is a Band member of the Norway House CreeNation, where his mother attended residential school. Don has lived inFirst Nations communities in B.C. and Manitoba, and is a first cousin toformer Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Ovide Mercredi. Don has beena columnist for the aboriginal paper The Drum for the past 4 years. Hehas been employed with many First Nations in both Manitoba and BritishColumbia over the years in senior management positions. He is currentlyemployed seasonally with Manitobaâ€™s Department of Conservation. In1999, Mr. Sandberg ran as a Liberal candidate in the Manitoba provincialelection. He has spoken on native issues at political forums and ontelevision and radio over the years. He is constantly in touch with thepeople and the issues on many First Nations and brings forward on theirbehalf the problems and possible solutions that affect them.

NOTE#8
"...I knew that what was said to be driven from the bottom up, fromthe grassroots, was actually being driven from the top down. I hadcome to this conclusion by following the interconnections among theNGO's...many shaping this environment debate were connected...A centralfigure...was Maurice Strong...He played a large role in selling the worldon the Global Governance Agenda...- NGOs, governments, politicians,native peoples, Marxists, Maoists and democrats tied in knots with powercompanies and other great trade empires..." from Elaine Dewar,"Cloak of Green"

NOTE#9
"Go-To Think Tanks"
http://www.fpri.org/research/thinktanks/publications.html
http://www.fpri.org/research/thinktanks/directory/about.html

NOTE#10
Carroll Quigley in "Tragedy & Hope", p.132-3, 1966,
"The power and influence of this Rhodes-Milner (Lord Alfred) groupin British imperial affairs and in foreign policy since 1889, althoughnot widely recognized, can hardly be exaggerated."

NOTE#11
http://www.iisd.org/media/1996/nov_18_1996_b_en.asp
November 18, 1996
Strong Report Proposes That Knowledge Become the Basis of InternationalDevelopment
"Connecting with the World" was sponsored by three Canadianorganizations, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), theInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and theNorth-South Institute (NSI).
The group recommends that the International Development Research Centre(IDRC), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD),the North-South Institute (NSI) and other relevant institutions developcloser ties with the private sector and other donoragencies..."

Maurice Strong was the Chairman of the group producing the report. He is also past Chairman of the Board of Governors of IDRC and a directorat IISD.

http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/
Club of Rome Programme on
"A New Path for World Development"

NOTE#12
FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Contact information
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Suite 25 Lombard Concourse, One Lombard Place,
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3B 0X3
Tel: (204) 957-1567
Fax: (204) 957-1570
Web:http://www.fcpp.org
http://www.fcpp.org/about.php
http://www.fcpp.org/people.php?category_id=1
FCPP Board of Directors
Wayne Anderson, Chair
James Blatz
Rob Coghlan
Sue Hicks
John Heimbecker
Peter Holle
Peter Jessiman
Alexander McKenzie (Secretary)
Hon. Charlie Mayer
John R. Messer
Rick Riffel

Staff
Peter Holle, President
Dennis Owens, Senior Policy Analyst
Robert Sopuck, Director, Rural Renaissance Project
Claire Toews, Director of Administration
Henry Dyck, Director of Business Development
Robert Sopuck, Rural Renaissance Project
Donald Sandberg, Aboriginal Frontiers Project

"Peter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre forPublic Policy, an award-winning western Canadian based public policythink tank. Since its founding in 1997, Frontier has brought adistinctive and influential Prairie voice to regional and nationaldebates over public policy in areas such as core public sector reform,housing, poverty, aboriginals, consumer-focused health care performance,equalization, rural policy and much more. Of the nearly 100 recognizedthink tanks in Canada, Frontier is one of only 5 to make the 2008 global"Go-To Think Tanks" list published by the Think Tanks and CivilSocieties Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute inPhiladelphia. "
http://www.fcpp.org/people.php?category_id=2
Expert Advisory Panel

NOTE#13
Also on the 2008 list: Adam Smith Institute, Canadian Institute ofInternational Affairs CIIA, International Institute for SustainableDevelopment IISD, Centre for International Governance Innovation CIGI,C.D. Howe Institute and the Montreal Economic Institute. Thislatter organization headed by Helene Desmarais is a driving force behindwater diversion schemes. See Eagle Watch #2 "Ole Man PeteNever Quits Trying to Flood out Indigenous" July 22, 2009 at

This link goes to a list of Canadian Think Tanks. The North SouthInstitute is included.
http://thinktanks.fpri.org/list?country_op=or&country%5B%5D=Canada&view_name=list&view_display_id=page&view_args=a&view_path=index&view_base_path=index&view_dom_id=2&pager_element=0

NOTE#14
http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/about/funding.asp
"Funding
The North-South Institute receives two grants to support the financing ofits program of work at the Institutional level. These are a core grantfrom: CIDA and IDRC"

Strong is also the founder of CIDA which evolved out of the External AidOffice. He was President and Chairman of the Canadian InternationalDevelopment Bank CIDB. He has also been Senior Advisor to thePresident of the World Bank.

While searching the NSI, we came across this document.
"The Group of 78 Statement on Canadian Foreign Policy in the1980s"
http://www.web.net/~group78/English/Who/g78Statement.shtml
Peace. Justice. Survival.
The statement of the Group of 78 - for which the prime mover has beenAndrew Brewin, former NDP MP for Toronto Greenwood - follows:

The basic priorities of Canada's foreign policy should bethreefold:

Removal of the threat of nuclear war, the greatest danger facing mankindtoday;

the strengthening of the United Nations and other global institutionsdesigned to bring about a pacific settlement of disputes, fosterinternational cooperation, promote the growth of world law and theprotection of basic human rights;

the mobilization of world resources to achieve a more equitableinternational order and bring an end to the crushing poverty which is thecommon lot of the majority of the Third World...

Canada should make it clear that from the beginning it regarded the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as an interim security measure untilsuch time as a general system of collective security could beestablished...
Canada should also support UN efforts to establish an InternationalSatellite Monitoring Agency (ISMA). Such an agency, at present beingactively studied at the United Nations, is a proposal for a peacekeepingforce in space..."

Signatories include many academics, church leaders, Maurice Strong, (thendirector, International Energy Development Corp., London, first presidentof CIDA), Bernard Wood, (executive director, North South Institute),Margaret Laurence, (author and educator), George Ignatieff, (Mike'sdad, chancellor, University of Toronto and retired diplomat) andMarion Dewar, (then mayor of Ottawa).

NOTE#15
see Eagle Watch #187
Radio Broadcaster Denies Allegations of Mass Genocide of Mohawk Childrenby UK Queen and Vatican in Canada
October 23, 2011

NOTE#16
Because someone opposes capitalism does NOT make that person aMarxist. Both capitalism and marxism derive from the same source,judaism.

NOTE#17
How First Nations Can Own Their Future
Tom Flanagan, Globe and Mail, December 16, 2011

NOTE#18
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/the-man-behind-stephen-harper-tom-flanagan/
excerpt from a 2004 article in Walrus Magazine,
The Man Behind Stephen Harper
The new Conservative Party has tasted success and wants majority rule. IfTom Flanagan and his Calgary School have their way, they'll get itwithout compromising their principles
By Marci McDonald

"He went to Marquette High where the nuns on the Roman Catholicschool's teaching staff... "focused on the heroic feats of theFrench missionary who gave the school its name: Father Jacques Marquettewho teamed up with the voyageur Louis Jolliet to become the firstEuropeans to discover and trace the Mississippi. The emphasis was onFather Marquette and how he brought Catholicism to theIndians."

Tom went on to the Catholic bastion of Indiana's Notre Dame and then toDuke University in Durham, North Carolina where he got his PhD inpolitical science."

Some of his mentors are Eric Voegelin, a German-born philosopher who hadfled Hitler...John Hallowell, head of the political science departmentand one of Voegelin's disciples, Allan Kornberg, Duke's expert ondecoding the statistical mysteries behind voting patterns, Austrianeconomist Friedrich Hayek [adored by Maggie Thatcher] and Frans deWaal.

"1996 ... paper from a scholar at Johns Hopkins' School of AdvancedInternational Studies in Washington... twenty-page treatise entitled"The Calgary School: The New Motor of Canadian PoliticalThought" reported that a band of Alberta academics had "givenbirth to a new form of nationalism, that in turn is changing the terms ofdebate in English Canada."

...

"In 1983 Flanagan published Riel and the Rebellion: 1885Reconsidered... with a motive: to block lobbying for a posthumous pardonthat would exonerate Riel in time for the 1985 centennial of theNorthwest Rebellion. A pardon, he declared, "now strikes me as quitewrong."

"... Rehabilitating Riel's reputation, he warned, could costCanadian taxpayers billions in Metis land claims. What seems moststriking about the revised text is its notched-up adversarialtone...

...more research - an exercise that turns out to have been financedlargely from federal coffers. Between 1972 and 1994, he received nearly$620,000 in research grants on the subject from the Canada Council andthe Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. That largesseincludes a rare scholarly bonanza: $500,000 for a five-year project withfour other academics, co-editing the collected writings of Louis Riel.

"...in 1986. The Justice Department offered him a $103,000 contractas its chief historical consultant on one of the biggest land-claimscases before the federal courts: a suit by the Manitoba Métis Federationfor 1.4 million acres promised to Riel and his followers in1870...

"...Flanagan has... that role in a half-dozen other federalaboriginal disputes, including Victor Buffalo, et al. vs. The Queen - alandmark claim for more than $1 billion in damages by the Samson CreeNation at Hobbema, near Edmonton, over Ottawa's handling of its oil andgas royalties. The Manitoba and Alberta governments have also hired himfor their own battles over treaty rights. "What he's become is avery convenient tool for the government," says David Chartrand,president of the Manitoba Métis Federation.

..."He's concerned the state should not adopt people as wards,"says Allan Kornberg. "It eventually has a corrosive effect on theentire society." That libertarian loathing of special rights for anygroup is the philosophical underpinning of Flanagan's most provocativework, First Nations? Second Thoughts, which unleashed outrage not only inaboriginal circles, but in the usually restrained corridors of academe."These aren't second thoughts," says Joyce Green, an associateprofessor at the University of Regina and a Metis herself. "They'rethe same old first thoughts that the colonizers came with from Europe.It's a celebration of the original arguments that supported thesubordination of indigenous peoples."

What ignited the most fury was Flanagan's contention that aboriginalswere simply conquered peoples who'd been bested by Europeans with ahigher degree of "civilization," as he termed it. Thatargument, peppered with references to "savagery," hadn't beenheard in polite company for decades. "There's a fundamental racismthat underpins his view," says Radha Jhappan. "It's anamazingly selective reading of history and it's driven by a particularright-wing agenda that wants to undermine the claims ofcollectivity."

When First Nations? Second Thoughts won the $25,000 Donner Prize in 2001,Flanagan's foes weren't surprised. The award is funded by the DonnerCanadian Foundation, which set out to promote a Reaganite agenda in thiscountry. The foundation, in fact, funded Flanagan's basic research with a$25,000 grant.

...the Canadian Political Science Association cpsa awarded Flanagan'sbook its prestigious Donald Smiley Prize...

...Calgary's Canada West Foundation, Preston Manning and the foundation'spresident, Roger Gibbins...
[Manning says that Flanagan and Harper are the ones who deposedhim]

[After some brainstorming with Manning who went on to found the Reformparty....Flanagan had other interests] By then, Flanagan had plunged intoa new intellectual passion, the theories of the once scorned Austrianeconomist Friedrich Hayek, who lauded free markets as the cornerstone offree societies, impervious to intrusive government meddling. In the late1970s when Flanagan stumbled on his work, Margaret Thatcher had just cutshort a Conservative policy confab in Britain by slapping down Hayek'sThe Constitution of Liberty on a desk. "This," she said,"is what we believe."

[then after mulroney showed what he could do, flanagan joined manning in1990. but manning was a populist who wanted to communicate with thegrassroots while flanagan found this disgusting. he figured heshould run the whole show but they didn't listen to him]

When Manning's closest collaborator had suddenly become Anderson, aveteran Ottawa operative who'd run the Washington office of the lobbyinggiant, Hill & Knowlton, [Flanagan quit in 1992].

bio-politics - a collection of controversial theories on thebiological basis for power that had become the rage of the Americanright.

"Tom just fell in love with that literature," Gibbins recalls,"and brought it into the classroom." Indeed, on Flanagan'sreading list was one book that had sparked a personal epiphany: Frans deWaal's Chimpanzee Politics, which won raves from Newt Gingrich in The NewYork Times. A study of the world's largest captive chimp colony at aNetherlands zoo, it chronicles the scheming, coups, and ultimate murderof the would-be alpha male, Liut. Ezra Levant, then still a student,remembers being riveted by Flanagan's lectures on the subject. "Itwas the most radical class I ever took," he says. "If a seriesof young males were fighting for power, a thoughtful chimpanzee wouldmake alliances with all the losers and eventually take over thegroup."

... In de Waal's Dutch colony, savvy chimps built coalitions and bidedtheir time. Over the next years, Flanagan and Harper might not have beenon Reform's main stage, but they were far from inactive. A newintellectual infrastructure was taking shape on the Canadian right,echoing the web of conservative foundations and think tanks that pavedthe way for Reagan's 1980 ascension to the White House. Flanagan becamean activist in Civitas, a network of 300 conservative thinkers spawned bythe 1996 Winds of Change conference that Levant and fellow National Postcolumnist David Frum had organized in Calgary. Toronto's C.D. HoweInstitute - whose researcher, Ken Boessenkool, would later becomeHarper's policy chief - and Vancouver's Fraser Institute, which opened aCalgary office under Cooper, were routinely proffering policies onceconsidered too radically right wing for mainstream consumption

[after backing stockwell day, flanagan soon realized that was a mistaketoo...and threw in his lot with harper]

In one of their last joint literary efforts, Flanagan and Harperco-authored a public missive to Alberta premier Ralph Klein - co-signedby Boessenkool and two other members of the Calgary School - calling onhim to build a political "firewall" around Alberta. Thatfirewall letter, as it became known, demanded Klein use the muscle ofAlberta's oil wealth to sieze control over health care, opt out of theCanada Pension Plan, and send the rcmp packing in what would amount toquasi-secession from the federal bosom.

On Sunday, December 7, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Canada's Chief ElectoralOfficer, went to the office. He almost never worked weekends, but Harperand Progressive Conservative leader Peter MacKay persuaded Kingsley theycouldn't wait to register their new Conservative Party of Canada, forgedfrom a merger that had been ratified by MacKay's members in a vote onlythe night before.

[as harper's campaign manager, flanagan cut out a lot of otherpeople]From a war room that ironically once housed Groupe Action, the adfirm behind the Liberals' sponsorship scandal, he directed an electioneffort that stunned even veteran Parliament Hill reporters with itsfortress mentality. "Everything was very tightly held," saysone Tory. "It was circle the wagons completely."

As official co-chair of the Conservative campaign, Deborah Grey refusesto badmouth Flanagan - at least not in so many words. "He's brightand he's capable - a university guy - and I wish him well with hisclasses," she says. "Some guys fit and some guysdon't."

Flanagan has never blanched at owning up to his most contentious beliefs:scrapping medicare in favour of personal medical savings accounts - apolicy adopted by some U.S. corporations - and whittling aboriginalclaims on land and self-determination down to individual property rightsand municipal self-government.

...in Alberta, Ted Byfield, the unabashed voice of the West since theCalgary School's professors were pups, sees it another way - in terms LeoStrauss might have approved. "All these positions which Harpercherishes are there because of a group of people in Calgary - Flanaganmost prominent among them," Byfield says. "I don't think heknows how to compromise. It's not in his genes. The issue now is: how dowe fool the world into thinking we're moving to the left when we'renot?"

---
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/12/01/flanagan-wikileaks-assange.html
Flanagan regrets WikiLeaks assassination remark
Liberals file complaint with CBC ombudsman
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 1, 2010

NOTE#19
http://www1.carleton.ca/polisci/people/jhappan-radha
Radha Jhappan
Associate Professor Degrees: BA (Oxford) MA, PhD (British Columbia)
Phone: 613-520-2600 x. 2788
Email: rjhappan@connect.carleton.ca

NOTE#20
What is a RedNeck??
The meaning of the word "redneck" has been muddied by thepassage of time. To some it refers to some Scots loyalists; toothers it refers to "poor whites" whose necks got burned redfrom bending over working in the sun all day.

The self-proclaimed Redneck is sometimes not a bad guy. He's aworking class individual who never expects to rise much above his currentstatus in society.

The real and dangerous Redneck considers the term to be a "veryoffensive epithet". (see Walrus magazine) The real redneckfeels superior to others and aspires to be like the imperial elite. He cannot see or refuses to see the glass ceiling that will always keephim down at a certain level. Maybe that is why in denying his ownidentity, he needs others to downpress. He needs to be sure thereis someone lower than himself.

NOTE#21
http://www.itk.ca/media-release/national-aboriginal-leaders-want-stephen-harper-explain-writings-tom-flanagan
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Media Release
National Aboriginal Leaders Want Stephen Harper to Explain Writings OfTom Flanagan

NOTE#22
http://www.arts.uregina.ca/joyce-green
Joyce Green
Political Science University of Regina
Joyce Green
Professor
PhD - University of Alberta; MA - University of Calgary; BA/BSc -University of Lethbridge
Research Interests
"The indigenization of the university, a project ranging frominclusion of Aboriginal ideas and people to transformation of the canon,is a matter at the top of [my] research agenda for the forseeablefuture." Canadian constitution and politics, Aboriginaldecolonization, and critical post-colonial and feminist theory
Current Classes
On disability leave until further notice
Office: CL 209
Email: joyce.green@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4444
Fax: (306) 585-4815

NOTE#23
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/macleans/ted-byfield-profile
Ted Byfield has been writing conservative rants for decades. In1998, he published ""The Book of Ted: Epistles From anUnrepentant Redneck. Now an old man, he is working on the 7th in aseries of books, "The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years; AGlorious Disaster A.D. 1100 to 1300 The Crusades: Blood, Valor, Iniquity,Reason, Faith.

NOTE#24
The Royal Society of Canada
http://www.rsc.ca/rscinfo_what.php

"The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) is the senior national bodyof distinguished Canadian scholars, artists and scientists. It isCanada's national academy. The primary objective of the RSC is topromote learning and research in the arts and sciences. The RSCconsists of nearly 2000 Fellows, men and women who are selected by theirpeers for outstanding contributions to the natural and social sciences,in the arts and in the humanities.

"As Canada's national academy, the RSC exists to recognize academicexcellence, to advise governments and organizations, and to promoteCanadian culture.

"... The second responsibility of a national academy is to provideexpert advice on matters of national interest or urgency. The thirdresponsibility of a national academy is to promote its national cultureabroad. This occurs in a variety of ways, and includes service onmultilateral agencies (G8, UNESCO, IAP), ...

In the late 1870s, the Governor General of Canada, the Marquess of Lorne,determined that Canada required a cultural institution to assist withCanada's development. In 1883, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)was granted its Royal Charter and, since that time, succeeding governorsgeneral have remained closely involved with the affairs of thesociety. One of the functions of the President of the RSC is toserve on the Governor General's advisory council for appointments to theOrder of Canada. [like the recent appointment of Paul Martin, RickHillier and others].

The founding Fellows of the RSC included Sir Sanford Fleming, theoriginator of the world system of Standard Time, and Sir William Osler,one of the greatest physicians of his day. The "Fellows"of the RSC were nominated by a committee headed by the Principal ofMcGill University, Sir John William Dawson, and by the former Premier ofQuebec, Pierre J.O. Chauveau. These two men served as the first andsecond presidents of the society.

The RSC elects a total of approximately 75 Fellows per year. The RSC alsoelects up to 6 Specially Elected Fellows per year, for contributions tothe objectives of the society other than by scholarship andresearch. Finally, a number of Foreign Fellows are electedannually.

The RSC is governed by a 19-member Council, and by a 9-member ExecutiveCommittee of Council. Financial support is mainly from three sources:Fellows' subscriptions, membership contributions from 42 universitiesthroughout Canada, and private sector support.

...the RSC advises governments and organizations through the provision ofexpert reports that address matters of national urgency from aninterdisciplinary perspective."

Their expert panel reports include "Environmental and Health Impactsof Canada's Oil Sands Industry
(December 2010); A Review of the Potential Health Risks ofRadiofrequency Fields from Wireless Telecommunication Devices(1999)(2001-2003); Recommendations for the Disposition of the HealthCanada Primate Colony (1997) and their most recent, End-of-LifeDecision Making (November 2011).

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=6059
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
DAWSON, Sir JOHN WILLIAM, geologist, palaeontologist, author, educator,office holder, publisher, and editor; b. 13 Oct. 1820 in Pictou,N.S.
The Geological Society of London awarded Dawson the Lyell Medal in1881 for outstanding achievements in geology. In the same year thegovernor general, the Marquess of Lorne [Campbell*], called upon him toset up a royal society in Canada. Dawson envisaged a society similar tothe Royal Society of London, but Lorne was adamant that the Canadiansociety's scope be broader and that it embrace not only science but alsoarts and literature. Lorne realized that only in this way would it bepossible to involve to any significant extent the scholars andprofessionals of the French-speaking community. Accordingly, aprovisional council met with Lorne at Dawson's home in December 1881.Present were Dawson, Hunt, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau*,Narcisse-Henri-Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Daniel Wilson, GoldwinSmith*, Charles Carpmael, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn*, George Lawson,and John George Bourinot*. Together they drew up a constitution andproposed candidates for membership. The society was to be organized intotwo sections for the humanities and two sections for the sciences.Dawson, the founding president, remarked in his address to the firstmeeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1882 that membership was tobe limited to "selected and representative men who have themselvesdone original work of at least Canadian celebrity." The society wasto provide, in his words, "a bond of union between the scatteredworkers now widely separated in different parts of the Dominion."Its Transactions, to which Dawson would contribute numerous papers,notably on the fossil plants of western Canada, was for many years one ofthe principal Canadian outlets for the scholars of Canada.

NOTE#25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_charter
EXCERPT

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letterspatent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizationssuch as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished fromwarrants and letters of appointment, as they have perpetual effect.

At one time a royal charter was the only way in which an incorporatedbody could be formed, but other means (such as the registration processfor limited companies) are generally now used instead.

Canada
The Hudson's Bay Company building in MontrealA Royal Charter is grantedby Order in Council, either creating an incorporated body, or giving anexistent one special status.[7] This is an exercise of the RoyalPrerogative, and, in Canada, there are hundreds of organizations underRoyal Charters. Such organizations include charities, businesses,colleges, universities, and cities. Today, it is mostly charities andprofessional institutions who receive Royal Charters.

Application for a charter is a petition to the Queen-in-Council. Toreceive a Royal Charter, the organization must have corporate members whohave at least first degree level in a relevant field, consist of 5,000members or more, be financially sound, and it must be in the publicinterest to regulate the institution under a charter. However, meetingthese benchmarks does not guarantee the issuance of a RoyalCharter.[8]

[edit] Companies and societiesCompanies, corporations, and societies inCanada founded under or augmented by a Royal Charter include:

The Hudson's Bay Company; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1670 byKing Charles II[9]
The Royal Commonwealth Society; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1882by Queen Victoria[10]
The Royal Society of Canada; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1883 byQueen Victoria
The Royal Kennebecasis Yacht Club; founded by a Royal Charter issued in1898 by Queen Victoria[11]
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada; founded by a Royal Charterissued in 1903 by King Edward VII[12]
Scouts Canada; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1912 by King GeorgeV[13]
The Royal Academy of Dance; founded in 1920 as the Association ofTeachers of Operatic Dancing; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in1936 by King George V[14]
The Royal Conservatory of Music; founded in 1886 as the TorontoConservatory of Music; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1947 byKing George VI[15]
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1953 byQueen Elizabeth II[16]
The Royal Life Saving Society of Canada; founded by a Royal Charterissued in 1960 by Queen Elizabeth II[17]
The Royal Hamilton College of Music; founded in 1897 as the HamiltonConservatory of Music; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1965 byQueen Elizabeth II[18]
The Royal Western Nova Scotia Yacht Club; founded in 1898 as the DigbyYacht Club; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1969 by QueenElizabeth II[19]
Royal Ontario Museum, created in 1912 under the Royal Ontario Museum Actby the Province of Ontario, hence not created by a royal charter
Royal Canadian Yacht Club created by Royal Charter 1854
The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada; founded in 1966 as the HeraldrySociety of Canada; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 2002 byQueen Elizabeth II[20]
[edit] Territories and communitiesCities under Royal Charter are notsubject to municipal Acts of parliament applied generally to othermunicipalities, and instead are governed by legislation applicable toeach city individually. The Royal Charter codifies the laws applied tothe particular city, and lays out the powers and responsibilities notgiven to other municipalities in the province concerned.

Saint John; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1785 by King GeorgeIII[21]
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Montreal[22]
Nova Scotia; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1621 by King JamesI[23]
St. John's; claimed as England's first oversea colony by Royal Carterissued in 1583 by Queen Elizabeth I
[edit] Universities and collegesA number of Canadian universities andcolleges were founded under Royal Charter.

The University of King's College; founded by a Royal Charter issued in1802 by King George III
King's-Edgehill School; founded as King's Collegiate School by RoyalAssent in 1788 and granted Royal Charter in 1802 by King George III
McGill University; founded as the Royal Institution for the Advancementof Learning by a Royal Charter issued in 1821 by King George IV;reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1852 by QueenVictoria[24]
The University of Toronto; founded as King's College by a RoyalProclamation issued in 1827 by King George IV[25]
Upper Canada College; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1829 by KingGeorge IV
Queen's University; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1841 by QueenVictoria[26]
UniversitÃ© Laval; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1852 by QueenVictoria[27]
The University of Trinity College (later became a constituent college ofthe University of Toronto); given university status by a Royal Charterissued by Queen Victoria in 1852
Bishop's University; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1853 by QueenVictoria[28]

NOTE#26
"...the patterns of the Global Governance Agenda - NGO's,governments, politicians, native peoples, marxists, maoists and democratstied in knots with power companies and other great trade empires. His [Maurice Strong] cv was a record of a lifetime ofarrangements."
Cloak of Green, Elaine Dewar, p.252

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Stay Tuned for Part 2 - "Writing for ONE, Writing for ALL"

Kittoh

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From the Eagle Watch #202
January 11, 2012

What do you think?
Should UN inspectors "visit the lodgings of the indigenous citizens" as suggested by Iran??

4 articles:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219134.html
Iran summons Canadian envoy
Tue Jan 3, 2012 4:28PM GMT

Iranian Foreign Ministry
Iran has summoned the Canadian charge d'affaires over the increasingly concerning situation of the aboriginal citizens in the North American country.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Dennis Horak on Tuesday to convey Tehran's concern over the violation of the rights of the Canadian aboriginal peoples, which has also drawn criticism from international human rights organizations.

The ministry cited a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of the indigenous peoples James Anaya about "the dire social and economic condition" of aboriginal communities in Canada.

"As stated in the report, the unfavorable condition of the indigenous Canadians is a cause of sorrow and grief for the international community and the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly protests against the blatant violation of these people's rights by the Canadian government," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a press release.

The statement referred to the poor educational, economic and professional condition of the indigenous Canadians as a violation of their basic rights, calling on Ottawa to immediately allow UN inspectors to visit the lodgings of the indigenous citizens and to facilitate the activities of international human rights groups.

Iran also called on the Canadian government to respect its international commitments and obligations and cooperate with the country's aboriginal community to find a permanent solution to their problems.

MRS/PKH/HGH

Related Stories:
Iran raps UN over US, Canada HR flouts Iran to pursue Canada rights violations

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211438.html
Iran raps UN over US, Canada HR flouts
Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:24AM GMT

Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad-Javad Larijani
Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad-Javad Larijani has criticized the UN for its failure to address the violations of human rights by the US and Canada.

Speaking at a Monday meeting of the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, Larijani pointed to frequent instances of human rights breach in the US and Canada and said, "Unfortunately, the human rights committee has issued no resolutions against these two countries."

He denounced the UN rights committee's approach as "discriminatory," and noted, "Why shouldn't the US and Canada come under pressure for their numerous violations of human rights?" IRNA reported.

On Monday, the UN General Assembly's Third Committee passed a Canadian-drafted resolution which expressed concern over what it called "human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran."

The resolution was approved with 86 votes in favor, 32 against, and 59 abstentions.

The Iranian rights official described the resolution as "substantially unfounded and absolutely preposterous," and condemned 'the double standard' policies adopted at the UN committee, when it came to human rights issues in different countries.

Larijani pointed to the encroachment on human rights in the West and stated that Islamophobia and infringement of the basic rights of Muslims are widespread in the Western world.

The UN's human rights special rapporteur has reported on cases of violations of women's rights, particularly the rights of African American women, in the US army and prisons, he pointed out.

The Iranian official also made reference to the daily killing of Afghan women and children in the US assassination drone attacks and said that such instances constitute "another case of human rights violation by the US" in Afghanistan.

The US regularly carries out assassination attacks by unmanned aircraft on Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal regions, claiming that the airstrikes target pro-Taliban militants. However, local people say that civilians are the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned strikes.

Larijani also lashed out at the Canadian government for its "racist nature," and pointed out that the international Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination has expressed concerns about the situation of minorities in Canada.

ASH/GHN/HJL

WHERE'S THAT ARTICLE ON THE RECENT DRONE BOMBING INPAKISTAN????

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/125638.html

Iran to pursue Canada rights violations
Thu May 6, 2010 2:54PM GMT

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Iran slams Canada for its stance on Tehran's election to a UN panel on women's rights and says Ottawa should answer for the violation of the rights of its indigenous groups.

Canada on Saturday reacted to a UN decision to appoint Iran, along with 10 other countries, to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) for the term beginning in 2011.

"The approach adopted by Canadian authorities toward human rights is influenced by political grudges and suspicious lobbies that serve Zionist interests," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Thursday.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said in a Saturday statement that there was "serious concerns" about Iran's election to the UNCSW.

"We deplore this development but will use Iran's membership on this body to take the Iranian authorities to task for their systemic human rights violations," he added.

The UNCSW seeks to ensure women's rights by investigating nations that violate women's rights, monitoring their efforts to improve women's equality and detail their shortcomings.

Mottaki also said that Iran would "seriously pursue the violation of the rights of women and indigenous groups" in countries such as Canada.

AKM/HGH

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220449.html

Car bomb kills Iranian scientist
Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:20PM GMT
LAST UPDATE

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's partly-blown car is seen in this photo after his assassination in Tehran on January 11, 2012.A car bomb explosion in the Iranian capital, Tehran, has killed a nuclear scientist and his driver, and wounded one bystander.

On Wednesday morning, an unknown motorcyclist attached a sticky bomb to Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's car near Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.

Ahmadi Roshan was immediately killed as the result of explosion, and his driver and a bystander, who had sustained injuries, were transferred to Resalat hospital.

The driver, identified as Reza Qashqaei, passed away later on Wednesday in hospital.

Ahmadi Roshan was a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and served as marketing deputy of Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.

On November 29, 2010, unidentified terrorists slapped adhesive bombs onto the vehicles of Iranian university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi and detonated them.

Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, and his wife sustained minor injuries and were rushed to a hospital.

On December 2, 2010, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that the Israeli Mossad, the American CIA, and the British MI6 all played a role in those attacks.

Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, another scholar at Tehran University, was assassinated by a booby-trapped motorbike in the Iranian capital in January 2010.

The bombing took place near the professor's home in northern Tehran.

SF/MB/GHN/MYA/HGH

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Aim Southern Cal

2:41pm Jan 11

http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/every-day-little-issues-and-the-infestation-of-apathoids-in-indian-country.html

The Infestation of Apathoids in Indian Country - Native News Network

www.nativenewsnetwork.com

American Indians afflicted by apathy, have become Apathoids. We that are comfortable with oppression...

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--
"When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane.

When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person.

When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful.

Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen

Indigenous & Other News

2012-01-04T19:46:00.000-08:00

Indigenous and Other News

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PIE IN THE SKY

MNN Dec. 16, 2011. Can civilization based on the violent hierarchical system and the natural world exist side by side? No!

How do Indigenous minds, bodies and society continue to live in reality? What keeps some humans in slavery?

Hierarchical civilization is unhealthy unnatural crowded living, brought here by the invaders. They gobble up resources. People have to decide to either start sharing or stay on the take.

Capitalist civilization depends on constant violence against people, land, water and wild life. Today people have to pay to exist on the earth, or armed men will take them and everything they have away.

Long ago Mohawk artist and writer, Karonhiaktajeh, painted the "Sleeping Lion" with an Ongwehonwe face. He said we were forced to become invisible to avoid the jaws of the hungry masses. One day these visitors will be fighting each other. We would then begin to stir. Resistance does not have to be violent. Just make it inconvenient.

Fascism has taken over the US. Genocide continues through depriving people of water, shelter, food, medical care and poisoning of the environment.

Hierarchical ownership is when some individuals have more than they need. Their control system is like a pyramid with a few bosses sitting at the top. Without gluttonous ownership hierarchy wouldn't exist.

The middle class impose pacifism. The rulers give them power to make decisions on our behalf. Manufacturing, administration and labor have been moved to other countries. Their money is in offshore accounts. Now they are leaving. Those left behind are losing their masters and destroy their civilization from the inside.

The war against man and nature is becoming savage. Humans are being controlled by technology and artificial global markets.

Can we free ourselves from this Frankenstein culture?

We Indigenous have web-like relationships of inter-connected independent communities, made up of individuals, like an array of invisible knots.

Units are equal. Social, political, economic, education and so on are structured circularly.

Indigenous energy is based on the individual surrounded by family, clans, community and nation. Strength comes from home and family, the strongest force in the natural world.

Communication with outsiders is voluntary. Soon each community must provide its own food, energy and heating.

Information is power.

In hierarchy the bosses want all the information. It flows up and down, controlled by bureaucratic paths. Bosses are told what they want to hear. Organization spies report to them. Collecting information is expensive.

Small Indigenous networks keep daily information in the hands of the many, with less distortion.

Like the human brain, connections are nurtured with sister communities to process information and pathways.

Though Indigenous social, political and economic life are invisible, tribal and band councils' job is to report us to their colonial overseers. Yet they know little about us.

The almost bankrupt US enterprise must mobilize all its resources at great cost to control its people.

The fast flowing river has its natural destination. We have to let go of the shore, push off to the middle, keep our eyes open and heads above water. Some will be afraid and try to hold onto the shore.

Don't look outside for leaders. Be the person you think you are.

The colonists have created great distress. Their people are seeking help. Their suicide phone lines are outsourced to India, where Mohammad listens to their problems.

They think they can fight nature and live happily ever after.

An elder advised us, "All we can do at this time is try to hit the all seeing eye on the pyramid with a cream pie!"

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Bob Norman

5:26am Dec 16

expect to see more elders freeze to death if this ***#@& gets his way...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/rick-santorum-cut-assistance_n_1152279.html?1323991662&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Rick Santorum: Cut Heating Assistance, Unemployment Benefits

www.huffingtonpost.com

HOLSTEIN, Iowa -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said on Thursday he would end federa...

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Aim Southern Cal

12:48am Dec 20

Historical Moment- Powerful Medicine

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2835357328774.146014.1404441849&type=3

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LONDON BANK FALLING DOWN LIKE WTC

MNN: 19 Dec. 2011. Because we aren't like the colonial invaders, how many of us thought we were crazy? They tried to make us imitate and look like them. We're not taking it anymore! Look what's happening.

The US and European economies are falling like the WTC.

European Union EU is a non-military empire, run by the IMF, EU and Central Bank. Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland are staying in the EU prison, to help tear it down from inside.

The US was never going to be an empire. Their job was to create wars for the bankers.

Millions of US rulers and their middle class agents are fleeing Great Turtle Island with the cashbox that contains the country's resources and riches, to deposit into the City of London [central bank].

Political, financial and crime bosses will follow the money. Those left behind will suffer without leaders to tell them what to do. They will tear the US apart from within.

Technology is creating fabricated information leading to decisions full of error.

Government wages unending war on innocent foreigners and now there's payback on their own people. The masses are being threatened with austerity, fuel blockages, riot police, checkpoints, drones, limited mobility, an economic collapse, draconian controls, health emergencies, no political and legal order, starvation and death.

Their moral compass is based on property, thrill seeking, addiction and kleptomania. Their politicians and CEOs steal millions, so they emulate them.

President Obama signed the Defense Authorization Act to bring in martial law. Any US citizen can be arrested and detained without any criminal charges. 50 FEMA camps are ready to accept prisoners. Millions of family-size plastic coffins await.

The ex-pats are moving to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, South Africa, Spain, Brazil, Czechoslavakia, Thailand, Buenos Aires and Argentina, where English is spoken. Japan, France, Italy and UK are out. Too expensive.

Americans can't easily learn other languages. These unilingualists can't see the perceptions of others.

Their brain patterns are being technologically altered to numb the creative side. Their culture short circuits their thinking, causing a bipolar like behavior. They fantasize and blind themselves to reality.

The Western mind has been conditioned to be weak, shallow, blood thirsty and guiltless. They suffer from anxiety and depend on medications. Pharmaceuticals create diseases and addictive poison cures.

Their artists are like Indigenous whose intuition and intellect work together to see reality. Many scientists and artists are politically persecuted or murdered. They could have been the voice of truth.

Information at the top of the pyramid will always be incomplete. Voices below are varied, as they should be, with more insights. The rulers are confused and have lost control of the masses.

The old Soviet Union locked away its critics. The United States expels them. Blacklists and restricted employment often work as effectively as the Soviet gulag system.

We indigenous are staying out of their way but won't let them trample us.

We don't have technology. Yet our way is infiltrating their system.

In the song, London Bridge, "Take the key and lock them up, lock them up, lock them up. Take the key and lock them up, my fair lady". Remember, nothing artificial can last. Nature tears down all walls.

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Aim Santa Barbara posted in American Indian Movement Southern Callifornia.

Aim Santa Barbara

7:34pm Dec 20

“I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” Wilma Mankiller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljD2R-y2G-4&feature=plcp&context=C3042bc2UAOEgsToPDskK7t-dEgksqnjxMwLYyz6yk

children addressing mascots and sacred items.

www.youtube.com

Native children addressing the issue of mascots and sacred items.

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Night Sky Watcher WGHW

Cesar Millan

As we celebrate the return of our soldiers, we can't forget the hero dogs of war, many suffering from PTSD,

https://www.cesarsway.com/dogbehavior/fearandanxiety/Veteran-Dogs-Suffering-from-PTSD

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Intertribal Sacred Land Trust

http://www.itslt.org/index.html

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From the Eagle Watch #199
December 28, 2011

Here's an important article on the NUCLEAR topic. It must beimportant, several people sent it to us!!
K.

From: Gordon Edwards
Subject: Canada shipping bomb-grade uranium to U.S., ‘
secret’ memo says
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:23:24 -0500
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Background:

See http://www.ccnr.org/maple_heu.html and

http://www.ccnr.org/crl_sacrifice.pdf pp. 32-35

For those able to receive Canadian television

broadcasts:

This story will be on Global TV National News

tonight at 6 pm. and on CTV National

News tonight at 11 pm.

Gordon Edwards.

Canada quietly shipping

bomb-grade uranium to U.S.,

‘secret’ federal memo says

Andy Blatchford, Canadian Press via Toronto Star,Tue Dec 27 2011
http://tinyurl.com/7t4zn3k

MONTREAL—Weapons-grade uranium is quietly being transported

within Canada, and into the United States,in shipments the country’s

nuclear watchdog wants to keep cloaked insecrecy.

A confidential federal memo obtained through the Access to

Information Act says at least one payload ofspent, U.S.-origin

highly enriched uranium fuel has alreadybeen moved stateside

under a new Canada-U.S. deal.

The shipments stem from the highly publicized agreement signed

last year by Prime Minister Stephen Harperand U.S. President Barack

Obama, amid fears that nuclear-bomb-makingmaterial could fall into

the hands of terrorists.

The Canadian stash gradually being shipped from Chalk River, Ont.,

contains hundreds of kilograms of highlyenriched uranium — large

enough to make several Hiroshima-sizednuclear bombs.

But even as the radioactive freight travels toward the U.S. border, the

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has noplans to hold public

hearings or disclose which communities liealong the delivery route.

The shipments themselves are protected by intense security protocol,

which means specifics like routes,transportation method, quantities

and schedules remain top secret.

The federal nuclear body, a co-regulator of the uranium transfers, says

rules restrict it from disclosing suchinformation to the public.

A ministerial memorandum, classified as “Secret,” says the nuclear

watchdog considers it unnecessary to holdpublic sessions that would

allow citizens to ask questions and commenton the shipments.

That same memorandum, dated Feb. 25, 2011, points out that recent

hearings for another nuclear-shipment casegenerated intense public

and media interest. The controversy hasstalled the project to ship

16 generators from a Bruce Power nuclearplant through the Great

Lakes, up the St. Lawrence River and ontoEurope.

The memo, obtained by The Canadian Press, appears to warn against

a repeat scenario.

“Given the public and media interest surrounding Bruce Power’s plan ...

there may be an expectation that similarinformation be made public on

the shipments of spent HEU (highly enricheduranium) fuel to the U.S.,

and that the CNSC (Canadian Nuclear SafetyCommission) hold public

hearings,” said the document, addressed tothen-natural resources

minister Christian Paradis.

“To date, the CNSC has not considered it necessary to hold public

hearings on the shipment of spent HEU fuelto the U.S.”

When asked why public hearings aren’t necessary for the uranium

deliveries, a commission spokeswoman repliedby email: They “are

not carried out given the robustness of thepackages used and due to

the security issues related to the transfersof highly enriched uranium.”

The government added that there has never been a significant transport

accident involving nuclear materials,anywhere in the world, and that

such shipments occur regularly inCanada.

It said only authorized people or agencies, like police forces along the

shipment route, are made aware of thedetails.

One nuclear expert said theft is the primary concern when shipping

highly enriched uranium fuel — because thereis virtually no danger

of leaks or explosions.

“If I were the people doing the shipping and so on, I’d want to keep as

low a profile as possible ... you don’t wantto give terrorists or criminals

any advantage,” said Bill Garland, aprofessor emeritus from McMaster

University in nuclear engineering.

“There’s a greater risk in the general public knowing, because then the

bad guys would know as well.”

As for non-theft incidents, like possible road accidents, he describedthe

containers carrying the substance as highlyresistant to collisions,

chemicals, fire and explosions.

“It’s relatively easy to contain and secure and it’s not going to go offlike

a bomb,” Garland said.

“I would have no hesitation sitting in the truck and driving across the

country with it. It wouldn’t bother me inthe least.”

Garland added that drivers share Canadian highways every day with

trucks carrying loads of liquid chemicals,like gasoline and chlorine,

that would pose a much bigger danger in asmash-up than nuclear waste.

While the risks are small, he said, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.He

warned that radiation could be released ifsomeone deliberately opened

a container, for instance.

Garland said moving uranium poses far more danger than shipping Bruce

Power’s old generators up the St.Lawrence.

He calls the generator shipments a “trivial radioactive situation” and a

“non-issue” because the cylinders hold verylow levels of radioactive

material. He said that even if they fellinto the bottom of the river, the

generators would pose a negligiblerisk.

Canada has been importing highly enriched bomb-grade uranium from

the U.S. to make medical isotopes at ChalkRiver for the past two decades.

While Canada has been pushing for allnations to move to low-enriched

uranium, it maintains a large inventory ofthe substance at Chalk River.

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From the Eagle Watch #200
December 28, 2011

Here's some energy info on the effects of wind turbines.
Kittoh

----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Church
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 7:41 AM
Subject: Study: Falmouth turbines hurt abutters' health

This is an article about the Bruce McPherson Infrasound and Low FrequencyNoise Study. The study has been reviewed and commented on confirming someaspects of it. In the study the two technicians experience the symptomsas they did their work--what a bonus.

The study can be downloaded from this site. http://randacoustics.com/wind-turbine-sound/wind-turbines-published-articles/the-bruce-mcpherson-ilfn-study/

Grant

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111226/NEWS/112260313

Study: Falmouth turbines hurt abutters' health

By SEAN TEEHAN
steehan@capecodonline.com
December 26, 2011

FALMOUTH — A study released last week concludes wind turbines in Falmouthnegatively affect abutters' health.

The analysis was partially funded by a grant from Bruce McPherson, whoopposes the Falmouth wind project and other turbine projects on Cape Cod.Its results assert that wind turbines cause "visceral" physicalreactions and that sound waves from turbines are felt more intenselyindoors than outside.

Related Links

Cape Cod Times windenergy coverage

"We did not expect it," said Stephen E. Ambrose, a Maineenvironmental sound consultant who co-authored The Bruce McPhersonInfrasound and Low Frequency Noise Study.

Ambrose declined to release the amount he was paid but said he and apartner each spent about 800 hours on the study.

Ambrose and Robert W. Rand, who also specializes in sound studies,conducted their research over three days in April, Ambrose said.

The two former employees of Stone & Webster Inc., a Stoughtonengineering firm that designs and builds power plants, have conductedpeer reviews on acoustics from turbines for several towns inMassachusetts, Maine and Wyoming.

For this study, Ambrose and Rand lived in a house near Blacksmith ShopRoad for three days while measuring pressure originating from infrasound.They documented the intensity of sound frequencies from a privately ownedturbine in the Falmouth Technology Park and how their bodies responded toit. The turbine studied is roughly the size of Falmouth's two municipalturbines.

When the two arrived at the house — located 1,700 feet from the turbine —on April 17, they began feeling effects within 20 minutes, according tothe study. Both felt nausea, dizziness and anxiety, among other sideeffects.

They also reported having difficulty performing "normalactivities" associated with the investigation, which includedsetting up instruments and observing measurements, the reportstates.

According to a chart included in the study, the discomfort and sickfeelings intensified as wind speeds increased and the blades spunfaster.

Previous sound studies that showed no negative health effects were doneoutdoors, Ambrose said. The recent study, which used low-frequencymicrophones to measure sound waves, showed sounds are more intenseindoors than out. Data from this study showed a 10 dbG (a measurement forinfrasound) increase outdoors and a 20 dbG increase indoors. The effectis similar to "living in a drum," he said.

An independent review of the acoustics data indicates it isscientifically valid, Nancy S. Timmerman, chairwoman of the AcousticalSociety of America's Technical Committee on Noise, said in an email. Sheadded that she can speak only to data on acoustics, not physiologicaleffects reported in the study.

Jim Cummings, executive director of Acoustic Ecology Institute, anotherexpert who looked at the study, said in an email the results could be ared flag on the correlation between infrasound and negative healtheffects, but more data are needed to establish proof.

"This is an indication, for sure, but a short sampling to base largeclaims on," Cummings wrote. "This and one other recent paperfrom the Association for Noise Control Engineers conference, Noise-Con,are both good indications that infrasound could be more problematic thangenerally assumed."

Falmouth Selectman Mary Pat Flynn, chairman of the board, said the studyis one of many the board has received about wind turbines. Others showlittle or no harm caused by turbines, she said.

"We've had a number of studies sent to us, and they all havedifferent points of view, and they all have different outcomes,"Flynn said.

Ambrose and Rand's study comes as the state Department of EnvironmentalProtection prepares itself for a sound study of the Falmouth-owned Wind 1turbine. Environmental regulators agreed in September to conduct thestudy after Falmouth selectmen reached out to the department inSeptember.

"It's still in the works, still under review," said Ed Coletta,a DEP spokesman. "We're hoping to get it done soon."

Last month selectmen announced the town would shut down the 1.64-megawattWind 1 — except during the tests — until April's town meeting. The townalso plans to start up the Wind 2 turbine for 60 days, during which timeofficials plan to log complaints from residents.

The announcement came as a compromise after Wind 1 abutters filed anonbinding town meeting article that asked selectmen to keep bothturbines off until "mitigation options are fully explored and theexistence of injurious conditions upon nearby residents can bequalified."

Wind 2, which has sat idle for about a year, could begin spinning for itstrial period before mid-January, said Gerald Potamis, Falmouth'swastewater superintendent, who oversees the two municipalturbines.

Next month, Falmouth selectmen will choose a consultant to help advisethe town on minimizing the impact of wind turbines on neighbors, Flynnsaid. Four firms were presented to selectmen during a meeting Dec. 19.The board will accept suggestions from residents until Jan. 4 and plansto choose one Jan. 9, Flynn said.

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WALKABOUT, BILLY B.
Sergeant, United States Army
Company F, 58th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Date of Action: November 20, 1968
Headquarters, United States Army, Vietnam, General Orders No. 3945 (1969)

Citation:

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Billy B. Walkabout, Sergeant, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company F, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile).

Sergeant Walkabout (then Specialist Four) distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 20 November 1968 during a long range reconnaissance patrol southwest of Hue.

After successfully ambushing an enemy squad on a jungle trail, the friendly patrol radioed for immediate helicopter extraction. When the extraction helicopters arrived and the lead man began moving toward the pick-up zone, he was seriously wounded by hostile automatic weapons fire. Sergeant Walkabout quickly rose to his feet and delivered steady suppressive fire on the attackers while other team members pulled the wounded man back to their ranks. Sergeant Walkabout then administered first aid to the solider in preparation for medical evacuation. As the man was being loaded onto the evacuation helicopter, enemy elements again attacked the team.

Maneuvering under heavy fire, Sergeant Walkabout positioned himself where the enemy were concentrating their assault and placed continuous rifle fire on the adversary. A command-detonated mine ripped through the friendly team, instantly killing three men and wounding all the others. Although stunned and wounded by the blast, Sergeant Walkabout rushed from man to man administering first aid, bandaging one soldier's severe chest wound and reviving another soldier by heart massage. He then coordinated gunship and tactical air strikes on the enemy's positions. When evacuation helicopters arrived again, he worked single-handedly under fire to board his disabled comrades. Only when the casualties had been evacuated and friendly reinforcements had arrived, did he allow himself to be extracted.

Sergeant Walkabout's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
HQ US Army, Vietnam, General Orders No. 3945 (1969)

Military Decorations Distinguished Service Cross,
Legion of Valor,
Five Silver Stars,
10 Bronze Stars (five for valor),
Seven Air Medals,
10 Army Commendation Medals (five for valor),
Six Purple Hearts,
Vietnamese Medal of Honor,
Two Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palms,
Two Unit Citations to Individual Teams,
Presidential Citation for Meritorious Service,
Two Vietnam Presidential Citations,
Two Vietnam Presidential Cross of Gallantry with Palms,
Vietnamese Service Medal,
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal,
National Defense Service Medal (with Service Star),
Combat Infantryman Badge,
Parachutist Badge,
HALO Parachutist Badge,
Vietnamese Parachutist Badge,
Ranger Tab,
101st Recondo Badge,
Jungle Expert Badge
MACV Recondo Badge.

Billy Walkabout retired at the rank of second lieutenant. He is the most decorated American Indian soldier of the Vietnam War.

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SKY IS NOT FALLING

MNN. Jan. 1, 2012. No. The world is not coming to an end. It's continuing. We're been lead to think that we are heading into a trap to be devoured if we don't submit. Terrorized people are afraid to take action.

The dishonorable gang of inbred elites try to run the world. The upper middle class, their hired guns, have been replaced by machines. They're leaving Great Turtle Island.

The people of color are staying.

Republican presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, boasted, "You don't have to become a drug dealer, pimp or a prostitute when you can wash our bathroom toilets and floors". [Is he referring to his filthy mouth?]

Some colonists want to join the Indigenous. They know it's all our land, water, air and resources. Are they ready to live under the rules of nature?

They could follow the white roots to the source. If their mind is clean and they agree to obey the laws of the Rotinoshonnionwe, they can take shelter beneath the tree of the long leaves.

The bankers are the pirates. They invented the Maritime Admiralty Legal system to settle business disputes around the world. They incorporated states like the US and Canada and illegally put them on Indigenous lands. People who signed on became their property. Their official flags can only be placed on buildings, not on Great Turtle Island, which was never surrendered.

The Haldimand Proclamation 1784 is unique. A track within the vast Haudenosaunee Territory was set aside as a British Protectorate forever for the Mohawks. Their agents of the crown [federal, provincial, municipal, etc.] that breach their supreme law are guilty of high treason. The Military Court can punish them by firing squad or hanging. Encroachers beware!

The bankers fear becoming obsolete should an infinite free fuel be found. They are blinding us by warfare. Their worst is coming as they approach their death throws.

When they say peace, they really mean war. Peace is uncompromising truth. Nature is real and true. They hope everybody is unnatural like them.

Their link to the world is through technology, while they try to disconnect us from the natural world.

Their corporations create supermen, that push the dooms day clock and threaten nuclear war.

The world will survive. The bankers can't buy mother earth.

They tried to turn Great Turtle Island into a prison where life and the environment are not precious. For 500 years we've been penned up by these maniacs. Now they are going, leaving behind our land and life.

Here's an idea! The head rulers can sit in a big room inside a bunker. The walls are covered with hundreds of televisions. They hold remotes and watch everything that's going on. They click, kill and neutralize those who might undo their position and power.

We let them think they are all powerful, while we go about our lives and ignore them. They can flick all they want. "Change the channel, honey!" We're in charge of the cable and what they seeing!

Their greatest fear is, "They will be cast down from whence they came for all eternity".

They need to turn money into more money and to continue their illusion.

As Bob Dylan sang in 1963 "Masters of War": "Let me ask you one question, is your money that good? Could it buy you forgiveness, do you think that it could? I think you will find when your death takes its toll, all the money made will never buy back your soul".

Their treasure has no real value. Mother Earth and the great natural power are the dictators.

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CREW Cuts
The Monthly Newsletter of CREW // January 2012 // Issue No. 56

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SPOTLIGHT: CREW Files FEC Complaint Against Newt Gingrich

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will do anything to make a buck, including, it seems, violate campaign finance laws. After reports of his shady financial dealings first surfaced in the Washington Post, we asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate whether or not Mr. Gingrich illegally funneled $42,000 dollars from his campaign to his own pocket.

Mr. Gingrich joins a growing list of candidates, like Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) and Christine O’Donnell (R-DE),who have been caught using their campaign funds for personal gain. At some point, even the generally indifferent FEC -- which is at least supposed to enforce campaign finance laws -- should find this trend troubling.
■Learn more.
■Read our complaint against Newt Gingrich. [PDF]
■Read our complaint against Rep. Andrews. [PDF]

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CREW Names the Top Scandals of 2011

Lecherous lawmakers, a deadbeat dad, and absentee agencies made our list of 2011’s top political scandals. With actions ranging from the moronic to the outright illegal, it’s hard to argue with any entry on this year’s list, and pretty easy to see why Americans harbor such a dim view of Washington.
■Learn more.
■Read our report, Top Scandals of 2011. [PDF]

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CREW Pushes to End Congressional Insider Trading

Thanks to a recent 60 Minutes report, the problem of congressional insider trading has received some long-overdue attention. Enter the STOCK Act, which would explicitly ban members of Congress and their staff from using non-public knowledge for financial gain.

Melanie Sloan testified before a Senate committee, explaining that our lawmakers should have to obey the same laws as the rest of us. Unfortunately, Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has stopped the bill in its tracks, even though it has more than 230 cosponsors.

We’ll keep fighting for passage of the STOCK Act. This one should be a no-brainer for legislators.
■Learn more.
■Read Melanie Sloan's Senate testimony. [PDF]
■Read our letter to House Republican leadership, urging passage of the act.
■Watch Melanie Sloan discussing the STOCK Act on CNN’s AC360.

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CREW Report Finds Obama Administration Makes Transparency Gains; Challenges Remain

CREW teamed up with OpenTheGovernment.org to compare the Obama administration’s FOIA performance with that of the Bush administration. We found that even though there have been strides in the right direction, there is still a long way to go.

Federal agencies are processing requests faster, but frequently they also are relying on exemptions to withhold information. While the Obama administration has aimed to be the most transparent in history, it has yet to dismantle the culture of secrecy.
■Learn more.
■Read our report. [PDF]

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CREW to Congress: Pass the Clean Up Government Act

There should be no protection for corrupt lawmakers. We’re pushing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Cantor to schedule a floor vote on the “Clean Up Government Act.” This important legislation would restore the honest services fraud and illegal gratuities statutes, helping federal prosecutors to fight public corruption.

The bill was approved unanimously by the generally contentious House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed nearly identical legislation. With such (rare) broad bipartisan support, this is one bill that should land on President Obama’s desk quickly.
■Learn more.
■Read CREW’s letter to the House Judiciary Committee. [PDF]
■Read CREW’s letter to House Republican leadership requesting a vote. [PDF]

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ATTAWAPISKAT, KASHACHEWAN AND DEBEERS DIAMONDS, COLD AS ICE

2012-01-04T19:09:00.001-08:00

ATTAWAPISKAT, KASHACHEWAN AND DEBEERS DIAMONDS, COLD AS ICE

MNN: 18 Dec. 2011. Kashechewan is a Cree community on James Bay. In 2005 half their people had been evacuated due to DeBeers Diamond Mining overloading the sewage system. In 2010 they gave $5,231,000 to eight Indigenous communities, most of which went to lawyers, consultants and the political elite; DeBeers took out $446,020,000.00 worth of diamonds. In 2005 MNN was called in to Kashachewan, just south of Attawapiskat. COLD AS ICE, is a story about three Kanionkehaka who were kept out. We issued an Objection to DeBeers. It's relevant to the Attawapiskat issue. Please read and understand. MNN Mohawk Nation News.

KANION'KE:HAKA WOMEN TITLE HOLDERS

P. O. Box 991, Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory

(Quebec, Canada) J0l 1B0

450-635-9345 613-575-1550

Kahentinetha2@yahoo.comkatenies20@yahoo.com

Jan. 15, 2006.

PUBLIC NOTICE OF OBJECTION

TO DEBEERS DIAMOND MINE EXPLOITATION

OF KASHECHEWAN CREE COMMUNITY ON JAMES BAY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO CANADA

Re: DeBeers Diamond Mine exploitation of

Kashechewan Cree community on James Bay in Northern Ontario Canada

To:

President, De Beers Diamond Mines; Queen Elizabeth II; Prime Minister of Canada; Governor General of Canada; Premier of Ontario; Indian Affairs Canada; Progressive Party of Canada; New Democratic Party of Canada; Bloc Quebecois Party; UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights; International Commission for Human Rights; Coalition Criminal Court; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Bono; Ontario Aboriginal Affairs; Supreme Court of Canada; Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada; Health Canada; National Defense; U.S. President George Bush;

International Peace Academy; Royal Canadian Military Institute; Canadian High Commission Trade Office in Johannesburg, South Africa (addresses/emails at end)

She:kon/Greetings:

We the Women Title Holders of the Kanion'ke:haka are filing an objection to the exploitation of the Crees of Kashechewan by DeBeers, Indian Affairs, Ontario Government and their agents. This private company and these governments have no legal authority under Canadian, international or Cree law to interfere with the indigenous resources involved. We advise you to back off immediately!

Although we are not Cree, we have a duty under the Kaianereh'ko:wa, our constitution, to help all our Indigenous brothers and sisters from the east to the west coast of Turtle Island. We also have a duty as citizens of the world to uphold the equal and inalienable rights of all people and to defend their human rights.

The people of Kashechewan have been deprived of the most basic human rights. There is presently a crisis of E-coli contamination of the water. The Canadian government Department of Indian Affairs caused it and refuses to fix it. This has been going on for 9 years. At the end of October 2005, half of the 2,000 people were suddenly evacuated to southern Canadian cities all over Ontario. They were put in cheap hotels and military institutions. They were deprived of their right to their community, family relations and to have a decent standard of living. Unlike refugee claimants in Canada, they were given no resources to ensure their survival. They had to rely on vouchers and handouts which restricted their freedom. They could not provide for themselves and their families in these alien environments. One family was evacuated to Sault Ste. Marie. When they wanted to go home, Indian Affairs refused to fund their travel. They ended up in a Women's Shelter in Akwesasne and they're still there.

On the weekend of January 7th and 8th, 2006, there were three deaths in the community. One young man died of a heart attacked due to stress. Two were shackled in a building that did not meet the most minimal safety standards. The building caught fire and they burnt to death. Both the toxic water and this fire are due to criminal negligence by the colonial government.

We have learned that DeBeers has a deplorable history of mistreating the indigenous people in Africa. Their mining operations have left the earth scarred and the environment irretrievably damaged. The original peoples were removed. Now that the area has been abandoned, they are unable to use it. Currently they are extending their operations to the Kalahari deserts. They removed the Bush Men tortured and confined them to small reserves, when a large territory is needed to survive under those conditions. They stopped them from hunting, gathering and seeking water. Many have died as a result. We are certain that if people knew about this they would be alarmed. This kind of resource theft and human rights abuse is not acceptable in Canada or anywhere else. Yet the Canadian and Ontario governments seem to be facilitating the De Beers operation against the people of Kashechewan.

DeBeers has claimed the Cree's diamonds and promised to give Canada and Ontario royalties. This has placed Canada and Ontario in a position of conflict of interest because both have fiduciary obligations to the Indigenous peoples. According to Sections 109 and 132 of the British North America Act 1867, the constitution of Canada, the resources are not theirs to give away. The document known as Treaty 9 is invalid. It violates the constitution and international law. Canada does not have a legal treaty with the owners, the Cree People, who are indigenous to the land.

No one can give what they do not have. Canada and Ontario have no legal right to the resources belonging to the people of Kashechewan. When the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources went to Europe to give DeBeers permission, he had nothing to give.

DeBeers plans to completely destroy their environment. DeBeers has seemingly limitless financial and political resources. They have already started an operation a few miles north of Kashechewan at the sister community of Attawapiskat. In order to facilitate the exploitation of diamonds and other resources, belonging to the people of Kashechewan, they plan to built a huge open mine pit larger than the size of Toronto. Accommodations have already been built near Kashechewan with good pure water, though Indian Affairs refuses to provide this necessity to the Crees. Roads, air strips, rock waste dumps, treatment plants, fields for dewatering and mine water are in the works. Obviously this operation and the toxins it will produce will displace the Crees or kill them.

DeBeers exploitation of the people of Kashechewan is doubly reprehensible. First, it involves illegal exploitation of indigenous people. Second, it is for purposes of providing materials to make weapons in this age when war has become illegal.

This is our formal notification that you are to cease and desist all of your illegal operations on the territory of the Crees of Kashechewan

Attached is a report entitled "Cold as Ice". We assure you that we take the human rights abuses you are engaged in very seriously.

By assuming authority over Canada, the Queen has incurred fiduciary obligations to the indigenous inhabitants of Kashechewan. We call on the Queen to preserve her honor and assert her authority to protect the laws of the Crees of Kashechewan.

Onen kiwahi

Kahentinetha /s/__________________________

Katenies /s/ _____________________________

Katsitsaionhne /s/ _________________________

President, De Beers Diamond Mines, Suite 400, 65 Overlea Blvd. Toronto, Ont. M4H 1P1, linda.dorrington@ca.debeersgroup.com

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, %The Privy Council, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA, UK press@royalcollection.org.uk;

Prime Minister of Canada, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada pm@pm.gc.ca

Her Excellency Mme. Jean, Governor General of Canada, Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Canada info@gg.ca

Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, Legislative Bldg., Queen's park, Toronto, Ont. M7A 1A1 dalton.mcginty@premier.gov.on.ca

The Honorable Minister of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., Ottawa K1A 0H4

Stephen Harper, Progressive Party of Canada, Ottawa, Canada harper.s@parl.gc.ca

Jack Layton, New Democratic Party of Canada, 279 Laurier Ave., W., Ottawa Canada K1P 5J9 layton.j@parl.gc.ca

Bloc Quebecois Party, Ottawa, Canada Duceppe.g@parl.gc.ca

UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights, UN Plaza, S.2914, New York 10017

Rudolpho Stavenhagen, International Commission for Human Rights, Box 16, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland

Coalition Criminal Court, %WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Fl., New York 10017

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1200 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0R2

Bono, DATA, 1400 Eye St., N.W., Suite 1125, Washington DC 20005

Gail Beggs, Aboriginal Affairs, 4th Fl. 720, Bay St., Toronto Ont. M5G 2K1

Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada, 301 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0J1 613-995-4330

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A6 onbox@psepc.gc.ca

Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, Jeanne Mance Building, Tunney's Pasture, Postal Locator 1921A, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9 fnihb-dgspni@hc-sc.gc.ca

Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of National Defence, Major Gen. George R. Pearkes Bldg., 101 Col. By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0K2 graham.b@gc.ca

U.S. President George Bush, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC 20500 president@whitehouse.gov

International Peace Academy, UN Plaza, New York, NY

Royal Canadian Military Institute, 426 University Ave., Toronto ON M5G 1S9 president@rcmi.org
Canadian High Commission Trade Office in Johannesburg, South Africa jobrg@international.gc.ca

cc. All Media, Pope Benedictum XVI, St. Peter's Sq., Vatican City, Rome Italy; Canadian Center for Foreign Policy Development, info.ccfpd@dfait/maeci.gc.ca (National Forum on Africa);

'COLD AS ICE':

De Beers Diamond Mines does not show its ugly face

to Kashechewan Cree

of James Bay in Northern Ontario Canada

Report By

Orakwa Indigenous Enterprises

January 2006

MNN Mohawk Nation News had sent out two communiqués on Kashechewan water crisis. One described the crisis of E-coli infested water that had infected James Bay community. Half of the 2,000 people were evacuated to Canadian cities far and wide in the province of Ontario. The people were placed in hotels and given vouchers. The other story was about one family who had been evacuated to Sault Ste. Marie and wanted to go home. Indian Affairs refused to fund their travel. They ended up in Akwesasne at the Women's Shelter. These two stories are reproduced in this report. The real story is about exploitation of this community by De Beers Diamond Mines. This report covers the failed attempt by three Mohawks on behalf of Orakwa Indigenous Enterprises to visit the Kashechewan community in northern Ontario in early January 2006. They wanted to meet the people and get the facts of their victimization by De Beers with the assistance of Indian Affairs Canada and the government of the province of Ontario.

Orakwa, P.O. Box 991, Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory

(Quebec, Canada) J0L 1B0 kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

Table of Contents

Introduction, 3
PLAN B - REMOVE AND DISPERSE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE - the Keshachewan Experiment. 3

3. More to this story than meets the eye, 6

4. MNN: LUST FOR DIAMONDS: INDIAN AFFAIRS AND DE BEERS

"SCROOGE" KASHECHEWAN, 6

5. Leave for Toronto, 9

6. Akwesasne: Trouble at the US-Canada border crossing, 9

7. Constitutional jurisdiction question, 10

8. Planning around the kitchen table, 10

9. Kay, our colleague, 10

10. African connection: Kalahari Bush Men

11. Kirkland Capital of Toronto, 12

12. Kirkland Capital Website, 13

13. Background: Kashechewan situation, 15

14. Zane Bell, 15

15. Observation of John P., 18

16. Chief Leo Friday, 18

17. TREATY 9, 1905, 19

18. Arrival in Timmins, 20

19. Wondering about Rebecca, 21

20. WBAI Radio New York City

21. Rebecca arrives in Timmins, 22

22. What is R.C.M.I.? 23

23. Rebecca blocks the ice road, 24

24. Green Peace and the flooding, 24

25. In the dungeon, 25

26. Meeting with the Governor General of Canada, 25

27. Conclusion, 25

1. INTRODUCTION

My brother, Frank Taiotekane Horn, a lawyer practicing in Cornwall Ontario, called me frantically describing what was happening in Kashechewan. He had gone there a few times with the traveling court to represent Cree defendants as a lawyer. He gave me several phone numbers of contacts up there. I wrote the following story on October 30th, 2005.

2. PLAN B - REMOVE AND DISPERSE

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE - the Keshachewan Experiment

MNN. Oct. 30, 2005. Kashechewan, a remote northern Ontario Cree community of almost 2000 people has become an international scandal over reports of contaminated water. It's called a "fly-in" community because there is no road in. One thousand people have been evacuated because of sicknesses created by contaminated water.

Ten years ago Indian Affairs designed a water treatment system where Hollow Creek joins the Albany River which drains into James Bay. James Bay is the southern part of Hudson's Bay. This is where Kashechewan is located. The two are fresh water rivers flowing into the salt water bay. Fort Albany is a little way up the Albany River.

As they have done in so many other communities, Indian Affairs forgot about little details like health, safety and clean water. The Indian Affairs engineer built the water plant 135 meters downstream from a sewage lagoon. It flows right past the water intake pipe and sewage goes into the drinking water. He forgot about the tide that comes in and backs up the sewage into the drinking water. As a result the water pipe delivers deadly E-coli right into everybody's kitchen tap.

Health Canada's solution? Based on their expertise and experience, they told the people to just put more and more chlorine in the water, boil it and then drink it. Almost all have come down with severe skin infections and unknown sicknesses. Was this one of their weird twisted experiments, or what? You don't need to be an Einstein to know what happened. It's a disaster!

Last year Indian Affairs, which has never hesitated to throw good money after bad, paid $500,000 for an upgrade. But they forgot to move the intake pipe! In the last six months Indians Affairs has sent in $250,000 worth of bottled water. To try to fix the system the people tied a rope and a wood plank to hold the water plant together.

Lately they have been going to the Albany River and lugging back buckets of water to drink. Even this water is contaminated.

The young people want to revive the ancient custom of taking drinking water upstream before the sewage. They want to move further inland to higher ground. Kashechewan is built on a flood plain with a dike all the way around the community to stop the floods that come with the tides. It was Indian Affairs' idea that Indians should spend the whole year at a seasonal camp on a flood plain. I wonder if they used the engineers that built New Orleans as consultants! The older people want to stay because they've become attached to the location.

Canada's been sending aid all over the world. Now it's revealed that the water in 70% of Indian communities is a health risk. It would cost Indian Affairs $1.4 billion to fix all their mistakes. Has Indian Affairs ever sued an engineering firm for incompetence? Or is this Plan B of the old genocide project? Dying race and all that! Tsk! Tsk! Or maybe it's just a question of giving contracts to political hacks to pay off a few seedy debts, eh! Everybody is in the habit of blaming the "Injuns" for draining the public purse anyway. The whole mess is pretty damn shocking!!

"Kopy Kat Kanada". Indian Affairs sent in the army and put up some tents. (I'm sure they'd rather go up there than to the Middle East.) In the meantime, Ontario shuffled 1000 to Cochrane, Sudbury and parts unknown. The elders are very upset about letting them leave as they may never come back. They're getting residential school flashbacks. Everyone is haunted by horror stories about our youth adrift in the south. Indian Affairs works constantly at dissolving distinct Indigenous communities.

They think they can shove us into a non-native community and we can live like everybody else. This relocation strategy will dissolve the community. Relocation has been a disaster every time it's been tried. Chief, council and everyone are trying to keep the community together. They feel it's urgent to do something now.

Kashechewan is inundated with media. Almost everyone is getting cameras, microphones and reporters in their faces. It's the news of the moment. They'll all leave and no one will hear about Kashechewan again.

It's another experiment. Move the Indians away from their original constitutional territory onto another Indigenous nation's land. This separates them from their spiritual ties. Skylnick in her book "A Poison Stronger than Love" proved removals are a big "make work" project for Indian Affairs, who always say, "We'll make the decisions for them". The 1960's experiment on relocating Indians all had to be reversed in the end. Some were relocated to Elliot Lake, the Menominees were terminated, the Innu, were relocated to Davis Inlet. The common thread is that by such removals they lost their land and had to be reintegrated later. Indian Affairs never lets the people decide. They don't intend to do what's decent and good for the Indians.

Here's another slant. What's really going on here?

The North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA was the crowning glory of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his negotiator, Simon Riesman. They gave away Canadian water to the U.S.

In NAFTA Canada cannot withhold its water from the United States. Americans are depleting their fresh water resources and are demanding the right to get Canadian water. One idea was to divert all the rivers that flow into James Bay into the Great Lakes. Then send it to the Midwestern U.S. to irrigate land Americans have turned into a parched "dust bowl".

Another plan was to build a dike separating James Bay and Hudson's Bay. Then James Bay would be drained into the Hudson's Bay. This would be filled up with fresh water from the rivers that flow north from the Canadian Shield. A huge reservoir would cover the whole area. This would be rerouted south to the U.S., or pumped into the Great Lakes and piped out.

The main U.S. concern is that the Mississippi is no longer viable. The population in California is over 40 million and it's dry. They desperately need water. Canada has the most, fresh water in the world. The U.S. wants it. The Indians are in the way.

To carry out this plan, all Indian communities on Hudson's Bay and James Bay will have to be removed before the area is flooded. The Indians are basically in the way. They live on the mouths of all the rivers draining into James Bay. They want the northern indigenous communities to pay for the U.S. environmental catastrophe.

On top of all this, the U.S. is going to get Canada to build the structure which has been designed to make sure the U.S. gets all the benefits. In fact, they already probably have signed documents making it look like the Indians consented. What they've forgotten is Sections 109 and 132 of the Canadian Constitution, stipulates, that the Indians have prior interests that supercede that of Canada and its provinces. They have to deal with us first. Hee haw!

There are 100 reserves that they say have contaminated waters. The Indians will all have to be removed. This experiment with the Kashechewan community is only the beginning.

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

I asked for comments and assistance and gave the following telephone numbers for people who wanted to corroborate my communiqué: John Wyne - 705-275-4377; Leo Friday - 705-275-4664; Norman Wesley - 705-275-4109, 705-275-4519; Chief - 750-275-4440. "Zane Bell" - 705-286-6118 email zany60@hotmail.com; Ellis Kirkland - www.kirklandcapital.com

3. More to this story than meets the eye

In the meantime, Zane Bell had told Rebecca Friday, the vice-chief of Kashechewan, to call me. She had not seen the story that I had sent out as Zane had not sent it to her.

After talking with her about how bad the situation was and that there was no help in sight, I wrote another story on December 23rd 2005. I read it to her over the phone and then sent it out.

4. LUST FOR DIAMONDS: INDIAN AFFAIRS AND DE BEERS

"SCROOGE" KASHECHEWAN

MNN. Dec. 23, 2005. "Quit 'Scrooging' them around!" This is what Indian Affairs and De Beers are doing to members of the Cree Nation of Kashechewan. Remember that isolated northern Ontario community on James Bay? That's where the engineering geniuses at Indian Affairs designed and built a multi-million dollar water treatment plant that spewed filth and sewage into tap waters for nine years, starting almost from the day it was built. "Just put more chlorine in it and boil it", said Health Canada, when the people said they wanted clean water. They've been sick and getting sicker.

In early November 1,000 people, that's 50% of the community, were evacuated to faraway cities like Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Peterborough, Timmins, Cochrane, Sudbury and Cornwall to save their lives. Since then they have been put up in hotels and given vouchers for necessities, but little cash. This has lead to lonesomeness and other desperate situations. Families have been broken up. They don't have money to use phones to keep in touch with each other.

About a week ago, Indian Affairs decided to move a family of six, the husband and wife and four children ages 14, 13, 12 and 8, from Sault Ste. Marie to the Akwesasne Women's Crisis Shelter near Cornwall.

Apparently the couple went drinking one time. Who wouldn't? The Children's Aid Society got involved. Without consulting them, they spirited them to Cornwall. No rooms at any inns were found there because of Christmas bookings. They were taken to the crisis center. "There were high fences and high tech gates. It was like a prison with guards. Our people do have to get help for their problems. They were not told anything", said the vice-chief of Kashechewan. "We were initially told that Cornwall could take 1,000 people. But there wasn't even room for one family".

The family was not told where they were being taken. They were as good as kidnapped except there were no black hoods put over their heads. They were never told where they would end up.

The family can't go home. Their trailer has been gutted and is getting fixed. The water is still no good. It has to be boiled. In the infamous Walkerton water crisis, all the pipes were replaced. In Kashechewan they are only going to sanitize them. They say the water is frozen and can't be drained. So how are they going to sanitize them? This situation gets worse. Indian Affairs won't tell the people anything. The water is okay only for bathing and laundry if you're not fussy about your whites. Ontario Water Works from Red Lake Ontario are up there maintaining and monitoring the water treatment manually. They have to stay there so nothing breaks down.

Indian Affairs won't fix it because they say funding was accidentally misused. If the community gives it back, the plant will be fixed. It's impossible. There's no economy up there. There are no jobs and no income. How can they pay back $120,000? For this they are going to poison and kill everybody! Indian Affairs keeps cutting their budget all the time. No one has made Indian Affairs accountable for their miserable engineering job. For three years they have been asking Indian Affairs for funds to give special training to the native people to be certified to run the plant. No way! This would cut out Indian Affairs jobs! Guess what? The request has never been approved.

The family in Akwesasne would like to go Sudbury to meet up with other members of their family. Indian Affairs refuses because of the crisis they are in. The crisis who is in, the family or Indian Affairs? When you feel so powerless, what are you going to do? Indian Affairs made a unilateral decision on their behavior. Said the vice-chief, "You guys, you think you can do this to my people? If you play dirty, we'll play dirty too. Your treatment is totally inhuman and we're going to tell everybody about it".

Two mysterious strangers, a man and a woman, strode onto the scene. No one knows how they got there or who paid their way. When the people asked what they were up to, they said they were working behind the scenes to help them. The DART team did get a water purifier up there to purify and bottle water from the river. The woman made up a binder outlining their dire situation to get the help they needed. She got Band Council Resolutions to send to government ministers and to the Minister of Defense Bill Graham. The Canadian public was told that everything was hunky dory. But no one responded to their requests. So they phoned and were told they never got the binders.

For three years Indian Affairs was working on an environmental assessment of the area. They consulted the people a few times for half a day with not more than 10 to 15 people. Indian Affairs approved the findings. They gave DeBeers Diamond Mine the right go ahead and start mining. The people did not understand the report and what DeBeers' interest was. Indian Affairs did not translate the complicated material into Cree syllabic. It is a conflict of interest for Indian Affairs whose fiduciary duty is to protect the people and at the same time try to do business off their backs. The Province of Ontario and the federal government are going to get a portion of the royalties from the mine. The Indians, who own the land, get nothing. They may end up losing their lives because their environment has been damaged so badly.

These two strangers and some community members are on a negotiation team. Guess whose funding this negotiation team? DeBeers! DeBeers gave the team $114,000 to negotiate with them! What do you think of that? The woman attends meetings and speaks on behalf of the Kashechewan people without any people from the community present.

This woman is setting up a meeting in Toronto between the Kashechewan people, DeBeers and Indian Affairs. She even found a lawyer for them from Calgary, Jim HopeRoss. Is this starting to make sense? How do things look when you connect the dots? Who is helping the people of Kashechewan? They don't have money. Indian Affairs refuses to help these people. They throw them at the mercy of De Beers who pays for the negotiations which is attended by Indian Affairs.

She did make a budget for the vice chief to visit the people who had been deported to the various cities. She got $50,000 to do this.

She also got Jim HopeRoss from Calgary as a lawyer for them. He does aboriginal land claims, oil fields and other resource fights for people from those areas. He told them they had a "win-win" case because they had not been told what Indian Affairs had done before DeBeers arrived on the scene and made their plans with them. Perhaps they should consult the remaining Kalahari Bushmen in Africa as to the tactics DeBeers used to remove them off their lands in order to mine for diamonds - murder, starvation, loss of hunting and gathering rights and deprivation of water, to name a few.

This negotiation meeting at the Delta Hotel on January 3, 2006, at 9:00 am is of great public interest. Three parties are involved. Who do the diamonds belong to? Are they a common gift to humanity, or are they private property? Can they be claimed by De Beers, a private company? By Canada, a colonial state? Or by the people of Kashechewan, the original occupants of the territory who never surrendered their land?

What do you think? Isn't this an important public question? Remember that DeBeers supplies the U.S. military through their South African mines 60% of the diamonds for their lethal armaments such as bunker buster bombs and diamond dust in the metal to make the tanks shatter proof. Diamond mining contaminates the water table because they water blast the soil to erode it. The water contains chemicals, salts and other environmental hazards. The mind goes down thousands of feet. One in Africa goes 4 miles deep.

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

I gave the contact number, Kashechewan 705-275-1043.

Rebecca invited me to go to the forthcoming negotiation meeting in Toronto on January 3rd, 2006. I told her that I could not go alone. We Mohawks traditionally attend meetings as a threesome so that each would give their own insights in the debriefing afterwards. We agreed that we would join them as observers.

5. Leave for Toronto

On Tuesday January 3rd Aroniakon, Katenies and I were supposed to drive to Toronto to stay with Kay Murphy and join the Crees at 7:00 am the next morning. They were to meet with DeBeers Diamonds, Indian Affairs, Ellis Kirkland, Zane Bell and a lawyers invited by Ellis to negotiate. (We were concerned about the lawyer. Our experience is that the lawyer would work for a percentage of the final settlement, usually around 30%.)

6. Akwesasne: Trouble at the US-Canada border crossing

Aroniakon arrived at my house in Kahnawake on Tuesday morning. We had not heard from Rebecca. Aroniakon, without hesitation, said, "Let's go anyway". Within a few minutes, we jumped into my car and left for Akwesasne. We went by Highway 138, which is the back road that leads to the US-Canada border crossing at Dundee near Huntington Quebec.

About 2:00 pm we arrived at Dundee crossing. The female U.S. customs officer on duty knew me from my five years of crossing daily to go to work at the Akwesasne casino. Said the female customs officer, "Where y'all going?' We said to Akwesasne. She said, "Please pull over". We underwent a thorough one-hour inspection of ourselves and our vehicle. After filling out forms and being asked some stupid questions, Aroniakon asked why we were being scrutinized. She said, "It's a random inspection". We accepted that. Finally, we were given back our car and keys and went on our way. We were only about 10 minutes from Katenies's house.

"Was that a routine check, or what?" I asked Aroniakon as we drove into. Akwesasne. This Mohawk community is right on the Canada-US border at the intersection of New York State, Ontario and Quebec. It's a jurisdictional nightmare. Katenies lives in the Quebec portion. But you have to go through New York State to get to her place.

We finally pulled up to Katenies's house. She had visitors. They were all talking about the Akwesasne situation, commenting on various issues, such as the border crossing harassment of Mohawks. They cross daily from one part of their community to the other, sometimes ten times a day. We had just gone through this harassment ourselves.

10. Constitutional jurisdiction question

Aroniakon, Katenies, I, and others had just spent a year on the "constitutional jurisdiction" issue. We successfully raised the question of whether New York State had gotten jurisdiction over our lands since we never gave it to them. So how could they deal with the New York State Tribal council they had set up? Their own entity was ready to sign a deal with them to give away our 9 million acres of land in exchange for a casino. Perplexing, isn't it?

As a result of our work, we had toppled four of the fraudulent land claims, St. Regis Akwesasne, Onondaga, Oneida and Cayuga. New York State and their tribal government in Akwesasne are trying again to resurrect their ploys to settle these phony New York State claims to our lands and to build the casino for the tribal council.

11. Planning around the kitchen table

We sat around Katenies's kitchen-dining room in St. Regis Village on the territory. We were wondering what to do. Should Angus and I go home or should we go ahead? Finally Rebecca Friday called me on my cell phone. She told us she had cancelled the meeting in Toronto that they were not going down there.

What to do. What to do. She asked us if we could come to Kashechewan? We all said, "Yes". She would have Air Canada plane tickets at Toronto airport for the next morning at 8:40 am. to fly to Timmins. From there we would catch a CreeBec flight to Kashechewan.

Katenies quickly rummaged around her house for heavy duty winter clothes, long johns, extra socks, hats, gloves and coats. We picked up some money to help defray gas, parking and other costs from one of our supporters on the territory. We still needed a few things like underwear and socks. We were only supposed to be away one day in Toronto. So we planned to cross the bridge from the New York State portion of Akwesasne over to the Canadian city of Cornwall and visit the Wal Mart there. From there we could catch the Trans Canada highway "401" to Toronto. It was a 5 hour drive.

9. Kay, our colleague

Rebecca had warned us it was warm in Kashechewan, only 40 below 0. We arrived in Toronto at 9:30 pm. We actually made good time. We stayed with an old friend, Kay Murphy. She was a longtime volunteer in the office of the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with the Native People CASNP for over 20 years. Her small apartment has always been open to Indians. It's in a high rise in the center of Toronto.

About two weeks earlier she had come with me and my three year old granddaughter to meet Ellis Kirkland of Kirkland Capital. Ellis had shown up in Kashechewan last August 2005 to "help" the people. She worked closely with Zane Bell, an environmental biologist, who had worked previously at Indian Affairs. He had shown up in Kashechewan about one and half years ago as a volunteer??

10. African connection: Kalahari Bush Men

On the drive to Toronto the three of us, me, Angus and Katenies, talked about what we knew about Kashechewan and DeBeers. I had found a book expose on them on the internet which revealed a lot of hanky panky on the part of De Beers in Africa.

On the internet site www.khoisan.org I found out more about DeBeers and their dealings with the Kalahari Bushmen in South Africa. To say the least I found them treacherous and vicious with these people. They had them removed onto reserves and then had them, deprived of hunting and gathering rights and water. So they started to die off. There had been an October 2003 ruling. The constitutional court ruled that the Nama People (Richtersvelders) have a right to ownership of their land and its minerals, despite the fact that they have never been given title deeds and the government had always assumed that they had no rights to it. They were affected when diamonds were discovered there. Botswana and DeBeers were worried. "The ruling that Indigenous People who own land under their own unwritten law have the right to have this upheld inspite of other legal systems which are subsequently imposed by the state had interesting implications for Botswana. If the South African ruling is applied then the Bushmen own their ancestral land as well as the mineral rights underneath their territory."

This can be looked up - Case CCT 19/03 Alexor Ltd. (1st Appellant) and the government of South Africa (2nd Appelland) vs. the Richtersvelder community and others.

On January 1, 2006 I had sent out an MNN Mohawk Nation News communiqué which apparently went all over the world which I titled "Lust for Diamonds. Indian Affairs and De Beers "Scrooge" Kashechewan. I received an email from AfricaNode to re-send it to them, which I did. Then I asked them,

"Please tell me more about the tactics of De Beers. The Cree People of Kashechewan are having a meeting with them and the Canadian governments on January 3 in Toronto. We need to be prepared. What do you think De Beers and the government are going to do? Also, a woman has come on the scene suddenly. She is saying she advocates for them. We are not sure who this person is. Has this happened with other Indigenous people where De Beers is trying to take over the land for mining? We would appreciate any help you can give us about how these big multi national corporations overcome Indigenous people in other parts of the world. Thank you".

Kahentinetha

Then on January 2nd, Ntailan Lolkoki sent me another email, "... and maybe you can have a look on www.khoisanpeoples.org - for similarities.

DEAR TO ALL

THE SAN PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH DE BEERS.DE BEERS MAKES MILLIONS OF RANDS HERE IN RSA,BUT WE AS SOUTH AFRICANS DO NOT.THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD MUST NEVER ALLOWED DE BEERS IN THIER COUNTRIES,BECAUSE LOOK AT HOW THEY EXPLOITED OUR COUNTRY(RSA).HERE RSA WE ARE SO USED TO SELL -OUTS,THATS WHY WE TRY ESTABLISH A TRADITIONAL IN EVERY PROVINCE IN THIS COUNTRY.IN SUCH MANNER THERE WILL BE A BOND BETWEEN FELLOW COUNTRY MEN.WE FEEL THAT YOU MUST BE AWARE OF THE DE BEERS.

DE BEERS DID A VERY BAD THING AND TODAY WE HAVE NOTHING.ON EVERY SITE WHERE THERE WERE MINES WITH VALUABLE MINERALS THEY SOLLED IT.THATS WHY WE URGE YOU TO BOICOT DE BEERS.WE FULLY SUPPORT THESAN PEOPLE OF BOTSWANA.

KEEP ON WITH THE GOOD WORK

ECOTERRA Intl.
Nairobi Node

This certainly gave us food for thought and a lot to worry about.

De Beers' plans for Kashechewan diamonds

DeBeers plans to have at Kashechewan an open mine pit larger than the size of Toronto, plus clinics, change house, shops, offices, accommodations unit (which has already been build near Kashechewan with good pure water), interconnecting access, haul roads, air strips, security, freight areas, ore process plant, associated workshops, rock waste dumps, primary crushers, ramps, treatment plants, thickening plant, earth moving vehicle workshops, weather road, well field for pit dewatering and mine water.

DeBeers diamonds are used for industrial and military use to overthrow legitimate governments. They are needed for airplane engines, torpedoes, warheads, tanks, artillery, weapons of war of all kinds, bearings for radar and electronics or war, stabilizers, gyroscopes, guidance systems for subs and planes, converting civilian industries into war machines. De Beer controls the world supply of diamonds. In the 1940's the US needed 6.5 million carats of diamonds. De Beers refused to sell it to them. They had members on the UK War Production Board. De Beers was selling diamonds to both sides, to Hitler and the allies.

Kimberly Process.

11. Kirkland Capital of Toronto

Kirkland Capital seems to be a home office company in ritzy Rosedale in Toronto headed by Ellis Danjier Galea Kirkland. On her extensive and fancy website she purports to be an advisor in establishing international government development strategies, free trade policies and negotiations, international finance, commerce and constitutions, management, trade and technology.

Ellis seems to have everything but modesty. She is originally from Malta, attended schools here and at Harvard, which she was quick to tell me. I went to Harvard too for a semester on Early Childhood Education, which she probably wouldn't care to know.

My granddaughter and I went to Toronto on November 24th 2005 to visit my friend Kay. The following morning I phoned Zane Bell, who lives in Peterborough, and tried to set up a meeting with him. Thirty seconds after we hung up the phone, Ellis Kirkland called and asked me out for lunch, "I'll come and pick you up". She never showed and she never called. Later that day at 4:30 she called again and said she would pick us up at 5:30 and take us out for dinner at the Mandarin. At 6:00 we put on our coats and left. After had finished our dinner, she showed up at 7:30.

She never asked me anything about myself. She's dark, looks Italian. Malta is a small island off Sicily. Malta which has been involved in banking and shady money deals since the time of the crusades. She did most of the talking about herself and never answered any of our questions. She then stunned us when she said, "I've been working for a while on a project with elder Andrew Maracle".

Kay and I were stunned. Kay said, "We know Andrew very well. How old was this Andrew Maracle you've been working with? Is he from Tyendinaga?" (This is another Mohawk community near Belleville and Andrew Maracle was a good friend of both Kay and I).

Ellis answered, "He was young".

Kay said, "Andrew Maracle died about ten years ago at the age of 84!"

Ellis suddenly changed the subject and refused to answer any questions about her involvement with this dead man. She did say that she had been very sick and that Indian medicines had cured her. This is why she wants to help the Indians. She did not tell us what the sickness was.

12. Kirkland Capital Website

On her website there are no pictures or biographies of those she supposedly works with on her extensive global experience in building cities and governmental infrastructures. She was a NAFTA North American Free Trade National co-ordinator and representative under 'architecture and a co-signer on June 25, 1994. She was on the Tri-national committee on architecture for NAFTA, for who? Was it for me and you? She was on the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. She was on the Council of Ontario Association of Architects from 91 to 96 and president from 93 to 94. Her license is #4-185.

On her website there are dozens of pictures of her numerous certificates of memberships and accreditations to such organizations as the US National Council of Architectural Registration Board. She was on the Nevada State Board of Architecture of Interior Design and Residential Design, June 26, 1997.

Let's say at this point, my skepticism about her was being confirmed. Her website under "think tank" has 726 pictures of the Kashechewan community. On January 2nd I picked up the phone at my home and called Ellis Kirkland in Toronto. It rang once and she answered it.

"It's Kahentinetha Horn here. May I ask you some questions?"

She said, "Of course".

First she apologized about the discomfort she created at that meeting on November 25th in Toronto. "I was tired and had been in some intense meetings".

I calmly asked her about her part in the NAFTA agreement, which, "As you know, the Indians in the Western Hemisphere oppose".

"Oh, I was only on the architecture negotiations. Americans have huge firms and they overwhelm us. Now we can bid on American work on an equal basis, have access to their markets and monitor their behavior in Canada". She confirmed she knew that it was detrimental to the Indians and that there had been protests over it. As she always does when the going gets tough, she quickly changed the subject and did not answer any more questions. I did not tell her that we were invited to sit in on the meeting with Kashechewan in Toronto on January 3rd. She had set it up with De Beers, Indian Affairs and a lawyer, Jim RossHope of Calgary, she was bringing in.

"Who is advocating for the Crees?" I asked.

"I am", she said. Then I asked how much she knew of the constitutional jurisdiction question. Nothing! So how could she negotiate on their behalf? She also mentioned that she heard that the Mohawks had aboriginal title to the lands from the East Coast to West Coast of Canada. She has no legal training and the people of Kashechewan have not been given access to any lawyers. They have no internet access. No cell phone. The majority don't speak English or French.

I verified that the Kaienereh'ko:wa, Great Law of Peace, our constitution, covered all of Turtle Island. I gave her a brief explanation about it. "We have a different way of relating to the settlers", I told her.

"Yes", she said, "I am well aware of the Mohawks." It sounded negative to me. It seemed like Ellis didn't want to hear anymore or her mind was somewhere else. Suddenly she said, "I have to go now because I have a meeting in half an hour. I have to read something before that". Then she excused herself and hung up the phone.

13. Background: Kashechewan situation

The project started 20 years ago. Diamonds had been discovered. Canada gave the claim to the diamonds to DeBeers. It wasn't theirs to give. They did not have a legal treaty with these owners, the Cree Nation who are indigenous to the land. Five years ago the Minister of Natural Resources Canada went to Europe to give permission to DeBeers to start the development program to begin the mining. The first problem was that Indians lived on this land. From De Beer's experience with the Kalahari Bushmen, they decided to find a way to remove the Indigenous People. They needed the help of those evil monsters, Indian Affairs. The royalties from the diamond mines go to Indian Affairs and to the Ontario government, none to the Indians.

14. Zane Bell

DeBeers had a contact in Canada, Ellis Kirkland and Zane Bell. Zane had worked for Indian Affairs. He was an 'environmental biologist', who looked at rocks with a member of Kashechewan. He is tall, blue eyed with a pony tail of very light hair. He says he's part Indian - Mohawk, Penobscot, MicMac, and some other nation. His wife is also researching her Indian background, which is Ojibway, and several other nations. Quite a mixture, but he still acts like a white man. When I talked to Rebecca Friday of Kashechewan, I said to her, "Deep in your mind and heart, is this man an Indian?"

She replied, "He's a white man".

Zane worked for Indian Affairs for a year and a half and suddenly resigned and went to work for Ellis. We were thinking, "Somehow someone got a "finder's fee" to deliver the Crees to DeBeers. Could it be Ellis or Zane?" A finder's fee is money given to someone in the community like Jim Ransom or Lorraine White of Akwesasne to help the outside interests or corporation's project to come into existence on the territory. The finder's fee-er's job is to make it happen. So we were wondering, "Who is the "point man" here for De Beers?" The secret finder's fee is usually given to a band chief or band manager or someone who has authority or influence in the community and is in a position to sell the people out. We weren't sure who it was, but we kept our eyes open.

Zane knows the area because he's been going to Kashechewan as a volunteer for a year and half! Hey! This costs money! How can he volunteer to go up there? It's isolated. There is no road. The only way to get there is to fly or drive on the ice roads in the winter. Airfare costs $400 from Toronto to Timmins return and $900 from Timmins to Kashechewan return. He doesn't pay for this. "Who does?" we wondered.

We got curious about Zane. After I sent out that article "Lust for Diamonds", on December 28, 2005, he sent the following email.

"Good article: It should stir up some response. I appreciate your talking to Rebecca, you did get her a little confused but she is learning.

"You are quite right about Indian Affairs. Doug Forbes, the previous Regional Director General of Ontario was the main person sent out to destroy the relationship of the three Cree communities by directing all the negotiating funds only to Attawapiskat (north of Kashechewan) and the other
communities got no funding. The community had to get money from De Beers
just to talk to De Beers. Indian Affairs has squeezed the community over the last 5 years allowing them to go into debt and making sure they did not have funds
to pay the staff. So the band administrator spent money for other things on
staff pay roll.

"Indian Affairs allows the hiring of co-managers, but makes sure they can't do the job (such as Nabil B.) (As a general principle, it seems the less people do the more they get paid when they work for the Canadian governments). Financial reports are never submitted on time so the spiral continues so they are over 14 million in debt.

"This is the reason I left Indian Affairs after 1.5 years to assist them. (The question still is, who paid?)

They have absolutely no support system. Even the Muskegowuk Tribal Council
which replaced the local Indian Affairs Moosonee Field office and the NAN Nishinabi Aski Tribal Council do not help the local communities. They drain funding from the bands to support themselves and take directions from Indian Affairs who mostly funds the two tribal councils.

(On the plane from Timmons to Toronto Katenies picked up some magazines such as Wawatay News. Almost every other page had a smiling picture of Stan Beardy, the point man on this Council for Indian Affairs. It was getting annoying to keep looking at this phony smiling Jack). Back to Zane's email.

"This has led the council of Kashechewan to rely on an Iranian consultant (Nabil) to help them. He has done some stuff that I will not say in paper, good or
bad?

"So what is left for the community to do?

"I have some other stuff you might want to hear. Hope you had a nice holiday

Wabiska Mukwa

I left him five messages to call me and he never did. Then shortly after the first email, another arrived.

"By the way, the $114,000 was the funding De Beers started to pay for the
community based negotiation team consisting of Gary Wesley and 8 other
community members, the ex-Chief Andrew Reuben, the current Deputy Chiefs
elder brother and myself as a volunteer. That negotiation team disbanded due to mishandling of the money by the community members. The negotiation team was replaced in May. The Chief and Council asked me to help them. So I introduced them to Ellis Kirkland as she knows how to deal with companies like De Beer's. (How's that?)

"The information on De Beers and the Bushmen I introduced to the
community at a community meeting in April and in May. The articles are all
over Kashechewan. The people can't assimilate this information as yet. But it's in their minds.

"De Beers refused to advance anymore money to the Band negotiation team until
Ellis forced them to do so due to her ability to make press against them.

"De Beer's is now partially owned by the Botswana Government. They came to
Canada knowing that Canada already put the natives in concentration camps
and they think they can control the natives like they did in Africa.

"Kashechewan controls the access to northern Ontario.

"Indian Affairs split the reserve into two bands on one reserve in the 50's when they where looking for the resources in the north, including the big water issue.

"When the De Beer's thing all started, although they have been in the north
for over 20 years, the president of De Beer's had a meeting in England with
the Minister for Natural Resources Canada and the next week NRCAN was the
lead agency for the federal CEAA process.

"NRCAN was pushing speed and dealing with Attawapiskat only.

"It was I and my associate Cheyanne Loan a Cree from Quebec that forced the
federal regulators to deal with the other communities. But that is about
all we could accomplish to help the bands deal with the Feds and De Beers.

"It slowed down the activities so far but the province never negotiated with
the bands and the province gave away the land over 45 square miles to De
Beers. No compensation to the communities except Attawapiskat who received
about 20 million which is one day's profit of the mine and the mine will run
for over 20 years on the first strike. There are over 20 other potential
diamond producing zones De Beers has located and claimed.

Wabiska Mukwa

On the same day I sent the following email.

"So the negotiation team has to be to the liking of De Beers or they won't talk to them? Colonialism is alive and well.

"Just what did Ellis do to persuade DeBeers to fork over the funds? Did she have connections or did she work for them sometime in the past? That would be the only way she could have some persuasive powers with them. What did she offer to them so they would pass on the money? Did it go to her or to the People of Kashechewan? What is her relationship to De Beers? Who are her personal contacts within DeBeers who can do favors for her while they work things out the way they want?

So what is it? What is the CEAA process? Did you say that DeBeers paid those they wanted to talk to? Who did they pay - you, Ellis and whoever you selected? Why has the community been left dangling by Indian Affairs who are the fiduciaries? This is a human rights issue which Canada has agreed to uphold. What did that Iranian do and how did he come on the scene? It seems strange that he would appear from nowhere. Are you sure DeBeers didn't send him in there ahead to massage them for the onslaught that followed?

I asked again for him to call me but he never did.

15. Observation of John P.

Then John P., a Mohawk friend in Toronto sent me this on January 1, 2006. "Sis, you are stating pretty much the same thing I've have been telling people since the water crisis came to light down here. When you take a look at when they first discovered that there may be diamonds up there, the length of time it takes to do the geological surveys, analyze the data, then try to do a proper survey in SWAMPLANDS, then factor in just when the water treatment plant was built, it starts to look pretty shady, At least to this Indian, it does. But then again, it's only some savage, backwoods, heathen, pagan Indians. Who's going to miss or care about them? Let's get all the riches and dollars we can from Mother Earth!!!"

So it looks like we aren't the only suspicious people.

16. Chief Leo Friday

Leo Friday is the Chief of Kashechewan band council. Rebecca is the vice-chief. Rebecca said that Leo has agreed to remove the people and help De Beers.

Ellis came up with the idea to remove the people. She flew up there in August in a De Beers jet. Indian Affairs had moved the Kashechewan people onto a flood plain on the River draining into James Bay. Walls, as high as 20 feet, have been built all around the territory to keep the water out. It's like the levees around New Orleans. It is a swamp land which is very damp and causes all kinds of problems in their houses such as moss, fungus and other toxic conditions. It's making them sick.

Indian Affairs doesn't want to fix the water treatment plant because that would make the place viable. The houses could be fixed up. The idea seems to be to either move the people or to not bring them back to the community.

On January 3, 2006, Leo was supposed to bring the people to Toronto be assisted by Ellis to understand the agreement. Then at the end of the day De Beers was supposed to come in and meet with them and maybe finalize the agreement. Rebecca and the people held a meeting back in Kashechewan and refused to go to Toronto. They told Ellis, "If De Beers wants to speak to us, they'll have to come here". Rebecca said that Ellis was pretty upset over this turn of events and wanted to know what brought it about. Leo and Ellis had set up this meeting.

17. TREATY 9, 1905

Canada and Ontario have no rights to anything on this land without a treaty. Treaty 9 is fraudulent. Indian Affairs in 1905 selected the "Head Men" to sign this treaty. The Indian Act council was already in place before the treaty. This violates the constitution of Canada, Section 132 which stipulates that a treaty of surrender of land and sovereignty must be made before the Indian Act or the band council can be put in place in a community. The head men were selected by Indian Affairs. So the signatories were Indian Affairs nominees who were designated to sign away all the land. This is illegal and fraudulent according to constitution of Canada, the B.N.A. Act 1867, international law and the rule of law.

In Treaty 9, Kashechewan Crees were coerced into opening up their land for "settlement, immigration, trade, travel, mining, lumbering," etc. The Crees were informed they had agreed to "cede, release, surrender and yield to the colonial governments of Canada and Ontario their rights, titles and privileges forever." This violates Section 109 of the constitution in which Indigenous people have "prior interests" in all lands and resources. These rights supersede that of Canada and its provinces. The settlers allowed the original people the right to pursue hunting, trapping and fishing on their sovereign territory. Indian Affairs promised to set aside reserves of one mile per family. They will allow them to sell their reserve. Their reserve can also be expropriated for public works, railways and roads, etc. with compensation for any improvements if the government should so decide.

The Cree received $8 each at the signing and $4 every year for each family since then. What a bargain for the thieves! We wondered, "Don't all the other territories involved in Treaty 9 have to agree if there is any change to the treaty?" This agreement is outright genocide and violates the International Convention on the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Canada signed onto this! The Indian Affairs signer was none other than that cad Duncan Campbell Scott.

18. Arrival in Timmins

We arrived in Timmins at 9:30 am on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006, to catch our 10:40 flight to Kashechewan. Rebecca had told us to go directly to the CreeBec Airlines ticket counter for our tickets for the remainder of our jaunt. Leo was supposed to pay for this part of our journey from Timmins to Kashechewan and return to Timmins. There were reservations but our tickets had not been paid. I called the band office in Kashechewan and no one answered. After calling constantly about 20 times, a receptionist answered and kept putting me on hold. Music blared at me while a radio host spoke in Cree. She would not come back to the phone. I would hang up and call her right back. Finally, I told her, "Stay on the phone. I want to speak to Leo".

"He's on the phone", she said. Finally CreeBec who had been holding up the plane for us, had to close the gates and take off.

Finally in the afternoon Rebecca called my cell and told me how distraught she was. She had personally paid for our tickets from Toronto to Timmins on her own credit card. She told us, "Go to a hotel and wait for me. I need to speak to you. It is urgent. Please stay". She suggested the Bon Aire Hotel in Timmins. "I'll arrive tomorrow, Thursday, at 6:00 pm and meet you at your hotel room. I'll call you five minutes before I get on the plane". This was beginning to sound clandestine, like a mystery novel.

We found our way to Bon Aire. It's a busy motel. We got two rooms, one for me and Katenies and one for Aroniakon. It was getting pretty cold. The motel was full of Indigenous people who came and went, giving us glances acknowledging us as their brother and sisters. One time I was walking back to my room and came upon two tall Cree girls in warm parkas, one red and one blue. They looked exactly alike. They were standing outside their rooms smoking. "Where you girls from?" I asked.

"We're from Moose Factory", they answered. This community is south of Kashechewan on lower east side of James Bay. I had visited this place twice, once in the winter and once in the summer. I knew people there. It is a hard place to get to. We had to drive to Cochrance, took the Polar Bear Express for six hours through wilderness, and finally got there. It was exciting. It is so far north, very few non natives, and then suddenly you arrive in Moosonee, the sister community of Moose Factory. It full of life, people, skidoos, trucks and cars. All the businesses and people are open and friendly.

"Hey, my former son-in-law, Victory Linklater, is from there.

"He's our cousin", said the twin in the dark coat.

"Can you tell him that his Mohawk mother is asking about him for me?" I asked.

They laughed, "We sure will. Nice meeting you". They gave me his phone number and told me he was working for CreeBec Airlines at the airport in Moose Factory. I finished walking back to my room.

There were about 100 rooms set out in a long row which formed an "L" at the far end. We stayed at one of the far end rooms. It was nice and clean. We freshened up and went to nearby Mike's to eat. We kept talking about what could possibly have happened to our planned trip.

19. Wondering about Rebecca

"Let's just hope she gets on that flight tomorrow", said Aroniakon. He was worried about her.

"She wants to tape our meeting so she can play it all back to her people back home", I said. We agreed it was a good idea.

We wondered about Leo's relationships with De Beers, Ellis and Indian Affairs. Katenies commented, "They know about us and kept us from going there. That's what I think. But why?"

We then went back to our room and got on Aroniakon's computer which we hooked up to the motel internet. We did some research on De Beers and Ellis' website. We answered our emails. Many responses had come in on the MNN communiqué, "Lust for Diamonds", offering help and advice. We were encouraged by this.

20. WBAI Radio New York City

The next morning, Thursday, we listened to the Indigenous program on WBAI in New York City on the computer. I had been invited to speak on the Kanehsatake issue. But I had emailed them that I could not. I was away in the great white north. So they set up Pearl Bonspille and John Harding of Kanehsatake for the interview. We are writing a book on their adventures called, "Who's Sorry Now? The Good, the Bad and the Unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake". It is a satirical review of how Indian Affairs, the Quebec government and their point man, James Gabriel, were trying to remove these Mohawks off their land to mine the niobium they are living over. Niobium is a mineral that makes steel and other metals stronger and lighter, for armaments and space exploration. For twenty years the Mohawks have constantly resisted these attempts to remove them to the point that Canada organized a raid on their community. So the whole issue got international attention. Their interview was great! They were there. They could speak about the issues with passion.

"Their situation is similar in some ways to Kashechewan, isn't it, Katenies?" I exclaimed.

"We should explain this to Rebecca to show how this is the m.o. on native people everywhere", she replied.

Luckily Katenies had all our communiqués on her email archive. She pulled it out so we could read it to Rebecca. This way she would realize others are in the same boat as her.

22. Rebecca arrives in Timmins

Rebecca did call us 5 minutes before she boarded her flight. She arrived at the hotel at 8:00 pm. "I cannot understand what's happening, but I know something is happening", said Rebecca. "I need to understand the whole thing". She felt that getting the information will make her secure.

Over supper, Rebecca started to explain, "De Beers came in the 1960's. They went to the Dene people in the Northwest Territories in the 1980's. They came to Attawapiskat three years ago. De Beers and a whole bunch of others have stakes all around James Bay. We were never told anything! And this is our land!"

Aroniakon quietly explained, "In the U.S. there is a big push to open up the Arctic for oil drilling and minerals. It is closer to the US than the Middle East. Canada and the US are fighting over sovereignty". He explained, "For the past year we have been involved in the constitution jurisdiction issue. This is a land claims issue, a water issue. It's all about NAFTA. In this agreement the US has taken over Canadian water. In the future the US might annex Canada, taking the border right out and putting everything under their control".

Rebecca exclaimed, "Did you know that there's going to be a port built on Hudson's Bay? I heard about it a year ago. We haven't been told yet."

Rebecca said that Green Peace had visited Kashechewan last year. She had asked them, "Why did you come so late? We just found out about the diamond mines. Diversions have been created, such as the health issue from the foul toxic drinking water."

We asked Rebecca, "Who are the people you are dealing with at De Beers?"

She said, "Jonathan Fowler and Jeremy White who is the Vice President. Other names are Joe Young and Steve White of Thunder Bay Indian Affairs. They work together".

Finally, we were all tired out and decided to call it a night. But Rebecca, Katenies and I kept talking long into the night. There was so much for us to learn from Rebecca and she needed so much information.

22. What is R.C.M.I.?

We were all up early on Friday morning. Rebecca started recalling some strange happenings with Ellis and De Beers. "About two weeks ago I had to go to Toronto to meet up with Ellis and De Beers. I arrived at the airport. Ellis' butler picked me up. He was grubby looking and had a small dirty junky car. How does Ellis have someone like this working for her?" Rebecca pondered. He must have noticed that I was looking around and thinking about it. Anyway, the next day, he came to pick me up and he was all dressed up in a snazzy suit with a tie and he was driving a limo".

I asked her, "Where did you stay in Toronto?"

Rebecca said this was another strange occurrence. She couldn't remember the name of the place. Ellis told her it was an "Embassy". It was like a dark gothic museum full of guns and weapons. Finally she remembered, "It was R.C.M.I." None of us knew what those initials stood for.

After a while we figured it out. It was the "Royal Canadian Military Institute". But why would Ellis put her up there? Ellis said she was a member and had set up a meeting with them at this place one time.

We looked up RCMI on the internet. Sure enough, there was such a place as the Royal Canadian Military Institute. Rebecca recognized the pictures of the macabre exhibits and furniture. The website said that RCMI does "original research and studies of historic and contemporary defense issues. They are a key component of the ongoing effort to become the leading "think tank" for military and strategic affairs".

Wow! This was getting stranger by the minute. The head cheese is Col. Brian S. McDonald. They are developing laws and policies to establish martial laws should it ever be necessary. There is an "educational mandate" for something called "Strategy 2025".

The RCMI website states that RCMI is involved with all kinds of organizations like the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, military colleges, CIDA Canadian International Development Agency, the Navy, Canadian Secret Service, Emergency Preparedness and Response and Department of National Defense".

They are involved with the Canadian American Strategic Review, Asia Pacific Security, the McKenzie Institute, security and defense programs in universities, Arms Control Institute, Brookings Institute, Bulleting of Atomic Scientists, Global Security.org, Rand Corporation, International Institutes and Associations like the British American Security Information Council, Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, North American Aerospace Defense Command, NATO and, of course, the United Nations.

RCMI's mission is to deal with the violence of terrorism and horrendous possibility of attacks with weapons of mass destruction.

Ellis told Rebecca, "Kashechewan is going to be the model for other communities".

23. Rebecca blocks the ice road

Rebecca talked about the agreements for the roads through Kashechewan. They had given them to Ellis and Zane about a year ago and so far there was no feed back from them. "The agreements we are being asked to sign are for new roads to be built right through our community. They are demanding stringent conditions and the compensation goes directly to Indian Affairs, not to us, unless there is something left over. If there is any unrest, we forfeit any bonus payments. De Beers has not consulted the people and the chiefs signed the agreements without letting us know".

Aroniakon quickly read over the agreements and found a lot of omissions. For one, a fixed sum will be paid for maintenance as long as it is needed by De Beers. "They should pay every year for ever to the community consistent with inflation", he added.

Rebecca got so mad that she went out and blocked the ice road. Trucks could not go onto Attawapiskat. Then there was a revised agreement. The police will be sent up to stop anyone if they protest any incursions on their own land. "If we object we'll be arrested", she said.

The arbitrator to settle any disputes will be selected by them from Ontario. They are benefiting from the mining so how neutral can they be? The community will have no input. "They will contact Ontario Justice Committee and they will determine what is best for us", she exclaimed angrily. No independent party will be allowed to enter the arbitration process. The entire procedure must be conducted in the English language. The people in Kashechewan do not speak English. They will not understand what is going on!

During our discussions, Rebecca began to validate her thoughts and feelings about what is happening. "No matter what happens, if De Beers offers a deal and you say "no", they will go to the Ontario Court of Justice. They will favor them because they are all getting a benefit. We are a nation, our laws have to apply. We have to be allowed to bring our own people into this discussion".

24. Green Peace and the flooding

"Our river, the Nispatio, is going to be dammed and diverted. The province of Ontario secretly approved it without consulting us or getting our approval", Rebecca told us. "We will be flooded. Green Peace told us that we will have to be removed!" What have they done since their visit to help these people?

25. In the dungeon

After her complaints, she was spirited away to Toronto. Ellis put her up at the Royal Canadian Military Institute. "Was this to intimidate me?" she asked.

Rebecca said something very startling, "That Ellis is very disciplined, like a soldier!" We all commented that every time we had seen her she was wearing black clothes and a black trench coat like those kids wore at the Columbine school shootings.

Aroniakon said, "A very disciplined soldier". Why was Rebecca brought there?

Ellis told Rebecca, "Don't use your cell phone. Use only the Embassy phone." Rebecca didn't listen. She used her cell. She felt like she was being watched. "I thought I was a guinea pig for this place". It was full of weapons, ancient and recent. There was even Von Richtoven's seat from his Fokker plane from the First World War on display in a glass case".

26. Meeting with the Governor General of Canada

Then something else happened, that bewildered Rebecca. Ellis took her along to meet with the new Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean. Ellis told the Governor General that she wants to make Kashechewan community redevelopment model for the rest of James Bay. The Governor General said she would help Ellis to do this. It would cost a lot which would come from Indian money. They talked about making a model for Haiti at the same time. That's where the Governor General comes from.

Rebecca said, "Ellis and the Governor General discussed plans to develop the model for James Bay and sell it to Haiti".

Ellis told Rebecca, "This is a secret meeting and nobody is supposed to know about it". Ellis also told Rebecca that she was going to take her on a trip to China!

This wouldn't have something to do with Indian reserves, and Haiti development as tax free havens, would it?

27. In conclusion

In the end Rebecca said, "People are so desperate. They notice things. For the military to be involved this must be a big project. The Dart Team brought water up there".

"Why the Dart Team? This must be through Ellis' connection with RCMI", we suddenly realized.

"It cost $7 million to evacuate our people. Now the water costs $300 a bag of one litre that's being provided from the army!"

'People are fighting for jobs. Indian Affairs created this whole situation. They are spending $8 million to renovate badly constructed houses. This is creating fights between members of the community. We need an economy that we have total control over. Indian Affairs, De Beers and the Ontario government have all the strings".

Rebecca said that, "They don't want us to know what's going on outside so we can get information and help. There are a lot of human rights violations going on here".

The True Story Of Harris Neck

2011-12-20T21:52:00.000-08:00

The True Story Of Harris Neck
To: House Committee on Natural Resources....

Attn. Chief Legislative Clerk....

1324 LongworthHouse Office Building....

Washington, D.C. 20515....

.. ..

From: Sharon L. Kitchen (founder)....

Save the Sacred Sites Alliance....

P.O. Box 324....

Townsend, Ga.31331Phone:912-745-0033email: sharonkitchen@earthlink.net....

.. ..

Re: 12-15-11 Hearing on Harris Neck Land Trust by the Sub-committee on Fisheries, Wildlife ,Oceans,and Insular AffairsChairman: John Fleming ,M.D.Called by: Jack Kingston (Ga.)....

.. ..

To whom it may concern,....

I wish to have all the following documents and comments entered into the written record concerning the Harris Neck Land Trust which should be left as the Harris NeckWildlife Refuge.The refuge is protecting sacred sites and burials and villages on the 2,000+ acres. Since the refuge is under the federal laws, Section 106 of NAGPRA applies. The Harris Neck Land Trust has been trying everything it could to get this property. They have stated that their Gulla Gee Chee language is really Arabic in origin. Thus they applied for Ashoka Fellowship for money.Next they were Melungeon in an attempt to claim African, Arab, Native American mix, which does not exist. Anything goes as far as they are concerned, even Lying to the hearing committee. Is Perjury still enforced?The video of the meeting has several folks for this small land grabbing group doing exactly that. One African American even said he was Cherokee and had proof. This same individual several years ago claimed to be Seminole. So what is he?But too the bigger issue: No Native American was invited to this meeting. No input was collected by a Native American. Our ancestors graves and village sites need to left ALONE!!!!!!!!!! This refuge needs to retain control.....

Sharon L. Kitchen (founder)....

Save the Sacred Sites Alliance....

12-20-11....
For Documentation Follow the link>>>>
http://www.myspace.com/savethesacredsites/blog/545044018

ACTION NEEDED

2011-12-16T20:16:00.000-08:00

ACTION NEEDED

Calling all those folks that wish to save the 2,000 + acres containing ancient burrials and village sites.

The group that call themselves the Harris Neck Land Trust had their 12-15-11 hearing.

Most of what was said was lies. The Project coordinator,David Kelly stated that there were only 4 graves.

He was made aware of all the Native American graves as his group paid for a literuary review that included

all the studies done through out history of this site. So should this be classified as prejury to congress?

I guess he was talking about the few he knew from this group.No Federaly recognized Native American was asked

to be at this hearing. No Native Amercian studies were presented. It was if history only started with the bringing

of African slaves to this county. I had forward to the chairman Mr. John Fleming the rich Native Amercian history and

the archeology phase I's that have been done from 1897 to the present,so it will be included in the 14 day time period

and will be part of the record. Whether or not they put it in is another matter,

Since 1897 with Clarence B. Moore's archeology study up to the present day there are hundreds upon hundreds of burrials.

At one time there were so many that it was suggested that a Phase I study be done of the entire 2,000+acres and put

all under one name. These sites are protected as long as it is undet the U.S. Wildlife and Fish. Federeal laws apply.Section

106 applies of NAGPRA. But again, no Native American was called to be apart. Since this was to discuss ownership rights

then Native Amercians should have been called. THEY WERE NOT.

Send any statement you would like to : Subcommittee on Fisheries ,Wildlife,Oceans and Insular Affairs

1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C.

Chairman: John Fleming,M.D.. The senator that brought this up: Jack Kingston(Ga)

You can go to the Natural Resources site and watch the testimony. I should note here, that one African-American now claims to

be Cherokee. So what you will hear........well..(...I can not put what I think in this area).

I never could understand folks that have such a need as to lie. But these will lead to the destructiuon of Native American graves

and village sites.

So.......if you want ancient graves and village sites saved please send in your commments to this sub-committee. The 15 days start

from the hearing date of 12-15-11. http://Naturalresources.House.gov

Please forward this request to every one you know. I would also send a copy to the chairman and if you want to send us a copy that

will be great,as I can then forward all to the Federal Archeologist for the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge.

There is no bill number with this hearing.

Thank you for your time and your help in advance,

Sharon L. Kitchen (founder)

Save the Sacred Sites Alliance

how to submit a statementfor the record

http://naturalresources.house.gov/Info/faq.htm

The link above should send you tothe frequently asked Q&As for congressional public hearings. Sorry thatyou'll have to cut and paste it. The question below is from that website. Theydo not list a specific email address should you choose to submit a statement;but, it does request that you use their form which you can find by clicking onthe word "e-mailed".

How can I submit a statement for the record?

Any individual or organization wanting to present their views for

inclusion in the record should submit a typed, single-spaced

statement, not exceeding 10 pages in length. Title and date of the

hearing and the full name and address of the individual or organization

must appear on the first page of the statement. Statements must be

received no later than 10 business days following the conclusion of the hearing.

Statements should be mailed or e-mailed to:

House Committee on Natural Resources
Attn. Chief Legislative Clerk
1324 LongworthHouse OfficeBuilding
Washington, D.C. 20515

Hearing Tomorrow

2011-12-14T20:58:00.001-08:00

Hearing Tomorrow

this is the site with the burials and ancient village sites. it is an invitation only meeting.

It has ancient village sites and burials from the Yamasse (Muskogee) and other Indigenous People.

We have done all we can. Just pray they don't give the ancestors to these people to build their development on.

http://naturalresources.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=271601

Indigenous News 12/142011

2011-12-13T22:30:00.001-08:00

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From: “Dancing the Comanches” The Santo Niño, La Virgen (of Guadalupe) and the Genizaro Indians of New Mexico" By Bernardo Gallegos@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Indian tribe turns to tradition to fight diabetes Posted By Shirley in NDN Cooking and Home Making Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:53 am (PST) Indian tribe turns to tradition to fight diabetes Arizona's Tohono Nation hopes indigenous foods can help stop skyrocketing disease rate12/8/11_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://ww_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43257536/ns/health-diabetes/) <_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://ww_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43257536/ns/health-diabetes/) >The Tohono Indian Nation in south central Arizona is turning to oldtribal ways to solve a modern health problem.Over the past several decades, Type 2 diabetes has exploded on theTohono O'odham reservation, striking half of the adults livingthere. That's compared to an 8.3 percent rate among adults in theU.S. overall, according to government estimates."The biggest health<_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://wwh_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43257536/ns/health-diabetes/#) > crisis hereon the Nation is diabetes," Jennie Becenti, manager of HealthyO'odham People Promotion, told NBC's Robert Bazell. "We havethe highest rate in the nation."The diabetes rate among the Tohono O'odham tribe has skyrocketed alongwith with changes in their diet, Becenti and others suspect. Instead ofa traditional menu of tepary beans, cholla buds, prickly pear cactus,saguaro fruit, squash and corn -- all native to the southwestern U.S. --Tohonos now tend to eat a typical American diet: processed and junkfoods laden with carbohydrates, salt and fat.While that kind of eating has led to bulging waistlines on manyAmericans, its impact seems to be magnified in a people who forgenerations lived on a parched land that had to be worked with vigor tojust to produce a sparse harvest.Becenti and others hope that by stirring interest in the indigenous dietthat once powered the Tohono Nation, they might be able to beat this newmetabolic enemy."I think as a tribal community, if we start to re-educate ourselvesabout the nutritional<_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://wwh_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43257536/ns/health-diabetes/#) > value ofthose foods that are natural and that grow naturally around here, thenwe're going to make much greater headway in addressing diabetes andheart issues that are so prevalent with our people today," said NedNorris, chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation<_http://www.tonationhttp://ww_ (http://www.tonation-nsn.gov/) > .Thrifty metabolismThere is research to suggest that the Tohonos might be on the righttrack.Studies looking at another Indian Nation, the Pimas, have compared thehealth and lifestyles<_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://wwh_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43257536/ns/health-diabetes/#) > of tribalmembers living in Arizona to those dwelling in Mexico.Indian Nation looks to the past for healthier future<_http://dailynightlyhttp://dailhttp://daihttp://dailhttp://dailynhttp://dcs-indian-nation-cs-indian-nationcs-indian-natcs-indian_ (http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/09/9327074-back-to-basics-indian-nation-fights-diabetes-with-healthy-tradition) >The hope is that by comparing people with roughly the same geneticmake-up but greatly differing lifestyles, researchers will be able tofigure out why the Pimas in Mexico suffer from fewer health problems,especially obesity, than those residing in the U.S.Researchers suspect that the Pimas, like other desert-dwelling Indiansmay have developed genes that make their systems more "thrifty"when it comes to metabolizing food. A 2010 study in the Pimasunderscored the impact of lifestyle on people with a thrifty metabolism.The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &Metabolism, found that Pimas living in the U.S. were more than six timesas likely to develop insulin resistance as those living in Mexico. Andthat was true even after the researchers accounted for obesity, age andsex.The researchers concluded that lifestyle differences were probably toblame for the higher incidence in Pimas dwelling in the U.S.'These foods have meaning'That's something Terrol Dew Johnson can understand. He foundedTohono O'odham Community Action<_http://www.tocaonlihttp://www.http://www.http://wwhttp_ (http://www.tocaonline.org/www.tocaonline.org/Home.html) > , (_http://www.tocaonlihttp://www.http://www.http://wwhttp_ (http://www.tocaonline.org/www.tocaonline.org/Home.html) <_http://www.tocaonlihttp://www.http://www.http://wwhttp_ (http://www.tocaonline.org/www.tocaonline.org/Home.html) > ) a groupdedicated to bringing back the tribe's traditions. "These foodshave meaning," Johnson told Bazell. "These foods are medicine toour bodies. These foods will keep us healthy<_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://wwh_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43257536/ns/health-diabetes/#) > ."Perhaps just as important are the lifestyle changes that have led tomore sedentary habits among the Tohono Nation. "We've gotten tothe point where we don't have to work hard to get our food," hesaid. "In my parents' and even in my grand parents' time,they had to work literally every day and night to actually get food toeat. They were moving. They were exercising. Nowadays you can just driveup to a window and get food, medicine, anything."Even with scientific evidence in hand, those pushing for a change willstill have obstacles to overcome – the biggest of which may be thatmany on the reservation seem to have lost a taste for the traditionalfoods."I'm 55 and in my whole lifetime, have not eaten muchtraditional food," Norris told NBC. "And so, when I start eatingit, I haven't really acquired a taste for it. It's not theregular pinto beans that you buy off the shelf or the baloney you buy inthe grocery store. It's going to take some time for people tore-acquire a taste for those traditional foods."Story: Diabetes shame plus denial a risky combo <_http://www.msnbc.http://www.http://wwhttp://wwwhttp://wwhttp://www.http:e-plus-denial-e-plus-denia_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45137643/ns/health-diabetes/t/diabetes-shame-plus-denial-risky-combo/) >One way to change people's tastes is to put a new spin on the oldfoods. That's what's happening at the Desert Rain Café inSells, Ariz., where chefs have found ways to make the traditional foodsmore interesting and appealingAnother way to combat the problem is to teach young people about thetraditions that go with the foods, said Michael Enis, food and fitnesscoordinator for Tohono O'odham Community Action. Enis is in chargeof a program that brings traditional foods into the local school once aweek.That approach has worked for Zade Arnold, a teen who has started a farmof his own."I like working with traditional farming foods and culture,"Arnold said. "You get to touch the same seeds that people got totouch thousands of years ago. We get to work with the same prayers andsongs that people got to do hundreds and thousands of years ago."@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@-- "When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane. When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person. When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful. Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen

Letter To Chairman John Fleming

2011-12-12T20:52:00.000-08:00

Chariman John Fleming, 12-10-11
Per my conversation with Harry Burroughs of N.R. I am sending you some information that needs to be included int the 12-15-11 Harris Neck sub-committee report. This information will be concerning the Native American ancient burrials and sacred sites that are currently being protected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Richard S. Kanaski is the Regional Archeologist and he and the Harris Neck Refuge are doing a great job in protecting all the 2,000+ site.
This area should be left in their protection. Please see attached 4-21-10 letter to him from me. Also atttaced is my May 2011 "Calling All History Buffs",and the Oct.2007"Cultural Resources Literature Review" by W. Dean Wood paid for by Harris Neck Land Trust. They have kept this report hidden,they thought. They do not want anyone seeing this as is goes back through time to 1897 Moore,Clarance B. up to the present. Mr. Kanaski also has this report. The goup calling themselves a Land Trust only want to be given back land that is NOT theirs and destroy all burrials and village sites to build homes and sell them. Much in their typed web pages is not true.The documents that will be presented to you and the sub-committee from Mr. Kanaski are true. This group will not provide materails to you as they do NOT wish to follow section 106 of NAGPRA that is required, as this land is under a Federal agency. So they will continue to try and go around anyone they can. Due to section 106 they would have to contact all Native Americans that are Federaly recognized. They also do not want to do this. But this is the law. Native Americans do NOT want their ancestors gaves destoyed.
If you need anymore information please feel free to contact me.
Thank you for your time,
Sharon L. KItchen (founder)
Save the Sacred Sites Alliance

No Doomsday In 2012

2011-12-12T00:20:00.000-08:00

Apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. Yes, you read correctly, in some way, shape or form, the Earth (or at least a large portion of humans on the planet) will cease to exist. Stop planning your careers, don’t bother buying a house, and be sure to spend the last years of your life doing something you always wanted to do but never had the time. Now you have the time, four years of time, to enjoy yourselves before… the end.

So what is all this crazy talk? We’ve all heard these doomsday predictions before, we’re still here, and the planet is still here, why is 2012 so important? Well, the Mayan calendar stops at the end of the year 2012, churning up all sorts of religious, scientific, astrological and historic reasons why this calendar foretells the end of life as we know it. The Mayan Prophecy is gaining strength and appears to be worrying people in all areas of society. Forget Nostradamus, forget the Y2K bug, forget the credit crunch, this event is predicted to be huge and many wholeheartedly believe this is going to happen for real. Planet X could even be making a comeback.

Related 2012 articles:
■2012: No Geomagnetic Reversal (posted October 3rd 2008)
■2012: No Killer Solar Flare (posted June 21st 2008)
■2012: Planet X Is Not Nibiru (posted June 19th 2008)
■2012: No Planet X (posted May 25th 2008)
■No Doomsday in 2012 (posted May 19th 2008)

For all those 2012 Mayan Prophecy believers out there, I have bad news. There is going to be no doomsday event in 2012, and here’s why…

The Mayan Calendar
So what is the Mayan Calendar? The calendar was constructed by an advanced civilization called the Mayans around 250-900 AD. Evidence for the Maya empire stretches around most parts of the southern states of Mexico and reaches down to the current geological locations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and some of Honduras. The people living in Mayan society exhibited very advanced written skills and had an amazing ability when constructing cities and urban planning. The Mayans are probably most famous for their pyramids and other intricate and grand buildings. The people of Maya had a huge impact on Central American culture, not just within their civilization, but with other indigenous populations in the region. Significant numbers of Mayans still live today, continuing their age-old traditions.

The Mayans used many different calendars and viewed time as a meshing of spiritual cycles. While the calendars had practical uses, such as social, agricultural, commercial and administrative tasks, there was a very heavy religious element. Each day had a patron spirit, signifying that each day had specific use. This contrasts greatly with our modern Gregorian calendar which primarily sets the administrative, social and economic dates.

Most of the Mayan calendars were short. The Tzolk’in calendar lasted for 260 days and the Haab’ approximated the solar year of 365 days. The Mayans then combined both the Tzolk’in and the Haab’ to form the “Calendar Round”, a cycle lasting 52 Haab’s (around 52 years, or the approximate length of a generation). Within the Calendar Round were the trecena (13 day cycle) and the veintena (20 day cycle). Obviously, this system would only be of use when considering the 18,980 unique days over the course of 52 years. In addition to these systems, the Mayans also had the “Venus Cycle”. Being keen and highly accurate astronomers they formed a calendar based on the location of Venus in the night sky. It’s also possible they did the same with the other planets in the Solar System.

Using the Calendar Round is great if you simply wanted to remember the date of your birthday or significant religious periods, but what about recording history? There was no way to record a date older than 52 years.

The end of the Long Count = the end of the Earth?
The Mayans had a solution. Using an innovative method, they were able to expand on the 52 year Calendar Round. Up to this point, the Mayan Calendar may have sounded a little archaic – after all, it was possibly based on religious belief, the menstrual cycle, mathematical calculations using the numbers 13 and 20 as the base units and a heavy mix of astrological myth. The only principal correlation with the modern calendar is the Haab’ that recognised there were 365 days in one solar year (it’s not clear whether the Mayans accounted for leap years). The answer to a longer calendar could be found in the “Long Count”, a calendar lasting 5126 years.

I’m personally very impressed with this dating system. For starters, it is numerically predictable and it can accurately pinpoint historical dates. However, it depends on a base unit of 20 (where modern calendars use a base unit of 10). So how does this work?

The base year for the Mayan Long Count starts at “0.0.0.0.0″. Each zero goes from 0-19 and each represent a tally of Mayan days. So, for example, the first day in the Long Count is denoted as 0.0.0.0.1. On the 19th day we’ll have 0.0.0.0.19, on the 20th day it goes up one level and we’ll have 0.0.0.1.0. This count continues until 0.0.1.0.0 (about one year), 0.1.0.0.0 (about 20 years) and 1.0.0.0.0 (about 400 years). Therefore, if I pick an arbitrary date of 2.10.12.7.1, this represents the Mayan date of approximately 1012 years, 7 months and 1 day.

This is all very interesting, but what has this got to do with the end of the world? The Mayan Prophecy is wholly based on the assumption that something bad is going to happen when the Mayan Long Count calendar runs out. Experts are divided as to when the Long Count ends, but as the Maya used the numbers of 13 and 20 at the root of their numerical systems, the last day could occur on 13.0.0.0.0. When does this happen? Well, 13.0.0.0.0 represents 5126 years and the Long Count started on 0.0.0.0.0, which corresponds to the modern date of August 11th 3114 BC. Have you seen the problem yet? The Mayan Long Count ends 5126 years later on December 21st, 2012.

Doomsday
When something ends (even something as innocent as an ancient calendar), people seem to think up the most extreme possibilities for the end of civilization as we know it. A brief scan of the internet will pull up the most popular to some very weird ways that we will, with little logical thought, be wiped off the face of the planet. Archaeologists and mythologists on the other hand believe that the Mayans predicted an age of enlightenment when 13.0.0.0.0 comes around; there isn’t actually much evidence to suggest doomsday will strike. If anything, the Mayans predict a religious miracle, not anything sinister.

Myths are abound and seem to be fuelling movie storylines. It looks like the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is even based around the Mayan myth that 13 crystal skulls can save humanity from certain doom. This myth says that if the 13 ancient skulls are not brought together at the right time, the Earth will be knocked off its axis. This might be a great plotline for blockbuster movies, but it also highlights the hype that can be stirred, lighting up religious, scientific and not-so-scientific ideas that the world is doomed.

Some of the most popular space-based threats to the Earth and mankind focus on Planet X wiping most life off the planet, meteorite impacts, black holes, killer solar flares, Gamma Ray Bursts from star systems, a rapid ice age and a polar (magnetic) shift. There is so much evidence against these things happening in 2012, it’s shocking just how much of a following they have generated. Each of the above “threats” needs their own devoted article as to why there is no hard evidence to support the hype.

But the fact remains, the Mayan Doomsday Prophecy is purely based on a calendar which we believe hasn’t been designed to calculate dates beyond 2012. Mayan archaeo-astronomers are even in debate as to whether the Long Count is designed to be reset to 0.0.0.0.0 after 13.0.0.0.0, or whether the calendar simply continues to 20.0.0.0.0 (approximately 8000 AD) and then reset. As Karl Kruszelnicki brilliantly writes:

“…when a calendar comes to the end of a cycle, it just rolls over into the next cycle. In our Western society, every year 31 December is followed, not by the End of the World, but by 1 January. So 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan calendar will be followed by 0.0.0.0.1 – or good-ol’ 22 December 2012, with only a few shopping days left to Christmas.” – Excerpt from Dr Karl’s “Great Moments in Science“.

Sources: Dr Karl’s Great Moments in Science, IHT, 2012 Wiki

Leading image credits: MIT (supernova simulation), WikiMedia (Mayan pyramid Chichen Itza). Effects and editing: myself.

ATTENTION.........ATTENTION.......... Sacred Site In Danger

2011-12-09T21:51:00.001-08:00

ATTENTION.........ATTENTION..........ATTENTION

12-09-11

To all concerned about saving ancient burrials and village sites, there is an "invitation only" meeting

being called by the U.S. House of Representatives on 12-15-11. It will take place at 10:00 a.m.

It is listed as the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs.

This is the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge. Bill # 1171 under Natual Resources.

Their website is:https://naturalresources.house.gov

Their address: 1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515

Their phone: 202-225-2761 fax:202-225-5929

The hearing chairman:John Fleming MD. His address: 416 Canon HOB Washington, D.C. 20515

His phone:202-225-2777 fax:202-225-8039

The hearing notice sent out by John Hanline stated: "invitation Only", on 12-07-11,and call if any questions.

Under the (To) section: NO FEDERALY RECOGNIZED NATIVE AMERICANS ARE LISTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John Hanline phone: 202-226-0200. IF YOU WERE NOT INVITED, PLEASE CALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This sacred site has been studed since 1897. The whole place: 2,000+ acres is a SACRED SITE!

Currently all the area is protected by Federal Fish and Wildlife Services. There address:694 Beech Hill

Lane Hardeeville, S.C. 29927 Phone:843-784-9911 fax:843-784-2465 The Assistant Refuge Manager is

W.Shaw Davis.The Federal archeoloist has been a very great help.Please cc anything you may send to the

sub-committee to Shaw Davis.Her email: Shaw Davis@fws.gov

Just some of the site #,s:9Mc41,9Mc52,9Mc53,9Mc56,9Mc310,9Mc311,9Mc312,9Mc313,Mc-257,Mc-258 from the

latest "Cultural Resurces Literature Review" prepared for Ecological Solutions,Inc 630 Colonial Park Drive

Suite 200 Roswell, Ga 30075 by Southern Research,Historic Preservation Consultants,Inc. P.O. Box 250

Ellerslie, Ga 31807 W.Dean Wood Principal Investigator October 2007. This report can be obtained through the Freedom of

Information Act. The people trying to sneak this hearing through calls itself the Harris Neck Land Trust.

This paper was for them. They, of course, did NOT ever want anyone to know of its exsistance as they wish to

dig all the burrials up,destroy all the Native American graves and build new homes and sell them.

Bottom line: GREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please let all know of this latest meeting, as this is the latest sneak meeting. It is not an open meeting.

Once again.......NO...Federaly recognized Native Amercians "invited". Nor did they "invite" anyone who would

oppose this. Some of the "real" studies done: 1897-Moore, Clarence B.,1958-Larson,Lewis H.Jr.,1979-Fryman,Mildred

L. and John W. Griffon and James J. Miller,1982-Drucker,Lesly,1971-DePratter,Chester, 1989-Chapman and Associates,

1986-Braley,Chad O.and Lisa D. Steen and Irvy R, Quitmeyer.

All sites listed and those that are not are on the National Registry. The rest should be when and if they are

studied. As of right now the 2,000+ site is protected and falls under section 106 of N.A.G.P.R.A.

Please help keep this site protected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Call.......write........phone.........fax

Time is critical !!!

Thank you all in advance,

Sharon L. Kitchen (founder)

Save the Sacred Sites Alliance

2011-12-08T21:26:00.001-08:00

Indigenous News 12/8/2011M.s. Johnna Cherokee language segment from the documentary Voices of North Carolina the Cherokee language www.youtube.com Cherokee language segment from the documentary Voices of North Carolina. http://www.talkingnc.com/@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ M.s. Johnna The story of the Keetoowah Cherokee people Part 1 - Cherokee History As You've Never Heard It www.youtube.com The story of the Keetoowah Cherokee people@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field and in the policy arena to protect America's last wild buffalo.Buffalo Field Campaign Yellowstone Bison Update from the Field December 8, 2011 ------------------------------ ------------------------------* Update from the Field & Interagency Bison Management Meeting Report * TAKE ACTION! Wild Buffalo Need Your Voice Now! * Wild Bison 2012 Calendars Make Wonderful Gifts! * BFC Logo Contest Results * BFC Wish List 2012 * Mike Mease Heading to Arizona in April! * By The Numbers * Last Words------------------------------* Update from the Field & IBMP Meeting Report A buffalo calf checks in with mom after a nap. Wild American buffalo are ecologically extinct, existing on less than 1% of their historic habitat. The Yellowstone herds are the last population to hold identity as a wildlife species, the last wellspring of the great herds that once aided life across one third of North America's land mass. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image. Since our last report, another bull buffalo was killed in Montana's canned buffalo "hunt." If the agencies behind the Interagency Bison Management Plan have their way, hundreds of America's last wild buffalo could be cruelly eliminated from the population this winter. The alarming fact that wild bison are ecologically extinct does not seem to concern IBMP representatives. By their words and deeds they intend to push wild bison over the brink. BFC attended the two-day IBMP meeting last week. The first day was devoted entirely to presentations by the IBMP Citizens Working Group (CWG), an unlikely collaboration of conservationists, cattle producers, and other concerned citizens positioned on both sides of the issue, working to improve the failing IBMP. Sadly absent from the CWG were First Nations voices and many locals who are directly impacted by the IBMP-driven buffalo wars that are literally carried out in their front and back yards. Generally, the CWG recommendations echoed management strategies and goals that the highly controversial IBMP is already engaged in or proposing. There were, however, a few very good suggestions presented, including year-round habitat on lands contiguous with Yellowstone National Park, opposition to vaccinating wild buffalo, and increased responsibility from cattle producers. Unfortunately, the CWG recommended that slaughter should continue, though as a last option, as well as increased hunting and quarantine. While we applaud the CWG for making the effort, wild buffalo continue to come last. There are many components that continue the livestock model status quo, validate the brucellosis myth, and ignore the fact that cattle are an ecologically harmful and invasive species. The Working Group's recommendations make no mention of the dire status of wild American bison. The IBMP agencies were pleased with the similarities the CWG shared with their own adaptive management ideas. You can read the CWG's report here. The IBMP will review the CWG's recommendations and offer responses at a public meeting in late-February. On the second day of meetings the IBMP representatives revealed some shocking plans to further harm America's last population of wild buffalo. While the population currently numbers approximately 3,700 animals, the agencies announced a target population size of only 3,000. They intend to "selectively cull" at least 700 wild buffalo through increased hunting, slaughter, and shipment outside the Yellowstone area. The agencies announced their goal of engineering an equal male/female sex ratio, and want to focus on decreasing the number of females in the northern herd. They repeatedly threw out the term "over abundance," even though scientific studies have concluded again and again that wild buffalo are ecologically extinct. Managers from Yellowstone National Park, anticipating a winter similar to last year, stated that they intend to capture and hold hundreds of migrating buffalo again this winter. The agencies are working under an old operating plan, and have yet to come to consensus on adaptive changes that have been discussed, touted in the press, and nearly agreed to for months. Increased tolerance in the Gardiner Basin will be on hold until current litigation issues are settled and an Environmental Assessment (EA) is completed. This EA, due out in about a week, will need your voice! Nez Perce and Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal representatives with the IBMP expressed support in increasing hunting opportunities while cautioning against slaughter. The InterTribal Buffalo Council voiced their support for slaughter, increased hunting, and quarantine. Conspicuously absent from agency discussion were plans by APHIS, the federal livestock overseer, to sequester up to 108 wild buffalo and use them in birth control experiments. Thankfully, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has already announced that he will not allow IBMP agencies to ship wild buffalo to slaughter through Montana, so this should help stem the blood flow, as it did last year. However, Schweitzer is also pressuring Yellowstone to open its boundaries to hunting, which the Park stated neither they nor the public will support. The weather is helping keep buffalo alive for now. With little snowfall so far, the buffalo have not yet needed to seek lower elevation habitat, and are essentially absent in Montana. BFC, as always, is in the field every day, monitoring the buffalo's movements and advocating for their lasting protection. You are the biggest part of our success, and there are numerous things you can do to help to champion wild buffalo and keep BFC on the front lines, working in their defense. With all the overwhelming desire from the IBMP and the CWG to continue to kill or domesticate wild buffalo as the only "solution" to the problems cattle have caused, there's never been a bigger need for BFC to be on the front lines, representing WILD buffalo and honoring their perspective. ROAM FREE!------------------------------* TAKE ACTION! Wild Buffalo Need Your Voice! 1. Stop Federal Livestock Overseer from Harming Wild Buffalo! 2. Urge Congress to Pass Public Lands Grazing Bill! Thank you so much for taking these important actions! If you do get a response from these decision-makers, please forward a copy to Stephany. And, if you feel that your concerns have not been addressed by the decision-makers you have written to, write them back or call them to let them know you expect a thoughtful response. Please spread the word by passing these alerts on through all your networks of friends and colleagues! Thank you! 3. Make a year-end donation to keep BFC strong and effective in the field and at every level of the policy arena. Donations are tax-deductible and go directly to BFC's critical program work.------------------------------* Wild Bison 2012 Calendars Make Wonderful Gifts! We can't believe it's nearly time to take down our first ever Wild Bison calendar and hang up the new and amazing Wild Bison 2012 calendar! We hope that you have been thoroughly enjoying your Wild Bison Calendar, and that you are equally as excited as we are for the 2012 edition! These calendars make terrific gifts, so if you're still looking for that perfect something for someone, please consider a Wild Bison 2012 Calendar, the gift that celebrates wild buffalo every single day of the year!Order Your Wild Bison 2012 Calendars Now! ------------------------------* Results Are In for BFC's Logo Contest After some very difficult decision-making, BFC has finally chosen a new logo! Well, three, actually. With more than 30 creative entries, we had our work cut out for us. We thank everyone who participated in this logo contest for your time, creativity, and art. Because the decision was so hard to make, we present to you our top three choices! Look for them in this and future Updates from the Field and on our web site. BFC logo choice #1 submitted by Timm Kurtz. CONGRATULATIONS! Click image for larger view. BFC logo choice #2 submitted by Laura Ladendorf. CONGRATULATIONS! Click image for larger view. BFC logo choice #3 submitted by Laura Ladendorf. CONGRATULATIONS! Click image for larger view. ------------------------------* BFC Wish List 2012 There are many ways for you to make a difference for wild buffalo. Our wish page is one way to visualize the breadth of Buffalo Field Campaign's reach and capacity to work in defense of wild buffalo year-round. It's also a great way to match your interests with our day-to-day needs, prayers and wishes.BFC Wish List 2012 ------------------------------* Mike Mease Heading to Arizona in April! Buffalo Field Campaign co-founder Mike Mease will be giving a presentation at the University of Arizona. He would also like to organize an event or two for the community. He is available for presentations on April 3-6. Please contact him if you are willing to help set up an event. Mike can be reached via email or by calling 406-646-0070. Thanks and see you in the spring!------------------------------* By the NumbersAMERICAN BUFFALO ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S. The last wild population is currently estimated at fewer than 3,700 individual buffalo. Wild bison are currently ecologically extinct throughout their native range in North America. 2011-2012 Total Buffalo Killed: 3 2011-2012 Government Capture: 2011-2012 Government Slaughter: 2011-2012 Held for Government Experiment: 2011-2012 Died In Government Trap: 2011-2012 Miscarriage in Government Trap: 2011-2012 State & Treaty Hunts: 3 2011-2012 Quarantine: 2011-2012 Shot by Agents: 2011-2012 Killed by Angry Residents: 2011-2012 Highway Mortality: 2010-2011 Total: 227 2009-2010 Total: 7 2008-2009 Total: 22 2007-2008 Total: 1,631 * Total Since 2000: 3,975* *includes lethal government action, trap-related fatalities, quarantine/experiments, hunts, highway mortality-----------------------------* Last Words"... culling of Yellowstone bison to prevent transmission to cattle has been ineffective at reducing brucellosis infection. This management strategy is negatively affecting long-term bison conservation .... Bison management practices used to prevent brucellosis transmission to local cattle conflicts with the goal of conserving bison and the processes that sustain them (e.g. migration) .... Removing brucellosis-infected bison is expected to reduce the level of population infection, but test and slaughter practices may instead be removing mainly recovered bison." ~ Excerpts from a scientific paper, which Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologists contributed to. The paper is titled, "Estimating probabilities of active brucellosis infection in Yellowstone bison through quantitative serology and tissue culture." The paper appeared in the Journal of Applied Ecology and can be viewed on our web site. Do you have submissions for Last Words? Send them to bfc-media@wildrockies.org. Thank you for all the poems, songs, quotes and stories you have been sending! Keep them coming!------------------------------ Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758406-646-0070bfc-media@wildrockies.org http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.orgBFC is the only group working in the field every day in defense of the last wild buffalo population in the U.S.KEEP BFC ON THE FRONTLINES Join Buffalo Field Campaign -- It's Free!Tell-a-Friend!Take Action!Find BFC on FaceBook! ROAM FREE! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Tory appointee charges $1,300 a day to run Attawapiskat finances Spread the word. Every invitation counts: Invite Friends The federal government is forcing the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation to pay a private-sector consultant about $1,300 a day to run its finances – even though the government's own assessments say the third-party management system is not cost-effective.Aboriginal Affairs officials told The Canadian Press they have an agreement to pay Jacques Marion of BDO Canada LLP a total of $180,000 to look after the reserve's accounts from now until June 30.More related to this storyThe money comes from the Attawapiskat First Nation's budget. That rate over the course of a year would run up to $300,000 and easily pay for at least one nice, solid house, notes Mushkegowuk Grand Chief Stan Louttit.“And [Aboriginal Affairs] should pay for this over and above First Nations existing budgets,” he said.Instead, the band will soon find itself cutting off educational assistants and aides for special-needs children in order to scrape together the money to pay the consultant, said New Democrat MP Charlie Angus, whose Northern Ontario riding includes Attawapiskat.“What they've done is taken $300,000 out of this band's limited budget for political cover to pay for the mistakes of an incompetent minister,” Mr. Angus said. “They have to shut down programs to pay for this guy.”Mr. Marion's daily fee is about a month's salary for educational assistants, he added.The price tag is well within the going rate, say those familiar with third-party management of native reserves. Assembly of First Nations officials say per-diem rates for third-party managers are between $1,000 and $3,000, plus expenses.Stan Beardy – Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which includes Attawapiskat – says that communities in the James Bay region would normally have to pay $200,000 and $300,000 a year for such a government appointee.Per diem rates vary widely to reflect the difficulty of the job at hand, a spokeswoman for accounting firm KPMG said. The firm does a lot of business with first nations, but is not involved in the Attawapiskat contract.Neither KPMG nor BDO would comment on specific rates, nor would Mr. Marion explain what he would do in return for the fees. “We will not respond due to the confidential nature of our arrangements,” he said in an email response to questions from The Canadian Press.However, Aboriginal Affairs is now making some of the details public.In a statement to The Canadian Press, the department said the appointee has been instructed to put the community's health and safety first, and to continue financing all building projects that support that aim.“The work of the third-party manager will support the department's first priority which is to address the community's immediate health-and-safety issues,” a note from departmental spokeswoman Genevieve Guibert said.Mr. Marion has been told to assess the need for housing, and then provide “safe, warm shelter” to anyone living in a temporary home, until other housing options are identified.On Wednesday, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan wrote the band's chief to say the government would consider evacuation or retrofitting the local arena and treatment centre for shelter until 15 new modular houses could be trucked in on the winter road.The appointee is also supposed to be working “on site,” the department email says. However, for now, Mr. Marion is not there because the band council sent him packing when he arrived on Monday.Band Chief Theresa Spence has argued vigorously against intervention, saying it is an attempt to discredit her leadership during a housing crisis that requires immediate measures – and not the long-term accounting advice that generally comes from third-party management.Aboriginal Affairs has three different levels of intervention when a band is having financial trouble, and third-party management is for the very worst cases. The latest tally shows 12 bands are currently being run by government appointees.Before now, Attawapiskat was already in the second-ranked arrangement, with the department “co-managing” band finances.Third-party management is usually triggered by glaring financial irregularities or a default on payment, but can also be prompted by a threat to the health and safety of a band's inhabitants. That was the trigger in the case of Attiwapiskat.The band has annual revenues of about $17-million, and a budget of about half a million dollars a year for housing.A recent departmental review of the intervention regime concluded that the third-party management system is not cost-effective, and hurts a band's ability to govern itself.“Considerable time and effort is required from [Aboriginal Affairs] and recipients to implement the intervention policy,” the November 2010 evaluation says. “The cost of co-managers and third-party managers affects the availability of band support funding for governance and administration in recipients.”The review points out that third-party managers are not able to use surpluses to pay off debt.It also said the arrangement is applied inconsistently across the country, making measurement of success or failure difficult. Some third-party arrangements drag on for up to 10 years, with no evident plan to graduate to a more independent financial arrangement.The Auditor-General has also repeatedly criticized third-party management for not being properly monitored by the government.http://links.causes.com/s/clyZTz Spread the word. Every invitation counts: Invite Friends @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@BAY AREA INDIAN CALENDAR, Dec 7, 2011 Thanks to American Indian Contemporary Arts/AICA for the calendar. More info linked to Bay Native Circle page at www.kpfa.org. To include events send text info to Janeen Antoine or post on the Bay Area Native American Indian Network. Bay Native Circle at kpfa 94.1 airs every Wed, 2–3 pm with rotating hosts Lakota Harden, Janeen Antoine, Morningstar Gali, Ras K’Dee and Mark Anquoe. On FB. This week Mark Anquoe interviews guests on ICWA and updates on mining issues in Indian Country with Jim Brown, Shawna Lawson and Manny Pino plus native music and the Bay Area Indian Calendar. If public radio is a part of your life, please support kpfa.org with a financial contribution. Even small contributions help! Pilaunyapi! Upcoming Thursday December 8th at 7pm City of Fremont council chambers 3300 Capital Ave., Fremont Planning Commission will consider: Patterson Ranch 6330 Patterson Ranch Road development agreement annual review for the Patterson Ranch planned district located generally at the northeast corner of Ardenwood Blvd. and Paseo Padre Parkway. To many this area is know as Coyote Hills. This project will disturb Ohlone burial sites. The City has stated that this is not near the water there for this is not considered scared sites. However there is a known Ohlone site in the area and across from this site were remains found and in that case the developer did not report that remains were being found. I have been attending meetings concerning this project for 7 years with only 1 other person joining me in objecting to this project. I have asked that this land continue to be left undeveloped as the rest of Coyote Hills. It would be good to have more Native's make a showing in objection. These burial sites need to be respected and the ancestors need to be allowed to rest in peace. From Carmen Saldivar on FB. Thurs, Dec 8, 5th Annual Heyday Harvest, Malcolm Margolin introduces four authors from Heyday's New California Writing: Andrew Lam, Stephen Meadows, J. Tony Serra and Mariah K. Young. David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley. Reception 6:30, program 7:30, $55 tickets reserve by Dec 1. more info. Thurs, Dec 8 – Northern CA Chapter Luncheon, 11 am-1 pm, Location: River Rock Casino, 3250 Highway 128 – Geyersville, CA 95441 for directions click here, Annual Winery Tour After Holiday Meal and Chamber Festivities, No Charge to Attend Due to the Kind Support of Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, Please bring an unwrapped toy for our Toy Drive and/or a gift for the raffle. Due to the casino's state compact, no alcohol is allowed in gift baskets or as raffle gifts. rsvp 213.440-3232, stateadmin@aicccaql.org. Am Ind Chamber of Commerce of CA. Fri, Dec 9, 6-on, Celebrating the new Book: Malaquias Montoya by Terezita Romo, A Talk with the Artist and Author, Refreshments, Wine, Art & Books. Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, 510.533-6629, www.eastsideartsalliance.org. Sat, Dec 10, 1-4pm, community training on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St., Berkeley. Free. Beverages/snacks provided. RSVP: Tatiana@aicrc.org, Presenters: Alex Cleghorn, attorney Caifornia Indian Legal Services; Kimberly Cluff, lawyer practicing tribal law; Vida Castaneda, Court services analyst; and Ella Callow, Legal Program Director for The National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families, a project of Through the Looking Glass and other BACAIR member agencies (http://www.bacair.org). Sat, Dec 10, 1-5 pm, Heyday Holiday Book Sale and Open House,Heyday, 1633 University Ave., Berkeley. Special presentation at 3:30 p.m. with Malcolm Margolin and Susan Snyder: The Making of Beyond Words! FMI: heydaybooks.com. Sat, Dec 10, 1-7 pm. Native American Holiday Craft Fair, IFH, 523 International, Oakland. Native American arts and crafts, jewelry, pottery, beadwork, Native dolls, and Pomo baskets. Indian Tacos and baked goods. The public is invited, free. Youth organized. Wheelchair accessible, Walking distance from Lake Merritt BART and on bus lines 62, 1 & 14. FMI: Carol, 510.836-1955, ifhoakland@gmail.com. Sat, Dec 10, 3-5, Decolonize Oakland teach-ins to explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on Oct 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority, Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater, Oakland. FMI: Joanne Barker, jmbrkr62@gmail.com, Join Us: Facebook Open Group & Page: Decolonize Oakland, Tumblr: Decolonize Oakland, Twitter: DecolonizeOak, Sat-Sun, Dec 10-11, Art Quintana’s Old Pawn Jewelry Show, Gathering Tribes, 1412 Solano Ave, Albany. FMI: 510.528-9038, www.gatheringtribes.com. *** Weekend hours: Saturday, 10-7, Sunday, 11-6. The box loads of older and newer Southwest Indian jewelry including necklaces, bracelets, rings, bolo ties, concho belts, earrings & more is 20% off of the marked prices. Art also brings beautiful beadwork from purses to dolls, each an amazing work of art. Tues, Dec 13, 1-5 pm, Bay Area Northern CA Climate Change Roundtable, David Brower Center, 4th fl Conference Room, Berkeley, Ohlone Territory, IITC, invitation-only strategic discussion to exchange information and strategies about the impacts, policies and, most importantly, solutions to climate change in the SF Bay Area and Northern California. FMI: Mark Anquoe, IITC, 415.641-4482 x302 mark@treatycouncil.org Thurs, Dec 15, 4-on, Heyday Holiday Party, Bingo 6 pm, potluck, 1633 University, Berkeley. FMI: http://heydaybooks.com/party. Sun, Dec 18, Leonard Peltier Walk for Human Rights begins at Alcatraz & ends May 18 in Washington, DC. LPDOC : http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/index1.htm, Walk info: http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/walk.htm, 501-C-3 for the walk http://lpdoc.blogspot.com/2011/09/wcts-communique-leonard-peltier-walk.html. Wed, Dec 21, 4-8 pm, Intertribal Friendship House Holiday Dinner/Santa Claus/Gift for Children after dinner. 523 International Blvd., Oakland CA 510.836.1955, http://www.ifhurbanrez.org, IFHOakland@gmail.com. Sun, Jan 15, 12-2, Decolonize Oakland teach-ins to explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on Oct 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority, Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater, Oakland. FMI: Joanne Barker, jmbrkr62@gmail.com, Join Us: Facebook Open Group & Page: Decolonize Oakland, Tumblr: Decolonize Oakland, Twitter: DecolonizeOak, Sun, Jan 15, 4-8, event on new natural eating coaching program for preventing and reversing diabetes naturally. at the Happiness Institute in SF. Free, FMI: Micha'el Bedar (thelivingmichael@gmail.com). Sat, Feb 11, 3-5, Decolonize Oakland teach-ins to explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on Oct 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority, Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater, Oakland. FMI: Joanne Barker, jmbrkr62@gmail.com, Join Us: Facebook Open Group & Page: Decolonize Oakland, Tumblr: Decolonize Oakland, Twitter: DecolonizeOak, Sun, Mar 11, 12-2, Decolonize Oakland teach-ins to explore some of the questions raised at the “Occupy Oakland” General Assembly on Oct 28 when the Memorandum of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples passed by a 97% voting majority, Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater, Oakland. FMI: Joanne Barker, jmbrkr62@gmail.com, Join Us: Facebook Open Group & Page: Decolonize Oakland, Tumblr: Decolonize Oakland, Twitter: DecolonizeOak, EXHIBITS “We Are Still Here,” the Alcatraz occupation exhibit on the island. With photographs of the 40th anniversary occupation celebration; an audio landscape with excerpts from interviews of Alcatraz veterans and native activists; a collage of contemporary and archival footage; contemporary Native American poetry; and original art, the exhibit will be housed in the cellblock basement until February 2012 and will then move to another location on the island. FMI: Phil: 415.531-6890, pklasky@igc.org. Sep 20, 2011–Jan 6, 2012 California Crossings: Stories of Migration, Relocation, and New Encounters. Mon-Fri with exceptions | 10 am-4 pm | Bancroft Library, Gallery, UC Berkeley. Selected from Bancroft’s voluminous collections, the original manuscripts, drawings, paintings, photographs, rare publications and prints highlight the often contradictory and competing claims to history from the points of view of the original peoples and the national interests that set in motion California’s coming of age. Includes section from the Bay Area American Indian Community History Center, including images and early ‘70s article by Ilka Hartman. FMI: bancroft@library.berkeley.edu, 510.642-3782. (Closed: Nov 11, 24, 25; Dec 26-30). Exhibit: Double Vision Sept 29 - Dec 2. CN Gorman Museum, The exhibition poses an intervention with the photographic archive based on historical images from the late 1800s by Laton Alton Huffman and William Henry Jackson held in the collections of the Great Plains Art Museum at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Tuskegee/Dine) creates works that serve as a remembrance of the bison, a visual confrontation, and an appropriation into a Native American context. Artist & Curator Lecture: Tues, Nov 29, 4pm. "The Americana Indian" til Dec 10. Maidu Museum and Historical Site, 1970 Johnson Ranch Rd, Roseville. Curated by Stanford alumnus Dr. Brian Baker, Sacramento State University. 9:00-4:00 Mon-Frid and 9:00-1:00 Sat. Info: maidumuseum@roseville.ca.us. California Indians: Making a Difference, The California Museum, 1020 O St., Sacramento. The first statewide project to emphasize Native voices in California. visitors will be immersed in California Indian culture through displays of artifacts, oral histories, photographs, maps, and contemporary art. FMI: 916.653-7524 or www.californiamuseum.org. ANNOUNCEMENTS/OPPORTUNITIES 2011 Dolores Sanchez Memorial Christmas Toy Drive for Muwekma Ohlone Children. Donate an unwrapped new toy (for children 0-18 years old). Native American Cultural Center, 524 Lasuen Mall, Clubhouse, Ground Floor, Stanford. The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Education Youth Committee will pick up toys Mon, Dec 12 to distribute Dec 17. Thank you for your generosity! For information about the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe (the indigenous people of the San Francisco Bay Area) visit www.muwekma.org. Truly CA of KQED seeks well-crafted documentaries to feature on selected Sundays at 6pm on KQED TV, with repeats on KQED's other digital channels and Comcast Video on Demand. Seek entries that featuring compelling characters, about California in some way, primarily shot in California, and preferably made by California's talented, independent, documentary filmmakers. Season Eight submission deadline Mon, Jan 9, 5pm. App and info: <http://subscribe.kqed.org/site/R?i=lSbNF1B92vuEbDZv_IG7iw>. diabetes survey on lifestyle, diet, life factors, and mental attitudes, designed to discover how to help people get the treatment that is right for them. By Micha'el Bedar (thelivingmichael@gmail.com) for master’s thesis. Seeks native input. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/68DCY2BCall for papers, 13th Annual American Indian Studies Assn. Conference, ASY, Tempe, AZ. Feb 2-3, 2012. Theme: Making the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People Work for Tribal Communities. Submit in digital format a paragraph on panel theme, list of panel participants with address and email info, and a 200 word abstract by Dec 15, 2011. FMI: Elizabeth P. Martos, Coordinator American Indian Studies, PO Box 874603, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287-4603, elizabeth.martos@asu.edu. Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grants. Individual SF or LA based artists receive up to $500 and arts organizations receive up to $1,000 in professional development reimbursement grants to build administrative capacity and hone business skills. Applications due by 15th of the month for notification on the 15th of the following month. To apply: http://www.cciarts.org/ccf/quickgrant.htm Video Appeal from Russel Means to support his fight with cancer. Lehman Brightman Healing Fund. Monetary gifts are greatly appreciated and can be mailed to: United Native Americans, Inc., 2434 Faria Avenue, Pinole, CA 94564. FMI, unitednativeamericansinc@gmail.com or 510.672-7187. Petitions: “Indigenous Mothers Against Mercury" IEN Petition: English, and Spanish.President Obama: Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline!Abolish Corporate Personhood and Defend Democracy. Free: “Mission Labor” California missions under Spanish and Mexican rule. Suitable for grades 4-5, Spanish/English, 24 pages. Download free pdf or purchase $3 each, $2/10 or more. FMI: www.cft.org.PDF Boarding Schools curriculum. Zibbiwing Center (Saginaw Chippewa). http://www.sagchip.org/ziibiwing/. 48 page Student Resource Guide from CA Congresswoman Lucille Royball-Allard. Bay Area events: mybart.org, and sf.funcheap.com. Also in Oakland, kids eat for free. ONGOING TV: San Jose, Channel 15, Native Voice TV, Sat 4-5 pm. Hosts Cihuapili and Michael New Moon. Also 1st, 3rd, 4th MON, 8 pm courtesy La Raza Round Table.First Nations Experience Television, http://fnx.org/.Radio:Bay Native Circle, Wed 2-3 pm, kpfa.org 94.1 fm, Janeen Antoine producer, Hosts Lakota Harden, Janeen Antoine, Morning Star Gali, Ras K’Dee, Mark Anquoe. Berkeley.Indian Time Tues 8-10 pm, kkup.com 91.5 fm, Jack Hyatt/David Romero. Native Way, 2nd/4th Sun, 1-3 pm, David Romero/Veronica Gonzales. San Jose.On Native Ground - Where Art Speaks! kdvs.com, 90.3 fm,Thurs 8:30-9:30 am, Jack Kohler / Patrice Pena. Sovereignty Sound, DJ Ya-nah, Sun 3-6 am, 916.380-2818. Davis.Webworks: Voices of the Native Nation, 3rd/4th Wed, 6-8 pm, kpoo.com 89.5, Mary Jean Robertson, San Francisco.Calendars/Newsletters:Bay Area native community network. Bay Area Indian Calendar.News from Native California Quarterly. Submissions by email, or PO Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709 or fax 510.549-1889. $22.50. Read this message from Margaret Dubin, Managing Editor of News.San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council newsletter, Kathryn Paddock, President, 415.887-9315.Powwows: http://500nations.com/California_Events.asp.Arts in Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley & Richmond: 510arts.com. West of Bay (Peninsula) Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits. Learn powwow and honor songs. 1st Tues 7:30-9:00 pm, at LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, SF. Ask for BAAITS drum practice; Jaynie Weye Hlapsi aka (Jaynie Lara) leads the classes, sings and drums on Sweet Medicine Drum. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford. 650-723-4177. “Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas,” Northwest Coast, California, Southwest, and Mesoamerica collections. Wed–Sun. Free. de Young Museum, Teotihuacan murals, California baskets, Inuit/Eskimo art, Pueblo pottery. Free 1st Tues, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, SF, 415.750-3600. the first Tues of month free. FMI: www.deyoungmuseum.org; 415-750-3600. Images of the North. Inuit sculptures, prints, masks, jewelry, several exhibits yearly, Oct. Cape Dorset Print Show. 2036 Union, SF, 415.673-1273, gallery@imagesnorth.com. Kaululehua Hawaiian Cultural Center, 423 Baden Ave, So. SF. Mon: Men & Women (13-40) 6:30-7:30; Tues: Kupuna (50+) 6-7; Wed: Keiki (5-12) 6-7; Thurs: Makua (35-50) 6:30-7:30. Bring open mind and willingness to learn. ($10/class) rsvp: info@apop.net 650-588-1091. Mission Dolores. 3321 16th St, SF, 415.621-8203, Andrew A. Galvan, (Ohlone), Curator. SF’s oldest intact building. The only intact Mission Chapel of the original 21. Final resting place of 5,000 First Californians. Native plants/artifacts. North of Bay (To Sacramento) Sacramento Powwow Dance Class & Potluck, Mon, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Sierra 2 Center: Curtis H all, 2791 24th Street, Sacramento. Free/open to all ages and levels. Bring your drum if you have one and sing! Potluck 2nd/4th Mon. FMI: Shonnie Bear: 916-747-5133, Frances Rocha: 916-544-7121, Jup McCloud: 916-704-4864, Email: sac.pw.dance.class@gmail.com On FB. CN Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall, UC Davis. Mon-Fri, 12-5pm & Sun 2-5pm, cngorman@ucdavis.edu 530.752-6567. http://gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu. California Indian Museum, 1020 O St, Sacramento. “American Masterpieces: Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry,” Through early 2010, Admission. California Indian Museum & Cultural Center, 5250 Aero Drive, Santa Rosa, 707.579-3004, cimandcc@aol.com. “Ishi: A California Indian Story of Dignity, Hope, Courage and Survival.” Jesse Peter Native American Art Museum, Santa Rosa Jr. College, Bussman Hall, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.527-4479. California cultures, artists change monthly. Maidu Museum and Historic Site, 1960 Johnson Ranch Dr., Roseville. 916.774-5934. Marin Museum of the American Indian, 2200 Novato Blvd., Novato, 415.897-4064. “Sharing Traditions,” last Sat, 1-4 pm. Tues-Sun 12-4 pm. Free. Mendocino County Museum. 400 E. Commercial St., Willits, 707.459-2739. Wed-Sun: 10-4:30. Pomo baskets and weavers. Free. Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin helps identify, preserve and protect the cultural and physical resources of the Coast Miwok indigenous peoples of Marin and southern Sonoma Counties. info@mapom.org, Janice Cunningham 415.491-0401. MAPOM, PO Box 481, Novato CA 94948. Northern California Flute Circle. 530.432-2716. Native Am. Flute concerts & workshops. Pacific Western Traders, 305 Wool St., Folsom, 916.985-3851. Wed-Sun, 10-5. Native American arts, books, recordings, videos, Pendletons. Changing exhibits. Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council. Mugg’s Coffee Shop, Ferry Building, 495 Mare Island Way, Vallejo. 707.552-2562 or 707.554-6114. Call to confirm Thur 6:30 pm meetings. Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council. Lakota Language Class, 2nd Wed/4th Wed, 6-8 pm, Native American Studies, 301 Wallace St, Vallejo. FMI:, Midge 707.226-1234. Community, adults and especially youth welcome. Free. Janeen Antoine teaches 2nd Wed, Midge Wagner 4th Wed. East of Bay (To Tuolumne) Four Directions AA Meetings, Suns at 2, IFH, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. Meetings: 1st Sun: Birthdays; 2nd Sun: As Bill Sees It; 3rd Sun: Step Study; 4th Sun: Basket Drop. Children welcome, open meeting. FMI Vermaine 415-933-1259. Lakota Conversation Class, Tues, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, IFH, 523 International, Oakland. FMI: Janeen. Healthy potluck, donations. Lila wopila IFH, AICLS, Community Futures Collective, AICA and AICRC for helping our tiyospaye learn Lakota. Thanks also to our teacher and mentor Willie Underbaggage. Medicine Warriors All Nations Dance Practice. Free, open to all. Thurs, 7-9 pm, IFH, 523 International, Oakland. “Friendship, Fitness, Fun.” San Leandro Thurs Nite Powwow Class, 6-8 pm, on FB. Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555. Fees and Reg. required. Register online for some classes: www.ebparksonline.org. FMI: 510.544-3200. www.ebparks.org. Events also at Garin Regional Park, 1320 Garin Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544, 510.544-3079. Gathering Tribes, 1412 Solano, Albany. 510.528-9038. Weekend artist presentations. Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. 510.836-1955. Classes: Tues: 6-9 pm, Beading Circle w Gayle Burns, 6:30-8:30 Lakota. Thurs: Medicine Warriors/All Nations Dance, Fri: Talking Circles, Sat: Gardening, Parenting. Library open some Tues/Thurs. Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St, Oakland. 501.238-2200. Historical display of California lifeways/basketry. Free First Suns. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 103 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley. 510.643-7649. Wed-Sat, 10 am-4:30 pm, Sun 12-4 pm. Free; $5 tours, $2 children. South of Bay (To Santa Cruz) IHSCV Dance and Drum Class Tues, 5-7:30, Roosevelt Community Center, 901 E. Santa Clara St, San Jose; Youth Empowerment Program tutoring Wed 4-7 and Thurs 4-6; and Youth Empowerment Program Thurs, 6-8, 25 N 14th Street, Ste 140, San Jose, CA 95112. FMI: 408.445-3400 x 330, ahernandez@ihcscv.org. Funded by One With All Substance Abuse Prevention program of the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley. Four Directions Nat Am AA Meeting, every Fri 8 pm, 749 Story Rd, San Jose FMI: Linda W, 408/564-3895. Indian Canyon, Ceremonial Refuge/Facilities, w. of Hollister, ams@indiancanyon.org. ANNUAL EVENTS Avoid scheduling conflicts and plan in advance. For inclusion, email listings in format below. Post more details on Bay Area Native American Indian Network. Pilamayaye! Jan 28, Sat, MWAN B-Day Party, IFH, Oakland, Gilbert Blacksmith. Mar 10, Sat, NAHC Running is My High, Oakland, LauraM@nativehealth.org.MAR 25, SAT, 6th Taking Care of the Tribe/NAAP Powwow, Location tbd, Anna Leroy.Apr 28, Sat, 3rd Pow Wow, Sacramento City College, sccnafsa@yahoo.com.Apr 28, Sofia Yohema Gathering, Lake Merced, johnnyclayart@gmail.com.Apr 28-29, CA Indian Market, San Juan Bautista, fourcornerstrading@msn.com. May 6, Sun, UCB Powwow, Berkeley, naoc@berkeley.edu.May 12-13, Fri-Sun, Mothers Day Weekend, Stanford Powwow, info@stanfordpowwow.org.Dates from 2011:May 13-15, Fri-Sun, 3rd Pit River "Big Time" Powwow.May 14, Sat, 12th Bloody Island Memorial, Clayton Duncan.May 14-15, Sat/Sun, 10th CA Indian Market, Tuolumne, Jennifer Bates.May 21, Sat, 5th Comedy Jam, San Jose, vmcloud@ihcscv.org.Jun 5, Sat, Gathering of Honored Elders, Sacramento.Jun 18, Ohlone Big Time, Yerba Buena Gardens, SF.Jun 19, Sat, 14th Native Contemp Arts Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens, SF, Janeen Antoine.Jun 25, 2nd Richmond Powwow, Nichols Park, Courtney Cummings.Jul 16, Sat, 31st Kule Loklo Big Time, Point Reyes National Seashore.Jul 23-24, 16th ITC Pow-Wow, Vallejo, Midge, 707.226-1234.Jul 29, 10th Gathering of the Lodges, Oakland, KathrynB@nativehealth.org.Aug 20, Sat, Storytelling Festival, Indian Canyon, Hollister, Ann Marie Sayers. ams@indiancanyon.org.Aug 20, Sat, 7th Friendship House NDN Market/Powwow, SF, jayder@friendshiphousesf.org.Sep 10, SAT, MWAN Powwow, Clinton Square Park, Oakland, Gilbert Blacksmith.Sep 10-11, Tuolumne Acorn Festival, Tuolumne, CA.Sep 17, Sat, Am Ind Heritage Celeb/Big Time/Powwow/Market, San Jose, jatchico-shrestha@ihcscv.org.Sep 17, Sat, NAHC Pow Wow, San Leandro, Cathy Wisdom.Sep 23, 4th Fri, California American Indian Day. Oct 2, Ohlone Gathering, Coyote Hills, Fremont, chvisit@ebparks.org.Oct 8, IPD Pow Wow/Market, Berkeley, info@ipdpowwow.org.Oct 10, IPD Sunrise Ceremony, Alacatraz Island, Mark Anquoe.Oct 22, Sat, N. A. Culture Day, Oakland Library, rchacon@oaklandlibrary.org. Oct 27-30, 26th Annual California Indian Conference, Amy Huberland, 530.898-5438.NOV 4-12, AIFF American Indian Film Festival, SF, filmfestival@aifisf.com.NOV 12, SAT, AIFF Awards Night, SF, www.aifisf.com.Nov 20, Honoring Sobriety Powwow, San Jose.Nov 21-23, AIM National Conference, SF, Tony Gonzales. Nov 24, IITC/AICA Sunrise Ceremony, Alcatraz Island, Mark Anquoe.Nov 25, Black Fri Shellmound Mall Protest, Emeryville, shellmoundwalk@yahoo.com.Dec 3-4, Sat/Sun, AICRC Powwow, Laney College, Oak, Mary Trimble Norris.@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Obama Signs Executive Order on Education and Tribal CollegesBy Rob CapricciosoDecember 5, 2011Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/05/obama-signs-executive-order-on-education-and-tribal-colleges-65644 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/05/obama-signs-executive-order-on-education-and-tribal-colleges-65644#ixzz1g0mbhclo@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Billie Fidlin 9:49pm Dec 8 "We believe the sky to be the first creation. The sky is the Giver of life. In my personal belief it is from there that the Creator watches over all. The first level of Creation, called Gisoolg, means you are created, in this understanding, the sky..." Read more at WnT link Native Spirituality below. Native Spiritualitywhispernthunder.orgCheck out http://whispernthunder.org/!... -- "When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane. When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person. When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful. Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen

The Adoption Era, defined: Native Americans expose forgotten period in their history

2011-12-05T22:15:00.001-08:00

The Adoption Era, defined: Native Americans expose forgotten period in their history http://stephaniewoodard.blogspot.com/2011/12/adoption-era-defined-native-americans.html

Indigenous News 12/6/2011

2011-12-05T21:50:00.001-08:00

Indigenous News 12/6/2011 Aim Santa BarbaraDecember 3rd 4th Mission Santa Barbara is Celebrating its 225 year of abuse Its time for a Silent Protest for the Chumash and all California Tribes affected by the Missions that Raped, Murdered and Enslaved our Ancestors. Saturday December 3rd, Mission Lawn, 5 pm to 9pm Please dress in all black, bring a candle, and sign. Please remember that this is a silent and peaceful protest.@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Bernardo GallegosGómez-Quiñones argues for readers to connect to the intellectual traditions of an ever-present American Indigenous civilization. With this new consciousness of lndigeneity, readers can better understand the intellectual and cultural heritage of all peoples in the Western hemisphere as a continuation of millennia of history and civilization.Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future - Juan Gomez-Quinones : Small www.spdbooks.org Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@M.s. Johnna https://www.iltf.org/news/announcements/deadline-file-claim-keepseagle-approaching-fast Deadline to File a Claim in Keepseagle Approaching Fast | Indian Land Tenure Foundation ~all native american farmers and ranchers ~ If you are a Native American farmer or rancher, you may be eligible to file a claim for up to $50,000 in the $760 million Keepseagle Settlement reached with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).Deadline to File a Claim in Keepseagle Approaching Fast | Indian Land Tenure Foundation www.iltf.orgIf you are a Native American farmer or rancher, you may be eligible to file a claim for up to $50,000 in the $760 million Keepseagle Settlement reached with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Settlement is a result of the Keepseagle v. Vilsack class action lawsuit which claimed ...http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iltf.org%2Fnews%2Fannouncements%2Fdeadline-file-claim-keepseagle-approaching-fast&h=BAQFu7rTDAQELzp-GGpj4xylV2Sxahc7aZlDRpIxC2Db0HA@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@StrongBear posted in Tsalagi United. Rama StrongBear 8:34pm Dec 3 Osiyo Friends and Family: Today is a different day for me for I was sharing what my Grandmother use to tell me as a child growing. Now with respect to Brother Bear and everyone here I would like to share something most Cherokee People do not talk about... So I found myself looking and praying about it and then my spirit felt to share it with you here... With respects: CHEROKEE LEGENDS OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE The Cherokee, like other Native American tribes and indigenous people around the world have many legends going back centuries about how the world was formed and how the world works. It is my hope here to share a tradition which not to many people know about or talk about. These Cherokee stories which are ancient tell of the nature of the animals, plants, trees, mountains, streams and rivers of the land in the Smokey Mountains and the Appalachian Mountain region. One of the Old story from the Cherokee Nation is tales which include accounts of “the little people,” the “Yunwi Tsunsdi.” These beings are sometimes described as being spirits, and other times as small human-like people, about two feet to four feet tall. These little people who the Cherokee nation calls ‘Yunwi Tsunsdi’ may have different appearances and yet according to legend, they may be of three or four different types. They are well shaped and handsome, and their hair so long it almost touches the ground. Little people can be kind and helpful, especially to children, great wonder workers, and can also play tricks on people. They love music and spend most of their time drumming, singing, and dancing. Sometimes their drums are heard in lonely places in the mountains, but it is not safe to follow it, for they do not like to be disturbed at home, and they will throw a spell over the stranger so that he is bewildered and loses his way, and even if he does at last get back to the settlement he is like one dazed ever after. They can also be dangerous if a human intrudes on them, and they have the power to confuse the mind of a human. The little people have the ability to remain unseen and invisible if they choose and generally avoid being detected by humans. But, at times, they will reveal themselves. They live close to nature, in the forests and mountains. They have a spiritual aspect to them and they try to teach humans about kindness, joy and respect. Some Little People are black, some are white and some are golden like the Cherokee. Sometimes they speak in Cherokee As we try to understand our world, nature and the universe, we collectively use a wide range of investigative methods: Science, observation of and interaction with nature, direct experiences of many kinds, spiritual teachings, history, human legends, art, music and other paths. Below is one human legend shared by people liken to my Grandmother and other Elders who have or know of such people. The Laurel, Rock and Dogwood Nation (People) Over the years we use our Grandfathers’ the Great Rocks but as time moves forward, the Rock People became mean ones who was known to practice the actions of ‘getting even.’ They would be know later in the stories as the ones who would steal children who where themselves mean. This is what happens when their space is being invaded. Of course there are those who are good in nature and even are known to take care of people in general. They are known as the Dogwood Nation (People). Dogwood People share their nature by fast growing and when they are in bloom; will be full of flowers. It is the nature of the Dogwood People that helped bring the love and peace to the forest people, as well as the Cherokee People. We know that everything that has to do with the medicine of the Cherokee People is for learning and teaching. Liken to the Little People these lesson was past down to us. 1. The Rock People teaches us that what ever you do you will get the Karma back. Always we must respect all limits and boundaries of everything around us. 2. The Dogwood people teaches us, when we do anything to anyone make sure it is done in goodness of our own heart. Do not make people obligated to anyone or yourself for personal gain. 3. The Laurel People teaches not to take to the world too seriously. Be in joy and we must learn to share the joy with others. Remember, the Laurel People like to play tricks and at times may be mischievous in nature but never mean. Because the Laurel People have a humorous nature and love to share the joy with others. Do Hi Yi Ga Do Ga Awi StrongBear@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@M.s. Johnna Where is one more Fake Cherokee Organization: Wannabes are systematically destroying Cherokee history, culture, language and sovereignty and some of our own people are helping them either by collaborating with them or remaining silent.http://www.secherokee-confederacypa.org/sponsors.html Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy of PA - Earth Band secherokee-confederacypa.orgCheck out http://secherokee-confederacypa.org/@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ My dear friends, I am in need of your help for a very important program! The Extreme History Project is competing to win film making equipment and support for a documentary project. We REALLY need people to simply click on the link below and play the video. Each play of the video counts towards our winning this much needed equipment for a fabulous organization. Will you please help and forward this out to all your contacts and ask for their support? THANKS everyone, I know I can always count on you!Shelley Bluejay Pierce From the Extreme History Project-We have submitted a video pitch to the Montana Film Office “Pitch the 406 contest” where we can win the use of $20,000 worth of film equipment and support to make our Fort Parker Documentary. There are only 27 video’s competing, so we really have a shot at this! All you have to do is watch! Every view is a vote, so watch the short video and share the link with your friends!! Thanks!!Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKHKC3o4xhM&list=PLAC338B781B1B621A&index=9&feature=plpp_videoThe Extreme History Project has been researching the history of Fort Parker, the First Crow Indian Agency and has been working with PBS Montana to create a documentary detailing the reservation period of the Crow Nation. The Extreme History Project has recieved a grant to film oral history interviews on the Crow reservation as a the foundation of the documentary. These interviews will interweave with the history of Fort Parker and the second agency near Absarokee Montana. This story is an important part of Montana history, but is generally unknown and untold. Its expression has enormous potential for awareness, understanding and healing. America's Indigenous peoples have suffered the historical trauma of this period for seven generations. It is time for this story to be told. Learn more about the Extreme History Project at www.extremehistory.wordpress.com@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ CherokeeLink Newsletter ************************** OsiyoWith the arrival of the Christmas season, the annual Cherokee Nation Angel Tree is here as well! Located in the main lobby of the W.W. Keeler Tribal Complex near Tahlequah, our tree has gift information for nearly 1,500 men, women and children who might otherwise go without this Christmas. Won't you please be an "Angel"? Drop by the tribal complex and choose one or more persons to provide for this year. Wado! Wado! (Thank you) Cherokee Nation P.O.Box 948 Tahlequah, OK 74465918 456-0671 communications@cherokee.org------------------------------------------------------------************************** ***Cherokee Nation News***** **************************Baker nominates BIA regional leader for Secretary of State:11/29/2011 2:42:24 PM© Cherokee NationCherokee Principal Chief Bill John Baker has tapped a regional Bureau of Indian Affairs Director as the tribe’s new Secretary of State.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32836/Press_Article.aspxCherokee Nation requests Public Comment:11/29/2011 8:43:00 AM© Cherokee NationOkla. — A public comment period will open in December so that Cherokee Nation citizens and other residents can make their voices heard about the tribe’s intentions to apply for a 2012 Community Development Block Grant through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32833/Press_Article.aspxCherokee Nation Registration to visit Delaware County:11/29/2011 8:40:12 AM© Cherokee NationThe Cherokee Nation is offering assistance with applications to obtain Cherokee Nation citizenship and Certificate Degree of Indian Blood cards in Delaware County on Monday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sam Hider Health Center in Jay, 1015 Washbourne St. http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32832/Press_Article.aspxCherokee Arts Center Now Open:11/29/2011 8:13:09 AM© Cherokee NationThe Cherokee Arts Center is now fully operational, giving the Nation’s artists a place to teach, learn, create, exhibit and sell their work. The CAC is in downtown Tahlequah at 212 S. Water St.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32831/Press_Article.aspxCherokee Nation Registration to visit Sequoyah County:11/30/2011 1:32:17 PM© Cherokee NationThe Cherokee Nation is offering assistance with applications to obtain citizenship within Cherokee Nation and a Certificate Degree of Indian Blood card in Sequoyah County on Friday, Dec. 9, at the Sallisaw Sub-Office, 110 N. Elm and again on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the Cherokee Community Center in Muldrow, 607 N. Main.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32837/Press_Article.aspxCherokee Nation Angel Tree gives children a Brighter Christmas:11/29/2011 11:30:54 AM© Cherokee NationYou can make a child’s Christmas brighter this year by adopting an angel from the Cherokee Nation Angel Tree. Angels are available to adopt from trees located at the Cherokee Nation Tribal Complex and at W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah through Monday, Dec. 12.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32834/Press_Article.aspxPrincipal Chief Baker nominates Rogers State official to Newspaper board :11/30/2011 2:00:23 PM© Cherokee NationPrincipal Chief Bill John Baker has nominated Claremore resident Clarice Doyle to the editorial board of the Cherokee Phoenix.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32838/Press_Article.aspxCherokee Tobacco Prevention program reaches 5,000th Student:11/29/2011 11:42:13 AM© Cherokee NationThe Cherokee Nation set a milestone by reaching the 5,000th area student to take part in the tribe’s school-based tobacco prevention program. It happened during a tobacco prevention presentation held recently at Dewey Middle School.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32835/Press_Article.aspxBallot order set for Tribal Council election:12/1/2011 4:37:09 PM© Cherokee NationThe ballot order is now in place for January’s special election to fill a vacant Tribal Council seat. Seat 1 for District 1, which includes Cherokee County and eastern Wagoner County, was vacated earlier this year when incumbent Bill John Baker was elected principal chief.http://www.cherokee.org/PressRoom/32840/Press_Article.aspx-----------------------------------------------------------********************************* **** Other Links of Interest *********** ********************************* Games - http://www.cherokee.org/home.aspx?section=culture&culture=games Community Calendar - http://www.cherokee.org/home.aspx?section=calendar RSS Feed - http://rss.cherokee.org Podcasts - http://podcasts.cherokee.org E-Cards - http://ecards.cherokee.org@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Rosamary RubioThe first and most important value change to be made is in the heart. The heart where love resides has different values. Only when we all love each other as one human race, seeing the planet as one common homeland, caring for and cooperating with one another as one loving family, will we find ideal, real, solutions for the problems we are facing.Oren Lyons: Value Change for Survival ECU#574 www.youtube.com Oren Lyons: Value Change for Survival Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation who for decades has been a visionary voice, active in international ind...http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FhDF7ia23hVg&h=4AQFjMCuSAQE5IIrGb2xRXvv6e2u2iCTVlIzT_W6fmw3ZLg@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ From the Eagle Watch December 5, 2011This article is important and interesting in its own right for theGitxsan people. It is also more widely interesting and importantbecause it is a scenario being repeated all over Indian country fromNunavut to James Bay to Gitxsan territory in the west. It's part ofthe colonial strategy of divide and conquer in its modernvariation. With first nations being corporations, these people areplaying a dangerous game with their own. All power to theTraditional people and original ways of knowing.Kittoh<kittoh@storm.ca> ---------- Forwarded message----------From: Rafe Mair<rafe@rafeonline.com>Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:12 PMSubject: Gitxsan sign with EnbridgeTo: rafe@rafeonline.comSubject: Gitxsan sign withEnbridgeRAFE HERE … I was at the NewsConference where 130 First Nations signed the Fraser Covenant whichopposed the proposed Enbridge pipeline from the Tar Sands to Kitimat andopposed shipping to Vancouver via the Kinder Morgan line.. I was shocked this morning to read that the Gitxsan Tribehad signed a deal with Enbridge.So, it seems, were the Gitxsan people as witness thepress release below. Please pass this along The Gitxsan people are outraged… IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASEDecember 2, 2011Gitanmaax, B.C.… …“The Gitxsan people are outraged with the Enbridge Northern GatewayPipeline Agreement”…Contrary to the announcement of Elmer Derrick of today’s date, therepresentatives of the Plaintiffs to the British Columbia Supreme CourtAction No. 15150, cited as Spookw v. Gitxsan Treaty Society, oppose theAgreement. The Gitxsan plaintiffs include Hereditary Chiefs and fourGitxsan bands with a population of over 6,000 Gitxsan people; themajority of whom are House members in the Gitxsan traditional systemrepresented by Hereditary Chief, Spookw, in the court action.The representatives do not support Enbridge Northern GatewayPipeline agreement entered into by Elmer Derrick and state “Elmer Derrickand the Gitxsan Treaty Society/Gitxsan Economic Development Corp. doesnot speak for all Gitxsan. The Gitxsan people had no knowledge of theproposed Agreement nor were they consulted”. The Plaintiffs contend thatthe Gitxsan Treaty Society, or the Gitxsan Development Corporation, doesnot have the authority to enter into such Agreements without consultingor being authorized by the Gitxsan people.Knowledge of the signed Agreement was only obtained throughmedia, much like the Gitxsan Alternative Governance Model of May 2008,the subject matter of litigation in Spookw v. Gitxsan TreatySociety.The representatives say that not only were the communitiesnot consulted, but importantly, the Environmental Review Process is notyet complete with community hearings being scheduled for January 2012;therefore, a decision to support it is, at best, premature. Until theEnvironmental assessment is complete there is no basis for saying thisproject is safe to build.The Representatives say the 7 Million dollars is a pittancein comparison to the potential environmental impacts which will becatastrophic. The GTS/GED is willing to jeopardize the sustenance of theFirst Nations people for a few million dollars is reprehensible and isnot supported by the Gitxsan people.Mr. Derrick espouses the importance of Gitxsan Law; however,breached such law by announcing and celebrating the Agreement on the dayof the funeral of an elder matriarch and Hereditary Chief. This type ofconduct brings shame and is disrespectful to the grieving family and thetraditional system.The representatives say that Mr. Derrick has embarrassed andshamed the Gitxsan people by undermining the 61 First Nations who areopposed to the project. The representatives say “We stand in solidarityto those opposing it.”@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Billie Fidlin ‎"Lozen was a Chihenne-Chiricahua Apache born around 1840 (as, I believe, was Dahteste). Lozen was admired by her brother, Victorio. He thought and spoke of her as a brave, protective and strategic warrior for himself as well as their tribe. At the age of 7 Lozen began to display horse riding ability, so she was guided and encouraged to ride a horse and became an excellent horsewoman. Lozen was also a prophet who could “see” where the enemy was coming from..." Read more by clicking on WnT link Apache Warrior Women below. Apache Warrior Women whispernthunder.orgCheck out http://whispernthunder.org/ !@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Aim Santa BarbaraFamily comes first no matter what, you can not be any sort of activist if you can not take care of/or support your children. Activism starts at home. These so called "warriors" don't do shit for thier own families- that right there will tell you who you are dealing with- and who you are dealing with is a fucking hypocrite and some one that is perpetuating the oppression of our people- perpetuating violence against our people. They are perpetuating sickness in our communities....they are parasites = leeches-- "When crazy people call you crazy, you know you're sane. When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person. When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful. Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen

Indigenous News 12/2/2011

2011-12-02T21:05:00.001-08:00

Bernardo Gallegos

7:47pm Dec 1

ONLY APPROVED INDIANS!

Only Approved Indians is the thirteenth book by Forbes, but the first one featuring fiction. In these stories he captures the remarkablebreadth and variety of American Indian life. Drawing on his skills as scholarand native activist, and, above all, as artist, Forbes enlarges our senseof how American Indians experience themselves and the world around them.

Though all the main characters are of Indian descent, each is a unique combinationof tribal origin, social status, age, and life-style--from native elderand college professor to lesbian barmaid and Chicano adolescent. Neverthelessthe U.S. government (and perhaps white society as a whole) narrows the definitionof "Indian." In the title story, for example, two basketball teamsbegin fighting when one accuses the other of lacking BIA status-governmentrecognition. When tournament officials disqualify the team that lacks "official"Indian players, the "approved" team celebrates its victory.

Forbes's characters want to be unique, but they must struggle for this right,and they must endure pain. Forbes shows how such quests can have personaland political motives and can meet with success or failure and how thosewho search for individual identity must reckon with the identity of theirgroup. Thus, in retelling the story of the Seminole War, Injun Joe caststhe Indians, not the whites, as victors. He cannot rewrite history, butby recreating it he can come to terms with a painful legacy. Imaginationis equally important to other characters: even when they cannot achievechange, they can envision it.

Professor Forbes, chair of Native American Studies and professor of anthropologyat the University of California, Davis, was born in Long Beach and grewup in El Monte and Eagle Rock. He has lived in Davis since 1969. He attendedthe University of Southern California, earning A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees,the latter in history with a minor in North American ethnology. Forbes workedhis way through college, serving on the fire crew of the Lassen NationalForest and driving trucks for Meadow Gold Dairies. In 1960 he joined thefaculty at California State University, Northridge. There he received aGuggenheim Fellowship and then in 1964 moved north to the University ofNevada, Reno.

In 1967 he assumed the post of Research Program Director at the Far WestLaboratory for Educational Research and Development in Berkeley. He thenbecame a professor at U.C. Davis in 1969. In 1981-82 he was named a FulbrightVisiting Professor at the University of Warwick, England, and in 1983-84he was honored with the Tinbergen Chair at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.In 1986-87 he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Anthropology,Oxford University, England.

Of Powhatan, Delaware and other background, Professor Forbes became veryactive in Native American affairs very early, organizing the Native AmericanMovement in 1961. In 1960 he formed the American Indian College Committeewith Navajo artist Carl Gorman and others to create proposals for an Indianuniversity. At Cal State Northridge he developed a proposal for an AmericanIndian Studies program in 1960, ten years ahead of its time. In 1967 hewas a co-founder of the California Indian Education Association and in 1971of D-Q University, the Indian college near Davis. From 1968 through 1969Forbes was a co-organizer of United Native Americans in the Bay Area andserved as editor of Warpath. During the same period and later heserved as editior of the Powhatan newspapers Tsen-Akamak and Attam-Akamik.

Forbes' published writings include twelve books, over twenty short booksand monographs, ninety-five scholarly articles, over one hundred populararticles, numerous short stories, and poems. His first book, Apache,Navaho and Spaniard, remains in print after thirty-two years. Columbusand Other Cannibals is the current culmination of Forbes' thinking aboutthe ultimate social causes of aggression and exploitation and about NativeAmerican philosophical beliefs. His earliest version of the book was sketchedout in 1976 and published in a preliminary version in 1978.

The stories in Only Approved Indians open our eyes to the injusticesof this world but at the same time they reveal magic and provide transcendentvisions of the world as it might be. It is published by University of OklahomaPress (ISBN: 0-8061-2699-X, March 1995).

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Historic Breaking News: A Child's Remains and other bones have been identified at Canada’s oldest Indian residential school in Brantford, Ontario - please post
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>>A Statement from the Kanien'keha':ka Nation of the Grand River
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>>Archaeological surveys and test digs authorized by we, elders of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, have been conducted at the former Mohawk Institute Indian residential school since October 1.
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>>This past week, while on the grounds of the school, our researchers along with Kevin Annett -Rawennatshani, who acts with our approval, have unearthed what has been described as human remains. One bone among sixteen uncovered has been identified, through preliminary visual examination by a competent archaeologist, as that of a young child. This bone sample is described by the same archaeologist as “definitely human”.
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>>A test dig in a twenty square foot area on grounds adjoining the former Mohawk Institute have revealed a considerable number of bones, as well as buttons which have been confirmed to be part of the children's school uniforms. Large deposits of coal were also found associated with these remains, all at a depth of barely two feet. Several of the bones have also been cut up, suggesting that the bodies may have been deliberately dismembered, while other bones were broken.
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>>We declare the area on and near the former Mohawk Institute to be a crime site under our jurisdiction, and we will not allow representatives of the Crown or Church of England, or the government of Canada, access to these excavations because of their complicity in this crime.
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>>These institutions have consistently refused to disclose the evidence they possess regarding the Mohawk Institute and the deaths of children under their legal care, and therefore, we are proceeding to charge these bodies with crimes against humanity in international courts of justice, based in part on the forensic evidence we have uncovered.
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>>We now call upon our community and the world to rally behind our efforts to bring recognition to the remains of children buried on the Mohawk Institute grounds, and our work to excavate this site. Prior to any possible repatriation of these remains, and because these remains may include children from other indigenous nations, we look to those nations to participate with us in this work and welcome their input, and we urge them to begin their own excavations at local Indian residential schools.
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>>We appeal to other nations to send archaeological and forensic specialists and international observers and peacekeepers to our territory to operate under our Mohawk jurisdiction, to assist with our inquiry and protect the burial sites until the remains can be accorded a proper burial according to our diverse traditions. Until these experts arrive to conduct a professional archeological excavation of these graves, we are temporarily suspending our excavations.
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>>As our investigation continues, the bone samples will be subjected to further forensic tests, and this data about the human remains uncovered at the Mohawk Institute will be prepared in a final report to be delivered in the spring of 2012 to human rights courts and Parliamentarians in Europe, as part of a campaign to bring charges of genocide against the Crown of England, the government of Canada, the Anglican Church in Canada and other guilty parties.
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>>The Mohawk Institute inquiry is held under the auspices of the Onkwehon:we (Mohawk) Nation and Kevin Annett (Rawennatshani) of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, who has our full authority and protection.
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>>This email is hosted by Jeremiah Jourdain on behalf of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) and Kevin Annett - Eagle Strong Voice (adopted May 2004 into the Anishinabe nation by Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind).
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If Obama Is Serious About American Indians, He'll Offer More Than Eagle Feathers
By Andrew Cohen

Dec 2 2011, 10:15 AM ET3

It's a nice gesture to reassure tribes about their religious use of eagle feathers -- but if that's the best the Administration can do for American Indians, it's not enough

Reuters
President Barack Obama meets with American Indian leaders this afternoon in Washington but, on the law front, it's already been a tough year for the tribes. In February, the president nominated Arvo Mikkanen, an Ivy-educated Native American, to a spot as a federal trial judge in Oklahoma. He would be only the third documented Native American federal judge in U.S. history. But GOP Senator Tom Coburn immediately blocked the nomination and, nine months later, Mikkanen still hasn't received a hearing, much less a floor vote. Worse, no one in Washington seems to care.

Then, in June, the United States Supreme Court stuck it to American Indian interests in a case styled United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation. In a 7-1 decision, the Court ruled that the U.S. could withhold from lawyers for the Jicarilla Apache Nation hundreds of documents that may be relevant to the tribe's long-standing mismanagement claims against the feds. Justice Samuel Alito justified the decision by reminding his audience that the relationship between the feds and the tribe was less about trusteeship and more about power.

In the first instance, Congress failed to do right by Native American interests. When asked why he so quickly denounced the Mikkanen nomination, Sen. Coburn told reporters in February, "I know plenty." Yet he has never had to explain what he knows or why it is enough to sink Mikkanen's candidacy. In the second instance, it's the judicial branch that has failed American Indian iterests. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out the High Court majority in Jicarilla. She said that Justice Alito's opinion "rests on false factual and legal premises."

So what is the other branch of government, the executive branch, doing for Native Americans as 2011 comes to a close? Is the White House pushing for Mikkanen to get a hearing? No. Is it pushing Congress to help change the procedural rules in Indian trust cases so that American Indian litigants can have more access to federal documents that pertain to their claims against federal officials? No. Those things would involve the expenditure of political capital -- and the administration has shown repeatedly its unwillingness to spend in this area.

Instead, the Obama Administration is looking inward. This week came news that five American Indians have been named to an Indian Trust Commission that will help suggest reforms to the odious federal management of Indian trusts. The effort is expected to take two years, at a minimum, and of course won't be the final word. And, today, President Obama will go to the Interior Department to participate in the White House Tribal Conference, to which over 550 Native American tribes were invited. He will no doubt talk about his Administration's devotion to Indian interests.

Devotion which is quite underwhelming. Just last month, for example, the Justice Department announced that it is "considering whether to adopt a formal policy that would memorialize and clarify its practice of enforcing federal wildlife laws in a manner that respects and protects the ability of members of federally recognized tribes to use eagle feathers and other bird feathers for cultural and religious purposes." Amid the rubble of Jicarilla and Mikkanen, the feds want to quietly reassure Tribal members that they won't be prosecuted as often for dealing in eagle feathers.

Here is the full text of the government's proposal. The deadline for comments is today. The Justice Department specifically asked for comment on whether a formal new written policy would "help allay the concerns of tribal members" or at least "provide useful clarification" to them about the government's attempt at delicate balancing here between religious practices and wildlife protection. And there's another, related proposal, which aims "to develop a joint federal and tribal training program on enforcement of such laws."

Such laws as the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Enacted in 1940, it was amended in 1962 to include an exception that allowed for Native Americans to use eagles or eagle parts in their religious ceremonies. It is illegal for anyone to kill or harm these protected birds. But the market still exists for their feathers. Earlier this year, for example, the 10th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals refused to extend the religious exemption to a non-Indian who claimed he had a right to eagle feathers based upon his own American Indian religious beliefs.

From the Denver Post piece on that ruling:

Federal regulations provide the exception only to members of recognized tribes who obtain permits and feathers from the National Eagle Repository in Commerce City, which stores feathers and parts harvested from dead eagles by wildlife authorities.

Demand exceeds supply, and the waits for feathers or eagle parts are long. The feathers and parts aren't transferable, except when handed down from a generation to the next, by one Indian to another.
So what do Native American voices, or at least voices that study Native American issues, think about all the Justice Department's overture? Kenny Frost, an Elder and Sun Dance Chief with the Ute Nation, told me Thursday that he is in favor of the new rules so long as they bring a swifter pace to the legitimate eagle feather trade. "There needs to be clarification" about who can be prosecuted, Frost said, because the uncertainty helps cause great delay in getting feathers to Native people who want them for their choreographic healing ceremonies.

"It takes six or seven years to go through the Repository," Frost said. "The wait creates a hardship. There needs to be a much more streamlined process so that Native Americans who wish to do so can obtain eagle feathers or eagle parts." Frost plans to make that point in comments he intends to file with the Justice Department. "The people who sell eagle feathers for profit are the ones who ought to be prosecuted," Frost says. "We don't take lightly when we hold or carry feathers. We value them greatly."

Professor Tim Pleasant, co-director of an Indian Law program at the University of Tulsa College of Law, frames the issue in a way in which many more of us can related. When I asked I asked him to tell me if the Justice Department's move was good or bad, he replied:

Especially since, historically, the Department of Justice hasn't had a lot of respect for Indian religion and culture, the fact that it is pro-actively reaching out to Native Americans while shaping policy on this issue is very much to the credit of the Department. Of course, not every Tribe sees this issue the same way... to some, the use of eagle feathers, claws, etc., is more important than to others. But it is important to realize just how sensitive this issue can be. Asking an Indian to go to the federally controlled Repository to get eagle feathers can be like telling the Jewish side of my family that they would have to go get a federally approved menorah with which to celebrate Hanukkah, or requiring a Catholic to get a government-supplied rosary... and making them wait three years or more to get them.

Meanwhile, G. William Rice, a co-director of the Native American Law Center, took a broader view. Of the Justice Department's effort, he wrote

Perhaps the most positive statements in this release are the suggestions that the Interior and Justice Departments are willing to work separately with each Tribe, Band, and Nation on enforcement matters so that their particular practices will be respected. That respectful cooperative approach should be encouraged, and every effort made to do so in a manner that meets the minimum standards expressed in the recent United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

My call to the Office of Tribal Justice was not returned. I meant to ask Christopher Chaney, the deputy director there, whether the feds believe that merely reducing the current policy to writing will solve the problems Frost identified. Formalizing existing policy isn't a dramatic break from the past, after all, and the long-term solution here rests with Congress. Native Americans who want eagle feathers for religious services should not have to wait "six or seven years" to get them. But will the DoJ's bookkeeping move really help fix that? I am not sure.

Congress is no friend of the American Indian. Surely this Supreme Court isn't, either. And there was a need to clarify the rules on eagle feathers. But is this really the best President Obama can do? I hope an American Indian leader says to President Obama today at the White House: "Don't worry so much about adopting 'a formal policy that memorializes' common prosecution practice; worry more about why there are still only two federal judges in American history who were or are of Native American descent."

That, and not the trading of eagle feathers, is the sorrowful American Indian story of 2011.

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