Issues & News From STSSA Family & Freinds

Issues & News From STSSA Family & Freinds
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
April 14, 2011

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* Update from the Field
* Send a Mother's Day Card to Help the Buffalo
* TAKE ACTION NOW! Please Keep the Pressure On!
* By the Numbers
* Last Words
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* Update from the Field
It is a great pleasure to see these bulls roam freely north of Yellowstone's boundary in the Gardiner Basin. The new habitat access begs the implementation of wildlife safe passage, to keep buffalo and motorists out of harms way on the highway! BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
Thanks to your tireless support and countless actions over these many years, wild buffalo are gaining a little of their native ground back. Last week, Montana and Yellowstone National Park announced that they will finally allow Yellowstone buffalo to roam portions of their native Montana habitat that they have been refused for too many generations. Buffalo are already benefiting, and have been using this newly accessed habitat for the past few weeks. According to the agencies, the plan is ultimately to allow an unlimited number of buffalo - bull groups and family groups - to use this landscape.
While this development is certainly a positive step, it is not a perfect solution. The buffalo will only be allowed upon these critical lands from January 1 through May 1. Outside this four-month window, buffalo will be aggressively hazed back into Yellowstone. National Forest lands within this zone of tolerance will be open to hunting, and the number of hunting tags will be greatly increased.
Buffalo baffle? BFC was there to witness how this group of bull buffalo would react to this newly installed cattle guard at the southern end of Yankee Jim Canyon on Highway 89. As we learned, it was not something that they were willing to cross, but where there's a will, there's a way. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
Cattle guards and fencing have been and will continue to be put in place to try to keep buffalo from migrating further north than Yankee Jim Canyon, which could prove dangerous--to buffalo and other wildlife. Yankee Jim Canyon is what Governor Schweitzer calls the "drop dead zone." Montana has stated that there will be no hazing of buffalo that make it north of this new line: they will all be shot.
Even with a cattle guard, buffalo are not so easily fooled, and they quickly found a way around the cattle guard. BFC volunteers were highly concerned that these mighty bulls would be shot if they ventured further north into the "drop dead zone," so we gently persuaded them to change their direction and they lived to see another day. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
North of Yankee Jim Canyon is the Tom Miner Basin and lush Paradise Valley of the Yellowstone River - lush valley lands perfectly suited for buffalo. While these changes bring benefits to buffalo, they bring challenges as well. The agencies are hosting an open house tonight, and we are hoping to learn more details then, which we will share with you.
No girls allowed? These two buffalo cows are a little upset that they and their family members are constantly harassed and pushed off the same land that bulls are now allowed to roam. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
For the time being this new habitat access is only open to bull buffalo. Mixed groups - cows, elder matriarchs, yearlings, and other youngsters are being denied their right to roam. Family groups have been hazed by the hundreds every day for the past week.
These two DOL agents were unable to haze this large group of wild buffalo the way they wanted to. The buffalo had their own ideas of what their day was going to entail, and being hazed was not one of them. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
This week, the Montana Department of Livestock has been doing most of the hazing without help from Yellowstone National Park, who nearly always participates. Two DOL agents attempted to haze nearly 300 buffalo into Yellowstone Wednesday morning, but the buffalo were feeling the good spring grasses and giving the DOL a well deserved hard time. When we asked one DOL agent why the Park Service wasn't involved, he simply said "they're busy doing other things."
Here, DOL agent Mark Anderson makes a call on his cell phone while hounding a very pregnant buffalo. We heard him say words like "emergency buffalo situation!" and "buffalo not cooperating!" The DOL were on their own today, and the buffalo gave them a great challenge. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
While things are certainly moving in a more positive direction for some buffalo, there remain nearly 660 wild buffalo trapped inside the Yellowstone buffalo trap, and their fate remains uncertain. Yellowstone officials are currently stating that they intend to release the buffalo later in the spring, but slaughter is still a possibility, and calving season is barely two weeks away. With calving season only a couple weeks away, some baby buffalo will undoubtedly be born into a world of captivity.
BFC patrols are keeping a close eye on the buffalo, documenting hazing operations, monitoring the traps, talking with locals and visitors, roving the highways, and warning traffic of buffalo in the roads day and night. As the spring tide flows and the days lengthen, volunteers are working overtime in the field, in the policy arena, and on the legal front. We are making slow but steady progress for the buffalo because of you and your never-ending support. Thank you for staying the course; the buffalo are gaining ground.
Roam Free!
~Stephany
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* Send a Mother's Day Card to Help the Buffalo
Buffalo Field Campaign is happy to announce the return of our immensely popular Mother's Day card fundraiser. With the recent passing of barb abramo, BFC's Office Coordinator and one of two women who gave incredible amounts of time, energy, and passion to make this project possible, we weren't sure if we would be able to offer cards this year. But when Kathleen Stachowski--the artist whose vision and dedication gave rise to this popular fundraiser--told us that she wanted to make a special card this year, we knew that it would be the perfect way to honor barb's memory.
For just $15 Buffalo Field Campaign will send one of these beautifully designed and hand-colored cards to the recipient of your choice. Please use this link to view and order cards and remember that the deadline for ordering is Monday, April 25. We will send the cards to arrive by Mother's Day, May 8.
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* TAKE ACTION NOW! Please Keep the Pressure On!
1. Please contact your Members of Congress requesting that they co-sign a letter to National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis encouraging Yellowstone National Park to find habitats for wild buffalo to roam. Take Action Now!
2. Ask Governor Schweitzer to Veto Bad Buffalo Bills. Several bills that would cause great harm to wild bison and bison restoration efforts in Montana have moved through the Montana Legislature. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has hinted that he may veto these bad bills. Americans everywhere should contact Governor Schweitzer asking him to veto HB 318, SB 174, SB 184, and SB 212. Take Action Now!
3. Don't Let APHIS Harm More Bull Buffalo! APHIS has not returned to the West Yellowstone area for nearly two weeks. Please keep the pressure on them to leave bull buffalo alone! If you haven't contacted APHIS yet, please learn more and take action, and help us spread the word!
Watch BFC's video
Contact FWP's Wildlife Chief Ken McDonald and urge him to revoke APHIS's permit
Contact Becky Frey, APHIS, and tell her she is not welcome to molest bulls buffalo on our public lands or anywhere else!
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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 3,600 individual buffalo.
2010-2011 Total Buffalo Killed: 221
2010-2011 Government Capture: 659
2010-2011 Government Slaughter: 0
2010-2011 Died In Government Trap: 3
2010-2011 Miscarriage in Government Trap: 1
2010-2011 State & Treaty Hunts: 211
2010-2011 Quarantine: 0
2010-2011 Shot by Agents: 2
2010-2011 Highway Mortality: 5
2009-2010 Total: 7
2008-2009 Total: 22
2007-2008 Total: 1,631
* Total Since 2000: 3,932*
*includes lethal government action, trap-related fatalities, quarantine, hunts, highway mortality
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* Last Words
“It’s a native species, for God’s sake. You cannot be more Montana than the buffalo.”
~ Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, as quoted by the Associated Press this month.
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; you'll see them here!
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To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
Hundreds of people forced from homes in Peguis First Nation due to rising waters
About 515 people have now been forced out of their houses on the Peguis First Nation due to rising waters, said officials Wednesday.
Crews were also rushing to sandbag homes.
Peguis First Nations Chief Glenn Hudson said that as of Wednesday morning, about 150 homes were either flooded or completely surrounded by water. He said 40 roads in the community have also been washed out by the rising Fisher River.
Residents were being moved to Winnipeg or Gimli.
The Red Cross has initiated a phone line to register evacuees. Evacuees are encouraged to call 1-888-662-3211.
The province also released a new flood update on Wednesday, which said a forecast for the Red River's crest levels have been "reduced slightly" but levels are still expected to be "somewhat above 2009 levels for all points on the river."
Flood watches are currently in effect on the Pembina River, near Rock Lake, and along the Souris River, near Melita.
Approximately 55 provincial highways are affected by flooding and are closed or open only to local traffic, said the province. About another 300 municipal roads are also closed.
Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton said there have never been so many roads under water and so many rivers at capacity at the same time in the province.
Part of it is due to extensive overland flooding and ice jams, as well as frozen streams and ditches.
"I want to stress this is a very significant flood," said Ashton.
Provincial officials advised that driving on closed or water-covered roads can be hazardous.
In Winnipeg, officials said fewer homes will need to be sandbagged. It's now been reduced from 560 to 129. Most of the homes needing sandbags are on Kingston Crescent, Scotia Street and Glenwood Crescent. Volunteers are still needed to help. Anyone interested in assisting is asked to call 311.

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Bay Area Indian Calendar, April 13, 2011
Thanks to American Indian Contemporary Arts for the calendar. More info is linked to the Bay Native Circle page at www.kpfa.org. To include events in calendar send text info to Janeen Antoine or post on the Bay Area Native American Indian Network.
Bay Native Circle at kpfa 94.1 airs Weds 2–3 pm with rotating hosts Lakota Harden; Janeen Antoine; Morningstar Gali and Ras K’Dee. Thanks for listening to BNC, live, podcast, online and archived for 2 weeks, and made possible through your public support. Please if you can, support kpfa.org with a financial contribution. Thank you.

UPCOMING
Thurs, Apr 14, 6:30 pm, Russell Means: Patriarchy, the Ultimate Conspiracy, Matriarchy, The Ultimate Solution. Tressider Oak Lounge, Stanford University. Presented by Sioux Awareness Week in Honor of SAIO’s 40th Anniversary. rsvp FB.
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 5:00 p.m. Alison Owings speaks about her book Indian Voices at UC Berkeley. All welcome. Books will be available for sale. UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, California.
Thurs, Apr 14, The Protect Glen Cove Committee and the Board of Directors of Sacred Sites Protection and Rights of Indigenous Tribes (SSP&RIT) have received information that leads us to believe that the desecration of Glen Cove will begin on April 15, and are calling for an Assembly of all Warriors on April 14, at SSP&RIT headquarters, 400 Keats Drive in Vallejo. Be prepared to actively protest this assault at Glen Cove. You will be camping out at the Sogorea Te site; bring blankets, sleeping bags, tents, food; mess kit, clothing to protect you from chemical attacks (just in case), also cameras, video cameras, walkie-talkies, cell phone chargers. Bring you sacred medicine and join our prayer circle at Glen Cove for this non-violent peaceful project with no drugs/weapons. If you can't make the trip, make a phone call and keep the phone lines of GVRD and the City of Vallejo busy. GVRD: 707.648-4600 Vallejo Mayor: 707.648-4377. Those wiling to face this assault email contact info to secretary.ssp_rit@yahoo.com for instructions. For text notification email your phone number to [glencove@riseup.net]. All support is needed. FMI: www.protectglencove.org.
Apr 15, Jul 15 and Aug 19, 4-6 pm. American Indian Care Awareness Days: food, games, prizes, raffle, appointments, eye exams, diabetes screening, and blood pressure control info. Native American Health Center, 2950 International Blvd., Oakland. FMI: Dawn Lulua-Claxton, 510-535-4471.
Fri Apr 15 (10 pm) through Sun Apr 17 (6 pm), SOMARTS sponsor "The Good Look Festival” integrates media literacy and environmental justice solutions through alternative pedagogical practices. Featuring Michael Franti, Benjamin and Peter Bratt, community, youth, educators, artists, filmmakers, and organizers with three levels of advocacy -- international, local, and personal with films, panels, and Q&As; at CCA Oakland, and Mission High School in SF. ***Includes a State of the Environmental Union address, Youth Dance (Dance for the Earth), Educator Awards, and 1st annual Green Comedy Jam, Contemporary Oral Traditions, Women's Empowerment, Browning the Green Movement, EcoArt Lesson Planning/ Empower Point Presentations, Sustainable Administrative Practice. Good Look Film Festival: Two Spirits, La Mission, Reel Injun, Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Girl Trouble, Me Facing Life, Copyright Criminals and special panel including DJs, Rappers, Digital and street artists, illustrators, and graphic designers.
Sat, Apr 16, Healing Pole Ceremony, at Indian Canyon near Hollister. A carved healing pole will be unveiled and celebrated. The pole, a 30' cedar log cedar log weighing tons and carved in SF by Shane Eagleton, was once a boom (or bumper float) separating ammunition ships at Port Chicago during WWII. A sister pole is at Ground Zero in NYC. They were "boom" float logs, once chained together to separate ships at Port Chicago, scene of a huge catastrophe in WWII days when an ammunition ship exploded - vaporizing the ship and killing scores of African American low-level sailors who had been
relegated to stevedore jobs in those racist days. FMI: Gallery, also on FB: Healing Pole, and follow Kanyon’s photos on Twitter @IndianCanyon_CA.
Sat. Apr. 16, 10 am - 6 pm, The Indigenous Women's Alliance of Mills College invite all to the Mills College Powwow, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland. Gourd Dancing 11:00, Grand Entry 12:00, Retreat 6:00. Contest Dancing, All Ages, All Categories (Adults 18+, Teens 13-17, Juniors 6-12, Tiny Tots 5 and Under). Host Southern / Northern Drums! Native Arts and Crafts, Indian Tacos, Danza Azteca. Vendors contact: Jean Wong, ethnic@mills.edu, 510.430.2080 or Dr. Melinda Micco, melinda@mills.edu, 510.430.3324
Sat, Apr 16, 1:30-3:30 pm, Lecture: The Two Worlds of Ishi, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, 5250 Aero Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. 707.579-3004.
Sat-Sun, Apr 16-17 Indian Arts and Crafts Market, California State Indian Museum, 2618 K St., Sacramento. Native artisans come from all over California to participate in this event. Enjoy shopping for artwork, baskets, gourds, jewelry, soapstone and elk horn carvings, drums, and much, much more. Regular museum admission fees apply. (916) 324-0971 or www.parks.ca.gov/indianmuseum.
Sun, Apr 17, 10th Annual Spring Celebration, Maidu Museum, 1970 Johnson Ranch Dr., Roseville. Opening blessing, honoring elders, Native California dance groups, cultural heritage demonstrations, craft fair, guided tours of historic site, children's activities and storytelling. 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (916) 774-5934 or www.roseville.ca.us/indianmuseum.
Thurs, Apr 21, 7:30- 9:30pm. The 13 Grandmothers’ screening of their new film "For the next 7 Generations", California Theater, 2113 Kittredge St, Berkeley.tickets 15$ advance, 20 at door. The grandmothers will share their mission and introduce the film that documents the coming together of the Grandmothers Council. A short Q & A follows. FMI: www.grandmotherscouncil.org. Originating from all corners of the world, these 13 wise women elders, shamans and medicine women have formed an alliance for a peaceful and sustainable planet. They have been traveling the planet holding council and ceremony together since 2004. Their wisdom shines through these powerful times. Join the grandmothers for these very special events as they share their ancestral knowledge for these modern times.
Fri, April 22, 9 am- 3 pm. Workshop with Grandmothers, Humanist Hall, 411 28th st. Oakland. Tickets: $100 (includes vegetarian lunch). Enjoy intimate time with the Grandmothers as they open up to spirit, sharing their messages with us. advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com. FMI: www.grandmotherscouncil.org. Originating from all corners of the world, these 13 wise women elders, shamans and medicine women have formed an alliance for a peaceful and sustainable planet. They have been traveling the planet holding council and ceremony together since 2004. Their wisdom shines through these powerful times. Join the grandmothers for these very special events as they share their ancestral knowledge for these modern times.
Fri, April 22, 7-11 pm, SNAG Earthday Celebration, Galeria De La Raza, 2857 24th Street, SF. ($5 suggested donation). The celebration includes Artists Exhibition: Richard Castaneda, Rene Castro, Nizhoni Ellenwood, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Rye Purvis, Anthony Sul, Cy Wagoner, Peps 357, Merisha Lemmer. Eco Fashion Show: Amelia Berrumen (Itzpapalotl), Laryssa Verdussen and Rachel Znerold (Loft 1513). Performances by: The Bluntest, Sista Hailstorm, Linda Koffman, Daygots, Guerilla Queens, Backwordz Medicine, Ras K’dj & SNAG youth Dj’s. Traditional Song and Dance by: Ta’c’wees (Traditional Acapella), Dancing Feathers (Youth Inter-tribal Dancers). Fresh Squeezed Juice Bar & Youth Art Exhibit on the new SNAG bio-bus. Native Arts/Crafts Vendors. For vendor applications, email snagmagazine@yahoo.com. FMI: http://snagmagazine.tumblr.com/. RSVP: FB: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155472117847535&ref=ts.
Sat, Apr 30, 10 am - sundown, Sofia Yohema 2nd Annual Gathering, Honoring Our Daughters, at Lake Yosemite, Merced. California Traditional Dancers, Arts/Crafts, Youth Activities, youth hand games tourney, dinner, storytelling, raffle, prizes, NO camping. Demo booths for baskets, clapper sticks, berrys, etc. Free, No drugs, tobacco, alcohol or pets. FMI: Johnny Clay, 209-230-0192, johnnyclayart@gmail.com.
Sunday, May 1 · 10 am - 6 pm, UC Berkeley Powwow, Location TBA. Headstaff: MC Tom Phillips, AD Earl Neconie, HM Marc Keka, HW Aurora Mamea, Honor Guard Joseph Smith, Head Gourd Erik Kimple, Host Northern All Nations Singers, Host Southern Red Buffalo, Outgoing Princess Juliet Small, Contest Tabulator Kaylene Kimple. Vendors contact Ruth Hopper at 510-642-6613 or redcorn@berkeley.edu. FMI: Bridget Wilson, 510-643-7902, naoc@berkeley.edu.
May 6-8, 2011. Stanford Powwow, held every Mother’s Day Weekend in the Eucalyptus Grove on Stanford campus. Open to the Public | Rain or Shine. Donation for admission. FMI: stanfordpowwow.org.
Fri, May 13 - Sun, May 15. 3rd Annual Pit River "Big Time" Powwow, Pit River Casino, 20265 Tamarack Ave Burney. map and directions. ***MC - Fred Hill Sr., Arena Director: Carlos Calica, Head Man: Ardell Scalplock, Head Lady: Henrietta Scalplock, Host Drum: North Bear - Lame Deer, MT, Invited Drum: Southern Express - WA, Host Local Drum: Northern Eagle - Chico, CA Special Contests: Sweep the Tee Pee, Clown Dance, Chicken Dance, Hand Drum Contest, more TBA.
Sat, May 14, 5am - Noon, 12th Annual Bloody Island Memorial, In honor of the Pomo Indian people that perished and those that survived the Bloody Island Massacre of 1850. To Forgive the Oppressor is the Medicine that heals. The Sunrise Ceremony starts at 5:30 am. Potluck Breakfast 8 am: speakers and dancers at Oddfellows Hall, Upper Lake. Cleanup of Oddfellows Hall: 12 Noon(Volunteers welcome). Directions: From Upper Lake, go 1.5 miles east on Hwy 20, turn right at Reclamation Road, go 2.5 miles and park on the side of the Road. FMI: Clayton Duncan 707.274-6788.
Sat/Sun, May 13-14, California Indian Market, Heritage park, Black Oak Casino, Tuolumne, CA. Two day event celebrates the 10th anniversary of the market, FMI: Jennifer D. Bates, 209.928.9378, jbates@blackoakcasino.com.
Fri, May 20, 8 pm, Dancing Earth's "Of Bodies Of Elements", one night only, at the San Francisco International Arts Festival, at Marine Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter, San Francisco. For the 2011 San Francisco International Arts Festival, SFIAF will put Tickets on sale Tuesday Mar 1 at www.sfiaf.org offering a limited amount of tickets at the Special Early Bird Rate of $12, (less then HALF the regular ticket price!). Only about 5% of the seats (maybe 30 seats) are being sold at this rate so jump on it if you can!
Sat, Jun 18, 12 noon - 3 pm, 13th Annual Native Contemporary Arts Festival, with music, dance, artist tables, free family event. Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. Sponsors Yerba Buena Arts & Events, American Indian Contemporary Arts. Yerba Buena Gardens is between Mission and Howard Street and 3rd/4th Streets in San Francisco. FMI: www.ybgf.org or 415.543-1718.
Sat, Jun 18, 5-11pm, Traditional California Big Time Gathering. The Ohlone Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe hosts a ceremony on traditional Ohlone land, features dance and song groups from five supporting California tribes: Elem Indian Colony, Pit River Maidu, Shingle Springs Miwok, Stewarts Point Kashaya Band of Pomo, and Manchester Pomo. Programs are in both in the Yerba Buena Center Forum and Yerba Buena Gardens between Mission and Howard Street and 3rd/4th Streets in San Francisco. Presented by the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival in association with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, the Contemporary Native Arts Festival, and organized by the Ohlone Profiles Project.
EXHIBITS
Extended Voices: Prints from Crow's Shadow Press, In collaborations with Tamarind Master Printer Frank Janzen, the exhibition features a selection of prints reflecting a range of techniques practiced by established and emerging Native artist artsits. Including Rick Bartow, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Lavadour, Kay Walkingstick, Joe Feddersen, Marie Watt, Phillip John Charette, Gerald McMaster, Wendy Red Star and others. April 4 through June 12, CN Gorman Museum, UC Davis. CN Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall, UC Davis. Mon-Fri 12 - 5pm & Sun 2 - 5pm, http://gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu/ FMI: cngorman@ucdavis.edu 530.752-6567.
California Indians: Making a Difference, The California Museum, 1020 O St., Sacramento. This exhibit is the first statewide project to emphasize Native voices in California. Visitors will be immersed in California Indian culture through displays of California Indian artifacts, oral histories, photographs, maps, and contemporary art. FMI: 916.653-7524 or www.californiamuseum.org.
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, February 19, 2011 - May 8, 2011, featuring more than 100 objects, drawn primarily from Mexican national collections with additional loans from over 25 museums, is presented at the de Young Museum. Included in the exhibition are colossal heads, a large-scale throne, and monumental stelae in addition to precious small-scale vessels, figures, adornments, and masks. Olmec brings together for the first time new finds and monuments that have never been seen by American audiences and reveals new scholarship on Olmec culture and artifacts. At the De Young Museum in SF.
The Latin@ Printmakers Exhibition: Grabados de Paz y Guerra, Jerry Adams Gallery, Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street, near Berkeley BART. Curated by Juana Alicia Araiza, the show comments on war, violence, immigration, international movements of resistance and peace and runs through April 30. The Jerry Adams Gallery is on the first floor of the college, and the artwork is visible through plate glass windows on Center Street. The six-week exhibit is part of an eighteen-month long project: Sorrows of War: Struggles for Peace, which includes a lecture series, exhibits and curricular offerings. Featured Artists: Ester Hernández, Juan Fuentes, Tirso Araiza, Artemio Rodriguez, Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Emmanuel C. Montoya, Gabriel Martinez. FMI: Juana Alicia juanaaliciam@gmail.com.
New World Border, Artists Respond to US/Mexico Border Wall. Thurs, Mar 3 – Sat, Apr 30, Reception: Sat, Mar 12, 3:30-5:30 pm. La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, 510-849-2568. Gallery: Mon - Fri 10-4 and by appt. The wall, now being constructed across the length of the US/Mexico border, is like a knife cutting off neighbors, wildlife, indigenous people, and families, inflaming hatred and contributing to an atmosphere of vigilantism and oppression. Responding are esteemed Latino Poster Movement artist Malaquias Montoya, Black Panther Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, Kearny Street Workshop icon Nancy Hom, New York political illustrator Frances Jetter, California Indian Art Movement co-founder Frank LaPena, and many other artists. Exhibit organizers: Francisco Dominguez, Art Hazelwood, Doug Minkler.
NMAI Events: Small Spirits: Dolls from the National Museum of the American Indian, Mar 5 - Feb 12, 2012, Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows, Mar 19 - Sep 5, 2011 Both at George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY. Artist Talk: Margarete Bagshaw: Three Generations of Pushing Boundaries, Saturday, Mar 12, 2 - 3 pm, Room 4018-19, NMAI, Washington, D.C. Live Webcast. Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection, Washington, D.C. The exhibit includes pieces by Marie Wyatt (Seneca), James Lavadour (Walla Walla), Alan Michelson (Mohawk), Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Judith Lowry (Hammawi Band Pit River/Mountain Maidu/Washo/Scottish-Irish/Australian), James Luna (Puyukitchum [Luiseño]), and Catherine Nelson-Rodriguez (Luiseño/Wailaki/Choctaw). For more information call (202) 633-1000 or visit www.nmai.si.edu.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/OPPORTUNITIES
National Museum of the American Indian's Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program Accepting Applications for Artist Leadership Program. Indigenous artists of the Western Hemisphere or Hawai'i will receive career, leadership, and artistic training on a funded ten-day trip to the museum in Washington, D.C., and will then receive $7,000 to complete a project in their home communities. Deadline: May 2, 2011.
For 19 years, the SF Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant Program (CEG) has provided grants to individual artists and arts organizations in San Francisco's diverse communities. In this critical time of changing economics and demographics in San Francisco, it is important that we clearly understand how best to serve you and other San Francisco artists and arts providers. The SFAC seeks surveys completed by CEG grantees and applicants. Surveys completed by 5pm on Tuesday, April 26th are eligible to be entered in a contest to win $100. Please help us by completing the following 15 minute survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NYB7ZMK.
The School of Art at Arizona State University seeks qualified candidates for a year long, non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor position for the academic year 2011-12, pending funding approval this May to teach survey courses (Native Art of North American, Southwest Indian Art and/or other appropriate areas) and seminars. Requires a PhD or ABD status, college or university teaching experience beyond a Teaching Assistantship, and evidence of ongoing research and writing. Teaching load, at least 3/2, to be negotiated. Submit a letter of interest, a CV and contact information for three professional references to Kate C. Duncan Professor, Art History School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1505 Ph: 480.433-0397, 480.423-9314 Fax: 480.965-8338.
The Winnemem Wintu are working on two very important efforts right now and seek your letters of support. First, this summer they will hold the Bałas Chonas, or Coming of Age Ceremony, for the young woman who will become the next spiritual leader of the Tribe. They need support in getting a stretch of McCloud River temporarily closed this summer to create the privacy the Tribe needs to bring their next leader into womanhood. The second effort is to bring their salmon home from New Zealand. A professor from New Zealand notified the Tribe that salmon eggs from McCloud River Salmon were transported to New Zealand and miraculously established a healthy salmon fishery. They now need the cooperation of the US and California State Governments to establish their own hatchery from the salmon to be returned by the Maori. FMI: www.winnememwintu.us.
The 2011 Carol Jorgensen Scholarship for Environmental Stewardship awards $1,000 to a full time student pursuing an undergraduate degree in an environmental stewardship discipline, and honors Carol Jorgensen, Tlingit from the Yandestake Village and Eagle/Killer Whale Fin House of Klukwan whose service to her family, community, country, and Mother Earth was an inspiration for all. A complete application is due June 3, 2011. sent via e-mail (jones.luke@epa.gov), fax (202.564.0298), or regular mail to: SAIGE Carol Jorgensen Memorial Scholarship for Environmental Stewardship c/o Luke Jones, American Indian Environmental Office (2690-M) US EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460.
The Alcoa Global Service Leaders Scholarship Program invites h.s. students (grades 9-11) anywhere in the world to apply for full scholarships up to $5,000 to attend ICL's 2011 Summer Academy, a comprehensive, two-week hands-on summer leadership program for students at Dwight International School in Vancouver Island, Canada. Students will learn about sustainable leadership and will master key leadership skills through workshops, team-building exercises, games, and excursions.
Galería de la Raza invites Native American and Indigenous artists living in the Bay Area to participate in three FREE 5-hour program planning and grantwriting workshops. Galería will subsequently award at least 3 commissions between $250 and $1500 to artists working in all disciplines to create and stage innovative community-building projects that will be presented at Galería during 2011-2012. For detailed information of the workshops and commissioning process, go to www.galeriadelaraza.org/. Deadline Apr 20.
Friendship House Case Manager, Nick Volpe, will compete in the ‘Devil Mountain Double Century’ bike race on April 30, 2011. He will ride 206 miles and climb over 18,600 feet in just one day! He has generously offered to raise funds for the Friendship House in conjunction with the competition. To learn more or make a contribution to this exciting project please visit our website at www.friendshiphousesf.org. Thanks in advance for your support.
Request for Proposals - Honor the Earth’s “Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities” for summer granting cycle. Ddln: April 15, 2011 FMI: HonorGrants@honorearth.org.
Sign up to volunteer for the Stanford Powwow! We need a lot of volunteers to make the Powwow run smoothly. Sign up for a shift and get a Stanford Powwow T-shirt. Email supowwow.volunteers@gmail.com to volunteer.
Save Your Home From Foreclosure, California has 4 NEW Housing Finance programs that can provide direct assistance to help prevent foreclosure. Unemployment Mortgage Assistance Program (UMA) - Provides up to 6 months free mortgage payments for unemployed homeowners. Mortgage Reinstatement Assistance Program (MRAP) - Provides up to $15,000 in mortgage payments for homeowners that have experienced a change in household circumstance which has led to default. Principal Reduction Program (PRP) - Provides funding to homeowners whose homes are now worth less than their mortgage. Transition Assistance Program (TAP) - Provides money for relocation costs in the event of a short sale or deed in lieu of foreclosure. To find out if you or someone you know is eligible for one of these federally funded programs click here. I encourage you to forward this e-mail to homeowners facing financial hardships. You may also contact my office at (510) 286-1400. My staff can assist you with information about foreclosure prevention programs or other state services. Nancy Skinner, Assemblymember 14th District, FMI: http://asmdc.org/members/a14/resources/item/2826-save-your-home-from-foreclosure?utm_source=email&utm_medium=eAlert&utm_campaign=Skinner_Keep_Your_Home
Alameda Co. Arts Commission now accepting submissions from Alameda County artists for 2 new opportunities. Professional artists who make two-dimensional or low-relief, wall-mounted artwork are invited to apply. FMI: (www.callforentry.org). Search the list for “Alameda County Arts Commission”. Complete application information available at http://acgov.org/arts/html/opportunities.html or call (510)208-9646 for a copy by mail.
Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues & Center for Urban Ethnography Summer Internship and Mentoring Program for UCB undegrads. Applications Due May 1. FMI: http://crnai.berkeley.edu/.
Kaiser Permanente in Oakland and Richmond are looking for qualified high school students, ages 15-20, for the LAUNCH (Learn About Unlimited New Careers in Health Care) High School Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) for paid summer work experience at Kaiser to underserved high school students. FMI: [ http://xnet.kp.org/hr/ca/youth/syep/index.htm ]http://xnet.kp.org/hr/ca/youth/syep/index.htm
The Community Spirit Awards, a national fellowship award of $5,000 from First Peoples Fund for American Indian artists to "practice their art." Nominate at First Peoples Fund or send a postcard with complete names and addresses of nominee and nominator to PO Box 2977, Rapid City, SD 57709. Applications will be mailed after May 31 nomination deadline. A national selection committee will select awardees.
A free 48 page Student Resource Guide is available from California Congresswoman Lucille Royball-Allard.
May 19-21, Third Annual Meeting of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association, at the Hyatt Regency, 1209 L Steet, Sacramento, CA, Host: Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis. The NAISA Council is accepting proposals for individual papers, panel sessions, or roundtables. Must be NAISA member. Limit submissions to one proposed session per person. FMI: naisa.org.
San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council newsletter, contact Kathryn Paddock, President, 415.887-9315.
Kawika Alfiche’s single "Ho`i Hou Mai" from the upcoming album: KALE`A (CD purchase for Mar release) at www.hawaiitunes.com for $3.00. Proceeds benefit Hawaiian Cultural Center in So. San Francisco. Tour begins in Mar.
Subscribe to News From Native California for a $22.50. Read a message from Margaret Dubin, Managing Editor of News.
Free Bay Area events: mybart.org, and sf.funcheap.com. Also in Oakland, kids eat for free. Arts calendars for Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley & Richmond 510arts.com.

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.
Radio:
Bay Native Circle, Wed 2-3 pm, kpfa.org 94.1 fm, McVicar / Antoine producers, 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:
Bay Area native community network.
Bay Area Indian Calendar.
News from Native California Quarterly newsletter. Submissions by email, or PO Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709 or fax 510.549-1889.
East 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, Mon, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, IFH, 523 International, Oakland. FMI: Janeen. *** Healthy potluck, donations requested per class. Lila wopila to IFH, Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, Community Futures Collective, AICA and AICRC for helping our tiyospaye learn Lakota. Thanks also to Willie who is temporarily away as he prepares for the coming of his expected twins with his partner Christina.
Medicine Warriors All Nations Dance Practice. Free, open to all. Thurs, 7-9 pm, IFH, 523 International, Oakland. Motto: Friendship, Fitness, Fun.
Gathering Tribes, 1412 Solano, Albany. 510.528-9038. Weekend artist presentations.
Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. 510.836-1955. Classes: Mon: 6:30-8:30 Lakota, Tues: 6-9 pm, Beading Circle w Gayle Burns, Drum, Aerobics. 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.
North Bay (To Sacramento)
CN Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall, UC Davis. cngorman@ucdavis.edu 530.752-6567.
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 basket weavers. Free.
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 Wed 7 pm meetings.
West Bay (SF Peninsula)
Learn powwow and honor songs. 1st Tuesday every month 7:30 - 9:00 pm, at LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, San Francisco. 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. For admission to see the Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
Admission for Olmec exhibit: $25 adults; $22 seniors 65+; students with ID $21; youth 6–17 $15. Members and children 5 and under are free; the first Tuesday of every month is free. Advance purchase: $5 discount on all tickets. Group (10 or more) $16 per person with advance purchase. 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 an open mind and willingness to learn. ($10/class for the month of Sept) 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.
South Bay (To Santa Cruz)
Four Directions Native American AA Meeting, 8 pm, Every Friday, 749 Story Rd, San Jose Info: Linda W, 408/564-3895.
Indian Canyon, Ceremonial Refuge/Facilities, w. of Hollister, ams@indiancanyon.org.
ANNUAL EVENTS
The “Annual Events” section aims to help community event planners avoid scheduling conflicts and plan in advance. For inclusion, email listings in same format as listings below. Wopila! Also, you can post your full events on the Bay Area Native American Indian Network.

Apr 30-May 1, CA Indian Market, San Juan Bautista, fourcornerstrading@msn.com.
Apr 30, Sofia Yohema Gathering, Lake Merced, johnnyclayart@gmail.com.
May 6-8, Mothers Day Weekend, Stanford Powwow, info@stanfordpowwow.org.
May, c. 15, Sat, CA Indian Market, Tuolumne, jbates@blackoakcasino.com.
May 21, Sat, 5th Annual Comedy Jam, San Jose, vmcloud@ihcscv.org.
Jun 5, Sat, Gathering of Honored Elders, Sacramento.
Jun 18, Sat, Native Contemp Arts Festival, SF, Janeen Antoine.
Jun 18, Ohlone Big Time, SF.
Jun 18, Sat, Storytelling Festival, Indian Canyon, Hollister, ams@indiancanyon.org. date to be revised.
Jun 25, 2nd Annual Richmond Powwow, Nichols Park, Courtney Cummings.
Jul 17, Sat, Kule Loklo Big Time, Point Reyes National Seashore, 415.464-5100.
JUL 23-24, Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council 16 Anniversary Pow Wow, Midge-Vendors 707.226-1234 , Eric 707.297-0580.
Sep 11, Sat, MWAN Powwow, Oakland, Gilbert Blacksmith.
Sep 18, Sat, AmInd Heritage Celeb/Big Time/Powwow/Market, San Jose, vmcloud@ihcscv.org.
Sep 18-19, Black NA Assn Powwow, CSU Hayward, Don Little Cloud.
Sep 24, 4th Fri, California Indian Day.
Oct 2-3, NAHC Pow Wow, Treasure Island, SF, Cathy Wisdom.
Oct 2, Tlingit Haida Gathering, Oakland 1st Congre. Church, Kathy Paddock.
Oct 3, Ohlone Gathering, Coyote Hills, Fremont, chvisit@ebparks.org.
Oct 9, IPD Pow Wow/Market, Berkeley, info@ipdpowwow.org.
Oct 11, IPD Sunrise Ceremony, Alacatraz, Morningstar Gali.
Oct 27-30, 26th Annual California Indian Conference, Amy Huberland, 530.898-5438.
Oct 30, Sat, Oakland Library N. A. Culture Day, rchacon@oaklandlibrary.org.
Nov 5-13, Sat, AIFF American Indian Film Festival, SF, filmfestival@aifisf.com.
Nov 13, AIFF Awards Night, SF, www.aifisf.com.
Nov 22-26, AIM National Conference, SF, Tony Gonzales.
Nov 25, Sunrise Ceremony, Alcatraz Island, Morningstar Gali.
Nov 26, Black Fri Shellmound Mall Protest, Emeryville, shellmoundwalk@yahoo.com
Dec 3-4, Sat/Sun, AICRC Powwow, Laney College, Oakland, Mary Trimble Norris. .
Jan 29, MWAN B-Day Party, IFH, Oakland, Gilbert Blacksmith.
Mar 12, Sat, Running is My High, Oakland, LauraM@nativehealth.org.
Mar 19, Sat, Taking Care of the Tribe NAAP Powwow 5, Horace Mann School, SF, sendawee@yahoo.com.
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Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
Native Americans file civil-rights complaint against Vallejo
Sacred Site Protection and Rights of Indigenous Tribes filed the complaint under California Government Code § 11135 alleging the city and the district are discriminating on the basis of race in building a planned park in Glen Cove near an ancient shell mound and burial ground.
An employee at the Attorney General's Office who said he can't be quoted in the press, said that such complaints are reviewed and sometimes investigated by whatever department is deemed appropriate.
With signs reading "No toilets on our sacred sites," "Don't dig up our ancestors" and others, the protesters restated their long-held objections to the plans.
District Maintenance and Development Manager Steve Pressley said the agency intends to restore the site to more closely resemble its original state -- razing a dilapidated mansion, removing non-native plants and replacing them with species indigenous to the area.
They also plan to install a parking lot and a restroom, which is the source of the objections, several protesters said.
District officials say they are putting the restroom and parking lot outside the recognized "culturally sensitive area." The protesters dispute this, saying the entire area likely contains human remains.
"We have worked closely with the member of the Wintun tribe, with the person designated as the most likely descendant for the area, and this plan has been approved," Pressley said. "We have been very diligent, since starting this process in 2003, about being sensitive to the Native Americans' concerns."
The protesters disagree.
Indian remains from Glen Cove were identified by the state Office of Historic Preservation and the Native American Heritage Commission in September 1986 as dating back to 1000 A.D. Indian supporter Bradley Angel argues that "the Glen Cove Shell Mound is a well-documented and culturally significant site ... spanning an area of 15 acres along the Carquinez Strait."
Some argue there may be no place on the continent that doesn't contain some sort of ancient remains. But Indian activist Norman "Wounded Knee" DeOcampo, of Vallejo, Bradley and others say plans to bulldoze a hill that may contain human remains is a violation of Native American civil rights, so they filed the complaint hoping the state will intervene.
"It's important to native and non-native peoples that the (district) not disturb a 3,500-year-old sacred site," DeOcampo said. "We hope people from all over will come pray with us on that day (that work begins on the site) to protect this sacred place."
Angel, of the San Francisco-based environmental group Greenaction, said he's "shocked at the injustice and disrespect that the city of Vallejo and the (district) have displayed toward native people that they would build a toilet and a parking lot on top of where people are buried."
He said civil rights lawsuits rarely gain "traction," so a civil complaint is the "tool" activists have developed. It's not just symbolic, since he and others will follow up with the Attorney General's Office, he said.
"We expect the state to follow its own civil rights laws," he said.
Work on the site "could start as early as Friday," Angel said, though Pressley said it won't because special training is still needed for the contractors but will start within the month.
Protesters "don't trust" district officials, Angel said, and are "watching Glen Cove at all times" in case work starts without warning. And unless some agreement is reached, the protesters will be there when it does. A gathering is planned Friday morning in any case, he said.
"People are coming from all over to Glen Cove in a spiritual way to stand with us in a peaceful manner," said Corrina Gould, an Ohlone who said she has "direct lineage" to the area's indigenous tribes. "Our ancient cemeteries aren't protected like modern ones are, and today we make a stand and say, 'No more! Our ancestors won't be pulled up. Our ancestors won't have a bathroom or a parking lot built over them!'"
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Global Governance and Assimilation
What a Strategy!
April 17, 2011
Assimilation is key to empire building and global governance. Military force alone will not do it.
One of the strongest factors in making and maintaining an empire is "cultural superiority". If the people being assimilated believe that their assimilators have a better way of life, they will gladly be assimilated. The modern Western culture of Materialism has superior technologies and economics that provide plenty of creature comforts. This ignores the violence, destruction and suffering caused by the capitalist system which is essentially anti Nature.
Murray Koffler, a pharmacist, started Shoppers Drug Marts, the biggest retail drug stores in Canada back in 1962. He became a very wealthy man. Murray is part of Toronto's affluent Jewish community and an ardent political Zionist. He raises and donates lots of money to help Israel where he also has a chain of drugstores called Super-Pharm. He is so popular in Israel that they named some nuclear research equipment for him, the Koffler accelerator which helps Israel develop their own nukes. Of course, Murray paid for the accelerator.
One day in the early 1980's, Murray noticed that in the city, many Indigenous were homeless and hungry. He wanted to do something to help assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian society. He wanted Indigenous to have the same opportunities to succeed in business as "other Canadians".
Murray then asked three of his most respected friends to help him set up an organization to help Indigenous become entrepreneurs and good capitalists. Paul Martin Jr., Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Maurice Strong had plenty of ideas for Murray.
Paul Martin Jr. now former Liberal Prime Minister, is the son of Paul Martin Sr. Paul Sr., was also a high ranking Liberal politician in Ottawa. He was a successful businessman and good friend of Sam Bronfman, an early Jewish immigrant who made a fortune on booze. Sam really didn't care if nonJews drank themselves to death.
Paul Sr. helped Sam to become the first Jew in the Canadian Senate. Sam owned big whiskey makers Seagrams and many other lucrative holdings. The Bronfmans are Zionists and donate a lot of money to Israel.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. is Sam's grandson. Edgar Sr., while head of the World Jewish Congress introduced the idea of the Israeli wall to separate, confine and harass Palestinians.
In 2008, Canada's Stockwell Day, then Conservative Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and Israel's Avi Dichter, Minister of Public Security, signed a security agreement.
They plan to "share technology, information and personnel in border management and security; correctional services and prisons; immigration; money laundering [mostly theirs]; organized crime; terrorist financing and trafficking in persons".
Edgar Jr. was interested in music and film so he bought Warner Music Group. In January 2011, Chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. was convicted and fined for insider trading in a French court.
Way to go, Ed! Are these guys also pretending to be mentors and role models for Indigenous youth??
Murray's third friend and advisor, the wizard and great manipulator, Maurice Strong is everywhere yet few people know about him. We've written about him more than once because he keeps cropping up everywhere. He has his hand in just about EVERYTHING including Indigenous matters of great concern.
Mau was also good friends with the Martins. He was an early mentor to Paul Jr. in the oil industry and an advisor to Prime Minister Paul in Ottawa. In some circles, Mau is known as a great environmentalist.
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business CCAB
According to their web site, the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business CCAB was started by Murray Koffler in 1984. Maurice Strong says that he was a co-founder in 1982 of then Canadian Council for Native Business. He was actively involved until 1987 and then remained quietly in the background for many years. He was on the board of governors in 2007. Mau has the ability to keep close tabs on many organizations and projects that he started. He is amazing in a very sinister way.
CCAB sponsors annual golf tournaments and hosts gala dinners in Toronto and Calgary. Is this their idea of "cultural superiority"?
As a non partisan non profit organization, their declared budget is just over $1million. They say they get no core funding from government. All their money comes from corporations, program and event sponsorships and membership dues.
Their membership is quite a list of who's who in Canadian business and includes Cameco, Shell, Enbridge Pipelines Inc., VIA Rail, the Great-West Life Assurance Company (part of Power Corp.), Raytheon Canada Ltd. and Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. Their Seven Generations patrons include companies like BMO Financial, IBM and Syncrude. Their boards of directors and governors include some big players in business and government.
CCAB claims, "This organization is but the conduit to the people and capital that leverage Aboriginal business in Canada".
CCAB seeks out promising young Indigenous people, latching onto them when they are still only in high school. CCAB then sponsors them through their education, about 85 students every year, grooming them for careers in business.
Isn't this just a systematic method for assimilating Indigenous people into the mainstream Canadian capitalist materialistic society? Assimilation was the colonial entities' plan from the outset.
CCAB People Profiles
Indigenous people of Turtle Island had a lively and extensive trade for millenia before Contact. Yet we didn't have money, banks or prisons. Individuals were not accumulating wealth. A leader had to make sure each person had mocassins before he did. It was a disgrace for him to have while any of his own people had not. This is the opposite of the capitalist system which encourages profiting and hoarding at the expense of everyone else.

Many Indigenous walk in two worlds. Can a person do this for the greater part of his/her life, and still be true to who he/she is? Is this not a recipe for disaster and complete madness?
Everyone has to do something to provide for their familes. For Indigenous people, the choices are often very limited. The land base to support traditional lifestyle is no longer there, having been taken over by colonialists who broke their word. Land, water and air are contaminated and polluted from resource extraction, energy develpment and manufacturing. Today, guys like Ron Jamieson, Mohawk from Six Nations, are wealthy while their own communities don't even have safe drinking water.
Ron is the co-chair of CCAB. He's been there for many years. Ron is a moneyman who retired a few years ago from banking. Now he sits on the board at OPA Ontario Power Authority and NWMO Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Is he encouraging Indigenous communities to accept nuclear waste? There are rumours about storing some in an old mine near H. Perish the thought but when crooks like the nuclear industrialists get desperate, they may secretly stash some of the deadly radioactive materials and nuclear bomb ingredients. Maybe they are already doing it!
Needless to say, there had to be someone at CCAB who is also upstream from Six Nations, polluting the Grand River. We found him right at the head of the table: founding co-chair of CCAB, Paul Summers, Chairman and CEO at Clemmer SteelCraft Technologies Inc. in Waterloo.
Clemmer SteelCraft makes custom tanks and pressure vessels for a broad range of industries, including petrochemical and nuclear. Their toxic chemical and metal waste water is dumped into the Grand River.
Nick Javor, bigshot VP of Corporate Affairs at Tim Horton's always always brings the coffee and donuts when the CCAB board meets. Nick is a chemical engineer who makes Tim Horton's coffee taste great. Tim Horton's makes over $2.5billion in sales each year. They even have outlets in Nunavut. Who takes out the garbage though, eh? Nick's a director of CCAB like Gary Merasty.
Gary Merasty, a Cree from northern Saskatchewan, is Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility at Cameco Corporation. Cameco is one of Canada's and the world's biggest producers of uranium. Gary shrugs and says, "What me worry about nukes?"
Gary was a Saskatchewan MP AND Grand Chief of the Prince Albert Grand Council. He must have quite a collection of hats. He also likes to get on all kinds of boards and get his picture taken.
Kara Flynn is secretary for the CCAB board. In her day job she is Manager, Public Affairs at Syncrude Canada in Fort McMurray. She puts the spin on how great it is to work on the oil sands. She's behind some of those petrochemical workers tv ads that try to convince us how harmless their UNDERGROUND operations are.
Randy Swanson, CCAB director and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation, is Vice President, Forestry & Aboriginal Services at Meyers Norris Penny MNP LLP in Winnipeg. MNP are chartered accountants and business advisors. A management and training consultant, Randy “advises MNP clients in project management, planning and development, strategic planning, management and intergovernmental affairs”.
In April 2008 he was appointed by the Federal Government as one of ten trustees overseeing the First Nation Market Housing Fund, a $300 million trust established to “facilitate private ownership of homes by First Nations people on reserve lands”. Keep on smilin', Randy!
There are many other people involved at CCAB including moneyman, Arden Buskell, President & COO First Nations Bank of Canada in Saskatoon and Jacques Plante, President of Nasittuq Corporation. Past board members include Steven Bearskin, Counsellor, Grand Council of the Crees in Ottawa and Kerry Hawkins, past CEO of Cargill Ltd. in Winnipeg.
CCAB Says Aboriginal Businesses Thriving
CCAB put out a report in April, 2011 claiming, "Aboriginal small business owners are clearly optimistic about future revenue growth."
Clint Davis is president and CEO of CCAB. In other words he's the Aboriginal Posterboy and Front Man. He said the survey conducted by Environics Research Group [a member of CCAB] found "successful Aboriginal businesses in all regions of Canada and many industry sectors".
"It's a very, very positive picture for Aboriginal entrepreneurs," he said.
What world is he living in? We see many people struggling to get by.
Clint is a lawyer and a BMO banker. He has worked for the feds at IAND and was a senior analyst at the Treasury Board Secretariat.
According to the Calgary Herald article, "A surprising fact uncovered by the survey was how few Aboriginals take advantage of federal procurement policies designed to favour them, Davis said, suggesting that government may need to do more to promote such programs."
Many nonNative people already have the impression that Indigenous are getting a free ride, special treatment. This article only inflames that resentment and further divides people. A handful of malleable aboriginal posterchildren are getting a lot of exposure. Yet they live in glass cages.
The Rockefellers were the first to establish a global industry with the goal of eventual and inevitable world government. Mackenzie King and Maurice Strong were hand picked Canadian tools. The Global Governance agenda has been moved ahead by regional free trade agreements, development and foreign aid polices, fearmongering over the Environment and war mongering.
The problem with empire is that when it gets too big and powerful, its leaders and citizens become complacent. Hedonism sets in and finally decay. This is what is happening today with pop and celebrity culture.
The corporate elitists need the resources of Turtle Island to carry out their plans. Indigenous communities are growing and rediscovering their roots. Indigenous sovereigntists who cling to ancient ways are like sand in the engines of a smooth running empire. After the death of the rotten old system comes a New Beginning. It's already happening.
Kittoh

With Files from a Blue Heron, 4 Wild Turkeys and a Choir of Spring Peepers
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NOTES AND SOURCES
What is a Canadian?
A Canadian is a wage slave with substantial creature comforts and a false sense of freedom and security. Since Canada does not own the land, Canadians live in TVLand.
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business CCAB
http://www.ccab.com/
"CCAB helps create great prospects for Aboriginal business people and their partners, suppliers and customers."
250 The Esplanade, Suite 204, Toronto, Ontario
Telephone: 416-961-8663 Fax: 416-961-3995
General Inquiries Email: info@ccab.com
Cassandra Bowers
Director, Marketing & Events
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
204A St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario
Phone: 416-961-8663 ext.222
Cell: 647-237-5006 Fax: 416-961-3995
email: cbowers @ ccab.com (no spaces)
website: www.ccab.com
CCAB - The People
http://www.ccab.com/governance
Murray Koffler
http://www.boeliem.com/content/1977/220.html
The Koffler nuclear accelerator is in Israel so the Israelis can study the nukes they pretend they don't have. Israel made a postage stamp for the Koffler accelerator.
"One of the most advanced experimental tools in existence, the Koffler Accelerator, operated jointly by the Weizmann Institute, the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is a new national resource serving physicists both here and abroad and providing Israel with an excellent training ground for tomorrow's scientists.
"On November 9, 1976 after remarkably few delays, except for the Yom Kippur War which held up building for six months, the completed accelerator - first phase of the Canada Centre of Nuclear Physics - was dedicated in the presence of government leaders, scientists and prominent guests from Canada and Israel."
http://www.jewishtoronto.com/page.aspx?id=47446
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news/detail.asp?ID=46
http://afptoronto.org/index.php/national-philanthropy-day/past-award-recipients/1997-award-recipients/outstanding-philanthropist-of-the-year-1997
http://www.shoppersdrugmart.ca/english/corporate_information/investor_relations/press_releases/articles/april_26_2007.html
http://www.mountsinai.on.ca/care/mkuwc/murray-koffler-urologic-wellness-centre
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/25/murray-koffler-shoppers-drug-mart-founder/article1795296/
Shoppers currently employs some 50,000 people in over one thousand stores, including Shoppers Drug Mart, Pharmaprix in Quebec, Simply Pharmacy units in hospitals and medical buildings, Shoppers Home Health Care stores, and Murale.
Koffler was a founding director, along with partners Isadore Sharp and Edmund Creed, of the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto in 1958.
In the late 1960s, Koffler founded the Council on Drug Abuse (CODA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koffler_Centre_of_the_Arts#Reena_Katz_controversy
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/four-seasons-building-the-dream/article979906/page2/
http://www.vosizneias.com/67671/2010/11/03/vancouver-canadian-chain-pulls-allegedly-anti-semitic-magazine
This article is written by a Jewish group in November 2010
"In the current edition, Adbusters offers its readers a one page "photo essay"—Truthbombs on Israeli TV—that makes comparisons between the situation that Palestinians are experiencing in Gaza and what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto experienced under the Nazis.Vancouver - Canada’s largest drugstore chain has decided to stop carrying a controversial anti-consumerist/activist magazine in its stores. But a spokesperson for Shoppers Drug Mart says the decision, made last month, is only coincidental with a dispute between the magazine, Vancouver-based Adbusters, and the Canadian Jewish Congress – not part of it."
CJC Bernie Farber works to censor any and all criticism of Israeli policies in Palestine. He terrifies timid people with the word "anti semitism". Koffler helps out by applying the censorship in his stores.
Paul Martin Jr.
When he was a young man, Paul Martin Jr. met Maurice Strong who took him on as a protégée in the oil business. Mau taught him good values and the art of sneaky manipulation. Paul rose through the ranks at Power Corp., mentored by Paul Desmarais Sr. and Strong. Martin bought Canada Steamship Lines from Power Corp. and then sold it back to them. The growing company went back and forth a number of times.
Paul was MP for LaSalle, Montreal from 1988 til 2008. From 1993 to 96, he was Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec.
He was Finance Minister in the Chretien cabinet, 1993 - 2002. In December 2001, he was named as a member of the World Economic Forum's "dream cabinet." The global business and financial body listed Martin along with United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as top world leaders.
Paul was Prime Minister of Canada after Chretien from 2003 to 2006.
Martin and the Liberals were adversely affected by a report from Auditor General Sheila Fraser on February 9, 2004, indicating that sponsorship contracts designed to increase the federal government's status in Quebec resulted in little to no work done. Many of the agencies had Liberal ties, and roughly $100 million of the $250 million in program spending went missing. The scandal hurt Martin's popularity, especially in Quebec, where Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe even accused Martin of planning to widen the St. Lawrence seaway to benefit his own Canada Steamship Lines. Martin denies involvement in, or knowledge of, the sponsorship contracts. He had a judicial inquiry called to investigate what has come to be known as the Sponsorship Scandal.
As Prime Minister, Martin promoted the expansion of the G8 into a larger group of twenty nations G20. He also forged a closer relationship with the People's Republic of China by announcing the strategic partnership initiative during PRC President Hu Jintao's state visit to Canada in September 2005.
Martin advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint Michaëlle Jean as Governor General. He is a permanent member of the Queen's Privy Council.
Paul Martin Sr. became a Windsor MP in 1935. He joined Mackenzie King's cabinet in 1945 as Secretary of State. He was Minister of Health and Welfare from 1946 to 1957. He was leader of the Canadian delegation to the UN when Israel was being formed in Palestine. Martin met Maurice Strong around that time and they became good friends.
Martin was Secretary of State for External Affairs in Lester Pearson's cabinet from 1963-68. Together, Pearson and Martin continued King's legacy to bring nuclear weapons to Canada. Trudeau made Martin a Senator in 1968.
Strong left Power Corp. to become director general of external aid, reporting to Martin. Mau hired engineering firm, SNC (now SNC Lavalin) for various development projects. Mau created CIDA Canadian International Develpment Agency in 1968 to replace External Aid. It was essentially, a "federally funded but semi-private intelligence/influence network."
Martin lost his bid for Prime Minister to Pierre Trudeau in 1968. Strong never missed a beat and now reported to Mitchell Sharp, Trudeau's Minister of External Affairs.
Martin and Strong had huge real estate holdings in Toronto along with Paul Nathanson. They combined everything to form Yolles and Rotenberg Properties. After Martin now a Senator, became Liberal House Leader in the Senate, the trio sold their shares and made a lotta money.
The Public were outraged. The government moved quickly to create conflict-of-interest guidelines with plenty of loop holes so that the facade could be held up while the plunder continued.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. CEO of Warner Music Group has a net worth $2,500,000,000
Avi Dichter was also head of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence organization. In 2002, he ordered the bombing of a Gaza apartment which killed Salah Shehadeh and 15 other Palestinian people, including children. A complaint was filed before the International Criminal Court, The Hague to have him tried for war crimes.
Maurice Strong
Mau's 6 page cv is included in his book, "Where on Earth are We Going". It looks like a response to Elaine Dewar's "Cloak of Green".
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~env00004
According to an online index of his 600+ boxes of papers donated to Harvard U, he was closely involved with CCAB during 1983-1987.
10 THINGS ABOUT MAURICE STRONG
1. Worked for Hudson's Bay Company as an apprentice fur trader in Chesterfield Inlet in 1945. This was at the time, the Canadian military was mapping out all the uranium deposits at Baker Lake, now Nunavut. Mau admired the Inuit people and learned their language. He said, "government intervention has had a debilitating effect on Inuit culture and sense of self-worth...what a mixed blessing modernization is for traditional peoples."
Mau left the Arctic in 1946 on the next boat out. He was later appointed to federal committee to study "the future governance of the Arctic". So did he have a hand in the creation of Nunavut???
2. Worked at UN for many years in Development and Aid; UN office for Emergency Operations in Africa, 1985-86.
3. Worked at the UN on Environment - Stockholm Conference, 1970-72; UNEP, Nairobi, 1973-75; Brundtland Commission and Our Common Future, 1988; Rio Summit, 1990-92. Strong was the creator, chair, collector of funding to promote concern about global environmental issues and thus, global governance.
Strong was Kofi Annan's advisor in Korea. etc. etc.
4. Advisor to PM's from Pierre Trudeau to Brian Mulroney to Chretien and Paul Martin. Who knows he may be helping Stephen Harper too.
5. President of Power Corporation 1962-64. Power Corp. was originally set up by Mackenzie King in 1925 to "control ownership of power generation facilities" across the land, especially in Quebec, Manitoba and BC. Owned and run by the billionaire family, the Desmarais, Power Corp. has huge holdings in energy, oil and gas, insurance and financing all over the world.
6. China: founding member and first co-chair of the CCBC Canada-China Business Council.
7. PetroCanada - 1976-78. In late 1975, Mau says he got a call from Jack Austin, then deputy minister of natural resources, asking him to head the new Petro-Canada being set up in response to the "OPEC induced oil crisis" which caused oil prices to increase sharply.
Mau said, "...much of our focus was in the northern frontier areas [with a] high priority to good relations with native peoples...we were determined to establish real consultation and real cooperation."
Whatever happened then Mau???
8. Started the WEF World Economic Forum in 1971. WEF is committed to improving the state of the world. There may be a pun there. Mau still chairs the meetings held in Davos, Switzerland. The elite membership includes Lakshmi N. Mittal, Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, UK, Peter Löscher, President and CEO of Siemens AG, Germany, Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Pierre Beaudoin, President and CEO of Bombardier Inc., Canada and Khalid A. Al Falih, President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia.
http://www.weforum.org
http://www.weforum.org/members
The typical Member company is a global enterprise with more than US$ 5 billion in turnover, although this varies by industry and region.
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/davo-j31.shtml
"Having begun with an attack on regulation, the banking executives stayed on the front foot throughout the [2011 WEF} summit, with executives from JP Morgan, Barclays, Credit Suisse and others calling a meeting of finance ministers and officials to demand that “bank bashing” cease. To reinforce the point, they insisted that “over-indebtedness of countries,” not just of banks, was responsible for the crisis."
9. Was head of Ontario Hydro 1992-95. After that hydro rates just went up and up.
10. Owner of the Baca Ranch and Manidou Foundation, run by wife Hanne who inducts Indigenous into the spiritual side of the NWO.
Maurice Strong never graduated from high school yet has been given over 40 honourary degrees around the world. He is and has been involved in many other organizations.
See also: "Cloak of Green" by Elaine Dewar.
Ron Jamieson
http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/management-mandate-and-organization/board-directors/board-directors
http://www.nwmo.ca/board_of_directors
http://www.nwmo.ca/advisory David Crombie is an advisor.
Paul Summers, Yankee from Michigan
ClemmerSteel Craft in Waterloo
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: (519) 884-4325 Email: psummers@clemmersteelcraft.com
Nick Javor, VP of Corporate Affairs at Tim Horton's
http://www.tednolanfoundation.com/2010/05/welcome-nick-javor/
http://www.nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/oct19_10cof-nun.html
Gary Merasty
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/09/06/merasty-cameco.html
http://www.ccab.com/vancouver_gala_completed
http://www.naaf.ca/news/2755
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/story.html?id=0a519b15-f0bf-4849-9123-f46e1a94e0a6&k=72295
http://www.cameco.com/responsibility/communities/stories/improves_the_lives/
Randy Swanson
http://www.mnp.ca/contact/personnel/randy-swanson
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Murray Koffler busted his ass in Toronto, collecting donations from Jewish people to support Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
Yom Kippur War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War
The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War, also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The war began when the coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which coincided with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights respectively, which had been captured and occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War. The conflict led to a near-confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, both of whom initiated massive resupply efforts to their allies during the war.
Aid to Israel
Based on intelligence estimates at the commencement of hostilities, American leaders expected the tide of the war to quickly shift in Israel's favor, and that Arab armies would be completely defeated within 72 to 96 hours. On October 6, Secretary of State Kissinger convened the National Security Council's official crisis management group, the Washington Special Actions Group, which debated whether the U.S. should supply additional arms to Israel. High-ranking representatives of the Defense and State Departments opposed such a move. Kissinger was the sole dissenter; he said that if the US refused aid, Israel would have little incentive to conform to American views in postwar diplomacy. Kissinger argued the sending of U.S. aid might cause Israel to moderate its territorial claims, but this thesis raised a protracted debate whether U.S. aid was likely to make it more accommodating or more intransigent toward the Arab world.
By October 8, Israel had encountered military difficulties on both fronts; in the Sinai, its effort to break through Egyptian lines with armor had been thwarted, and despite advances in the Golan, Syrian air defense systems were taking a high toll of Israeli planes, Israeli forces were retreating, and Syrian forces were overlooking the Jordan River. It became clear by October 9 that no quick reversal in Israel's favor would occur and that IDF losses were unexpectedly high. [but not nearly as many casualties as the Arabs suffered.]
During the night of 8-9 October, an alarmed Dayan told Meir that "this is the end of the third temple." He was warning of Israel's impending total defeat, but "Temple" was also the code word for nuclear weapons. Dayan again raised the nuclear topic in a cabinet meeting, warning that the country was approaching a point of "last resort." That night Meir authorized the assembly of thirteen 20-kiloton-of-TNT (84 TJ) tactical atomic weapons for Jericho missiles at Hirbat Zachariah, and F-4 aircraft at Tel Nof, for use against Syrian and Egyptian targets. They would be used if absolutely necessary to prevent total defeat, but the preparation was done in an easily detectable way, likely as a signal to the United States. Kissinger learned of the nuclear alert on the morning of October 9. That day, President Nixon ordered the commencement of Operation Nickel Grass, an American airlift to replace all of Israel's material losses. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Kissinger told Sadat that the reason for the U.S. airlift was that the Israelis were close to "going nuclear."
Casus belli
The war was part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, an ongoing dispute which included many battles and wars since 1948, when the state of Israel was formed on Palestinian land. During the Six-Day War of 1967, the Israelis captured Egypt's Sinai Peninsula all the way to the Suez Canal, which became the cease-fire line, and roughly half of Syria's Golan Heights.
The Arabs wanted their land back. They also knew that Israel was developing nukes though at the time Israel denied it.

===============NEW DISCUSSION PAPER NOW AVAILABLE in Print Format Only!!===============================
"A Calamity Threatens Your Happiness" by J. "Kittoh" Stanley, 2010, self-published, 260p., perfect bound.
A limited number of copies are now available.
This work promises to be important and controversial. It came about as a result of the phoney police-led anti uranium mining protests at Sharbot Lake in 2007 and covers related incidents in nearby Ongwehonweh and Nishnaabe communities. There's loads of info on the nuclear industry, Canadian militarization, water issues and much more.
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Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
First Nations need flood aid: Michael Ignatieff
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was shocked when he was told Saturday that federal disaster assistance won't be given to flood-stricken First Nations communities in Saskatchewan until after the election.
"I can't believe the federal government shuts down for an election," Ignatieff told the Leader-Post just before departing from the Regina International Airport en route to his next campaign stop in Edmonton. "This is an emergency."
He was particularly puzzled since First Nations communities fall under federal jurisdiction.
"These communities flood year after year; it's not good enough," Ignatieff said. "We have to sit down with First Nations leadership and think about how we get a preventative strategy."
He believes flooding across the prairie provinces must be addressed as a national project.
"It's affecting Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and many parts of southern Alberta have this problem," he said.
Chief Guy Lonechild of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) toured the Qu'Appelle Valley on Friday. He said the flooding is a disaster for many First Nations communities in the region including Sakimay, Cowessess and Muscowpetung.
"We're being told that Indian and Northern Affairs cannot assist, that the provincial government has got the provincial disaster assistance program that is supposed to help facilitate flood damage and provide financial services for dikes and roads that are being built up," Lonechild said Saturday.
He said flood aid is crucial especially for the Cowessess and Sakimay First Nations, where roads are washing out.
Lonechild expects to meet with the Regional Director General of Indian Affairs early next week.
An emergency disaster-relief meeting between affected First Nations and Indian Affairs is scheduled for Thursday in Regina.
First Nations people who have been evacuated from their homes are living in housing and hotel rooms in various locations around Broadview, Grenfell and Yorkton, Lonechild said.
"They're being told they'll potentially be out of their homes for some time," he said. "It is causing hardship for some of the elders and some of the people who are disabled and actually had to be rescued out of their homes.
"I've been talking to the chief of Muscowpetung and he is quite frustrated that Ottawa has told him that they're really not in a position to help because of the federal election. He was told that directly."
Lonechild is also upset the federal government cut funding to Indian Affairs by 15 per cent just before the election.
"It sends the wrong message," he said. "It says that First Nations communities are not a priority."
A federal candidates forum will be held at the First Nations University from 6 to 9: 30 p.m. today.
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Ignatieff made his first Regina campaign stop at the Stepping Stones Child Care Centre on Saturday morning. There he told reporters the Conservatives have been taking Alberta and Saskatchewan for granted.
He pointed to the Tory Saskatchewan caucus whom he called "13 stooges" who failed to stand up for the province when faced with the Potash foreign-takeover bid.
Later in the day, when Ignatieff was asked by the Leader-Post how the Liberals can gain support in Saskatchewan if the party's vote is split with the NDP, he responded: "Only the Liberal Party or the Conservatives are going to form a government after May 2, so NDP voters just have to look at that and decide whether they want to have four more years of Mr. Harper. I've been very clear that we're running this election to form a Liberal government on a Liberal platform."
As gas prices continue to spike across Canada, the Leader-Post asked Ignatieff what a Liberal government would do to ease consumers' pain at the pumps.
He said the federal government has a responsibility, under its competition policy, to ensure consumers aren't gouged.
"That's something a Liberal government would want to look into immediately."
Noting the price of gas in Regina is $1.30 per litre, Ignatieff said oil companies "don't need any more help from us and that's why we're freezing the corporate tax at 18 per cent and we're able to provide this help to the middle-class family without raising their taxes."
At the Regina daycare, he took part in two town halls, one with kids and another with parents to talk about his party's Early Childhood Learning and Care Fund.
Under a Liberal government, the fund will begin with $500 million in the first year, rising to an annual commitment of $1 billion by the fourth year.
Davy Coyle likes the Liberal plan to fund provinces and territories to create and operate high-quality early childhood learning and care spaces. The lack of daycare spots is a major concern for him and his wife.
The last time the couple checked, their five-month son, Noah, was the 603rd child on a wait list for a north Regina daycare.
The Regina dad said it isn't an option for either him or his wife to stay at home to care for Noah.
"It's hard to imagine going down to one income, plus we both love our careers and we've worked hard for our careers," Coyle said. "My wife was in several part-time jobs before she was made permanent in the last job she had before she took maternity leave."
He also applauded the Liberal proposal to give students $4,000 over four years for college or university.
"Both my wife and I had student debt for years and years after we graduated - it's certainly nothing unique, so $1,000 a year for us would have been huge," Coyle said. "I really think it's the best idea that's come out of Canadian politics since health care."
At the town hall, Lynnai Hicks, the mother of two small children, asked Ignatieff what his party would do to provide daycare for families with children older than a year, but under 18 months.
"So many families don't have any options because their maternity leave is 12 months, on a good corporate day, and the daycare centres don't take kids until they're 18 months, so for that six-month period you're stranded," Hicks said. "You're resorting to day homes or family members so you can go back to work and regain your income."
She was pleased with Ignatieff's response that this was an area that needed consideration.
Ignatieff said the lack of daycare spaces across Canada would be addressed in the first Liberal budget.
"All of the parents said to us with one voice, 'If you want a childcare space in Regina, you've got to put your name down before the kid is even born," he said. "We've got families waiting for two or three years. It's an issue of desperation for many families."
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Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/news/decision-canada/Sask+First+Nations+need+flood+Michael+Ignatieff/4633190/story.html#ixzz1Ju6PcaM5

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Everyone Please sign the petition, we have been fighting for no recycled sewage to be used on this Sacred Mountain for years. It is a health hazard for all living things not to mention no one who goes there to pray wants to do so on Sacred ground that has been contaminated with this affluent.



Marcie Lane
Committee Member
Protect Sacred Sites " Indigenous People,One Nation"
www.protectsacredsites.org
863-425-5478
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From: Tribal Wisdom Foundation
Date: 4/20/2011 11:24:03 AM
To: catehokte@hotmail.com
Subject: URGENT: No Snowmaking Alternative for San Francisco Peaks

TAKE ACTION: http://savenaturalsnow.com/take-action-for-change/

Dear No Snowmaking Supporter,

Please send a letter of support to the Secretary of Agriculture expressing concern over the USDA Forest Service’s approval of using treated sewage effluent to make artificial snow on the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona. The use of this sewage water for snowmaking poses great environmental dangers, threatens the cultural resources of the Indigenous Nations and has the potential to create health issues for those who accidentally ingest or come in direct contact with this type of sewage water. The most at risk are our children and those with compromised immune systems. The decision to allow the use of treated sewage effluent must be reversed for the good of the region. There is a better way.

A plan has been proposed for a non-profit foundation to purchase the Resort at a fair independent appraisal and to run it in an environmentally and culturally sensitive manner. We ask for your support to promote a non-profit foundation to purchase and manage the most eco-friendly ski resort in the world with No Snowmaking. We believe this is a safe and viable alternative to the pending request to utilize ground water or treated sewage effluent for snowmaking. A not-for-profit organization established to manage the Ski Resort in a manner that is both environmentally and culturally sensitive is the best alternative for all parties concerned.

Please visit www.savenaturalsnow.com to review a plan that promotes respect for the environmental and cultural integrity of the San Francisco Peaks. This plan promotes providing a safe setting to enjoy winter activities. This innovative approach is in-line with President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative which endorses the protection of water sources, cultural resources and the natural environment to provide this and future generations with a special place to recreate.

This No Snowmaking Alternative has many positive aspects that are needed to create a foundation for a healthy and diverse community. Please take action today and send the following letter to Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has the authority to Terminate the Ski Resort’s Special Use permit for the higher public purpose, and urge him not to allow further desecration or contamination of an otherwise pristine environment. As an alternative please ask the Secretary to support creating the most eco-friendly ski resort in the world. http://savenaturalsnow.com/take-action-for-change/

Thank you,
Tribal Wisdom Foundation


http://www.tribalwisdomfoundation.org


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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

The UNESCO Scam EMAIL

I am sending this to everyone on our list.
I don't know these people.
I did not originate the, so called, UNESCO Scam email. I passed it on from someone who I considered a reliable source.
And I am sick to death of folks trying to involve me in crap that I had nothing to do with. I don't know why they would unless they were trying to discredit our important work or they are not the brightest bulb in the pack.
Either way, if folks don't cease using my name in conjunction with this, my next communication with them will be from a lawyer, because as soon as we found out it wasn't legit, we spread the word immediately.
Thanks,
Dave Kitchen
Co Founder STSSA

issues and news From STSSA Freinds and Family

issues and news From STSSA Freinds and Family
Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
B.C. First Nations celebrate self-government
ANACLA, B.C.—Fireworks lit up the night sky one minute after midnight Friday, as members of five Vancouver Island First Nations marked a historic milestone with the implementation of a modern-day treaty.

The Maa-nulth treaty was 20 years in the making for the five bands that represent about 2,500 people near the communities of Bamfield, Port Alberni, Campbell River and Ucluelet.

“This is our new beginning,” Chuck McCarthy, president of the Yuuluilath Nation, said in a news release.

He said the treaty process has been a long journey, but “it feels good knowing that we are in charge of our future.”

Under the agreement, the Ucluelet, Toquaht, Uchucklesaht, Ka:’yu:’k’th’/Che:k’tles7et’h, and Huu-ay-aht bands get a land settlement of 24,550 hectares, $73 million over 10 years, annual resource revenue payments between $600,000 and $1.8 million, and an additional $900,000 over five years.

They will also receive $10.5 million a year in ongoing funding for programs and services, as well $47.9 million for implementation of the treaty.

But most important of all to the bands, they gain powers of self-government that give them control over their land and resources, taxation rights and frees them from the jurisdiction of the federal Indian Act, other than in the determination of Indian status.

“On Nuu-waas-sus (Our Day) we look forward to meeting the challenges of self-government with both fear and excitement,” Therese Smith, legislative chief of the Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k’tles7et’h’, said in a statement.

“Our treaty has fast-tracked our path to independence and self-reliance in the aftermath of the residential school era and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. We no longer look to or are controlled by INAC, we are now fully accountable to ourselves, for our own destiny.”

The Maa-nulth are part of Vancouver Island’s 14-member Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, but the five bands decided to negotiate a treaty as a separate group after an earlier Nuu-chah-nulth treaty failed.

The agreement is only the second modern-day treaty in B.C., where unlike other provinces the colonial government for the most part did not sign treaties with First Nations hundreds of years ago as they settled the land. The two-year-old Tsawwassen First Nation treaty was the first, while the majority of native bands in the province are still waiting.

There are currently 60 B.C. First Nations in treaty talks, with seven in the final stages, although the pace of successful negotiations has slowed to a near standstill in recent years.

The Maa-nulth, however, will continue celebrations of their treaty and gather Saturday for a ceremony involving representatives of the provincial and federal governments, as well as the B.C. Treaty Commission.

Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version said government representatives and the B.C. Treaty Commission will gather today for a celebration, and that the bands represent 2,100 people.
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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 bison.
Dear Sharon,
Buffalo Field Campaign is happy to announce the return of our immensely popular Mother's Day card fundraiser. With the recent passing of barb abramo, BFC's Office Coordinator and one of two women who gave incredible amounts of time, energy, and passion to make this project possible, we weren't sure if we would be able to offer cards this year. But when Kathleen Stachowski--the artist whose vision and dedication gave rise to this popular fundraiser--told us that she wanted to make a special card this year, we knew that it would be the perfect way to honor barb's memory.
For just $15 Buffalo Field Campaign will send one of these beautifully designed and hand-colored cards to the recipient of your choice. Please scroll down for all the details and remember that the deadline for ordering is Monday, April 25. We will send the cards to arrive by Mother's Day, May 8.
Click on photo to view full size image.
Spring is the season of rebirth, and this year’s card embraces the miracle! Our hand-made, hand-colored Mother’s Day card features a copy of an original drawing—a flower bedecked baby bison—and a Walt Whitman quote: “As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles.”
The sentiment inside reads:
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”~Willa Cather
A gift has been made in your honor by
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to further the work of Buffalo Field Campaign for a miraculous animal.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
The drawing, entitled “barb’s baby bison,” is a loving tribute to BFC’s recently departed Office Coordinator barb abramo (who insisted on no capital letters). While never a mother herself, she was heartily committed to all endeavors to raise babies—human or animal—in peace.
When you send a card to the special women in your life—whether or not they are mothers—you celebrate the miracle of spring, the miracle of birth and rebirth that is our shared experience, and the miracle of a new generation of bison—born into the only place on Earth where a wild bison herd has survived continuously since prehistoric times. You also fund the work of BFC as we protect and defend these shaggy miracles.
Our cards, suitable for all the nurturing women in your life, are copies of a hand-drawn original; each one is colored by hand. For your minimum donation of $15 per card, we'll send one to the recipient(s) of your choice, timed to arrive before Mother's Day. (A note on the envelope flap will advise the recipient to open on May 8th!)
Our card-maker has committed to crafting a limited number of cards; to ensure that your special recipient receives a BFC card, please order early.
To place your order, click HERE or send a $15 check or money order (no cash please) to Buffalo Field Campaign, PO Box 957, West Yellowstone, MT 59758. We must receive your order by Monday, April 25. Remember to clearly state the name and address of the person/people you'd like us to send the card to as well as any message you'd like us to write in the card.
For the Buffalo,
Dan Brister
Executive Director
Buffalo Field Campaign
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Youtube postings of our latest actions in Toronto, late March - please share and post

Toronto March 26 Public Lecture by Kevin Annett on his family in the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada, and how Tory dictatorship still runs Canada and caused the indigenous genocide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf5GI74AwTE&feature=related

Sunday March 27th 2011 Protest at Toronto churches by the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared in memory of the murdered residential school children:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YmtZezRHgk

See the evidence of Genocide in Canada at www.hiddennolonger.com and on the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org .
Watch Kevin's award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on his website www.hiddenfromhistory.org
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."~ Frederick Douglass
"We will bring to light the hidden works of darkness and drive falsity to the bottomless pit. For all doctrines founded in fraud or nursed by fear shall be confounded by Truth."
- Kevin's ancestor Peter Annett, writing in The Free Inquirer, October 17, 1761, just before being imprisoned by the English crown for "blasphemous libel"
"I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and welcome him."
Chief Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind
Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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: URGENT! Glen Cove Sacred Mound Under Attack Again from City of Vallejo, Ca -
A Call from Wounded Knee DeOcampoby Rob Dunaway on Monday, April 4, 2011
I just spoke with Wounded Knee DeOcampo by phone after receiving an e-mail that the Glen Cove Mound is under attack again. He stated that the city has claimed that they were going back in to remove portions of the mound or use chemicals on it by the middle of April. He does not trust that quote, as we have seen with other mounds, time tables are usually given to throw protests or actions off. He is beginng a round the clock watch on the site, and he is calling for help from everyone in the area. He states that the talk has gone long enough, and they have approached the city over and over again to stop this destruction and disrespect. According to Wounded, the city does not have enough money to maintain the parks because they are bankrupt, yet they have enough money to tear a mound down and build another park for the wealthy communities who live around the site.
We have listed the offices and city leaders on our site, http://www.facebook.com/l/cb3a2bDIZj9Oa8PPxcXcDUklOpg/www.strongheartpreservationmovement.com, and you can find the information under "Sacred Sites that Need Saved." Scroll down from the mound in Oxford, Alabama, and you will see the contact information, information regarding the Glen Cove, and articles concerning what is going on there.

The League of Indian Nations of North America and The International Parliament of Safety and Peace are going to be working on letters for the city. We have written them several times, and we will continue to do so. Please call, write, go in the building and ask questions, or whatever you can do to make the city stop. Also, if you know of a good lawyer in the area, please let Wounded know. I will also accept information and connect you with Wounded if you do not know how to get in touch with him. As Wounded states concerning Native heritage, "Our ancestors are crying. There is no more time for talk."
Here is the contact information for the city:
Let your voice be heard! Please send your emails to the following recipients:
Mayor of Vallejo, Osby Davis
eMail: mayor@ci.vallejo.ca.us
NOTE: Please include us in your eMail (cc: peaceWalk@helloWorld.com) so we can make a hard copy that can be personally delivered to each member of the Vallejo City Council, the Greater Vallejo Recreation District (G.V.R.D.), the Vallejo Times-Herald Newspaper, and "The Land People," the construction company, operated by Randy Anderson, contracted to do the work.
To contact the Vallejo Inter-tribal Council directly, please call or write:
Wounded Knee DeOcampo
400 Keats Drive
Vallejo, CA 94591
Comments should focus on why permits should not be issued to grade and blade the area which is rich in cultural resources and is a major burial site. Of course also mention objections to adding toilets and a parking lot on top of or near a burial site.

You can also request to be notified of all opportunities to comment on the proposed Glen Cove Development. Comments should go to GVRD General Manager Shane McAffee, eMail: smcaffee@gvrd.org

Also, cc your comments to the Mayor of Vallejo, Osby Davis. eMail: Mayor@ci.vallejo.ca.us
Thanks for spreading the word!

Rob Dunaway
Strong Heart Preservation Movement
Counselour for League of Indian Nations of North America
International Parliament of Safety and Peace
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BREAKING NEWS: LAKOTA ELDER OCCUPATION, PRAYER VIGIL, ILLEGALLY REMOVED UNDER COVER OF NIGHT!
Cante Tenza Okolakiciye - Strong Heart Warrior Society
Free & Independent Lakota Nation
Box 512, Hill City, South Dakota 57745 | 605-454-0449 or 605-517-1547
http://www.facebook.com/l/cb3a2iuP9Xw9rmfQvdNzzfDOamg/www.lakotaoyate.net | Facebook “Lakota Oyate” | Twitter @CanteTenza
Strong Heart Internet Radio News at http://www.facebook.com/l/cb3a2RpfR7fKLf-8fidRbJvlzwQ/audioboo.fm/CanteTenza
MEDIA RELEASE
April 6, 2011: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Naomi Archer (Strong Heart media liaison) 828-230-1404
Contact: Doris Respects Nothing (elder’s legal advocate) 605-407-9654
Contact: Lorraine White Face Eagle Elk (elder) 605-441-0086
ELDER’S OCCUPATION DAY 34
LAKOTA ELDER OCCUPATION, PRAYER VIGIL, ILLEGALLY REMOVED UNDER COVER OF NIGHT!
OST President, Tribal Attorney Had Guaranteed Protection, Order Comes From Kyle Judge
BREAKING NEWS Elder’s Occupation, Porcupine Elderly Meals Building, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD – At 2:30am, under the cover of night, Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) Public Safety police removed the Elder’s Occupation at the Porcupine Meals for the Elderly building by threat of overwhelming force. No arrests were made, and the young warriors defending the building did not resist the large number of police who arrived.
The peaceful elderly sit-in and prayer vigil seeking remedy for elder abuse, neglect, and fraud began on March 4th and is in its 34th day.
Elder Lorraine White Face Eagle Elk had stepped away from the building for a short time, and when she tried to re-enter was told she would be arrested. Other elders had returned home last night in order to get a good nights sleep before today’s continuing legal motions involving their occupation and the false imprisonment of Duane Martin Sr.
“Tribal Attorney Mario Gonzalez said the elders [sit-in] were protected by the Older Americans Act on the council floor [March 31],” explained Doris Respects Nothing, legal advocate for the elders. “Someone has overstepped their authority.”
OST President John Yellow-Bird Steele had also assured elders that no action would be taken against them.
Abusive retaliation against elders participating in Federally funded elder programming is prohibited by The Older American’s Act. The American with Disabilities Act expressly protects the whistle-blowers of discrimination, and the False Claims Act protects whistle-blowers of fraud involving Federal money. Elders claim that over one million dollars in U.S. grant or contract funds may be missing from the Elderly Meals Program.
The court order that removed the occupation reportedly came from Judge Fred Cedar Face in Kyle, South Dakota, apparently avoiding a Pine Ridge Judiciary that is facing an increasing level of outside scrutiny for delaying action on the elder’s complaints of abuse and fraud as well as the politically motivated prosecution of whistle-blower and elder advocate Duane Martin Sr. The order was also served in the early morning hours, outside of normal court procedure.
“What was so bad that they had to do it in the illegal hours of the night,” Respects Nothing questioned. “It should have been served in the daylight.”
The court order removing the sit-in also references a code that no protest can occur within 100 feet of any tribal building. Elders say their action is not a protest, but a prayer vigil and sit-in to get relief for their claims. Traditional Lakota ceremony, prayers, honoring of the sacred canupa (pipe), as well as hosting the Longest Walk prayer run over the recent weekend are all examples of the religious nature of their sit-in.
Also, according to the 2007 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous people have right to full access of their lands and resources, as well as traditional social customs and judiciary practices.
Chief of Police Pat Mills reportedly told those being removed from the elderly meals site last night the police would have come in the daytime, but it would have been, “more of a problem.” Advocates point out police action in the middle of the day when more elders were present would indeed have been a problem as each act to threaten or physically remove an elderly whistle-blower would be a crime under both OST Law and Order Code and Federal law.
For months leading up to the peaceful sit-in, elders repeatedly sought relief from OST Tribal Council, officials, and Porcupine District officials for their abuse claims, but to no avail.
“We tried to have meetings with them, but when we went [to the meals building] the doors were locked,” shared duly elected Porcupine Elderly Meals president Enoch Brings Plenty. “ They called the police on us and chased some of them elderly away from there.”
Additional actions seeking remedy from multiple claims of elder abuse, neglect, fraud, and discrimination were rebuffed by OST tribal officials, and legal retaliation from the OST Judiciary was used. Continued neglect from OST and Porcupine officials resulted in the peaceful sit-in which began on March 4, 2011 and is currently in its 34th day.
“There has been discrimination against the elders – they have been abused,” added Brings Plenty. “The elders have every right to be in the building. Tribal council recognized that, that’s why we are here.”
Legal advocates for the elders will be seeking an immediate dismissal of Judge Cedar Face’s order in Pine Ridge court today so the sit-in can continue without police intervention. The elders have stated they will continue their prayer vigil for as long as necessary until they get relief for the claims of abuse and fraud and until elder advocate Duane Martin Sr. is released.
Information on the elder-led sit-in and vigil in Porcupine can be found at “Lakota Oyate” on Facebook or http://www.facebook.com/l/cb3a2iuP9Xw9rmfQvdNzzfDOamg/www.lakotaoyate.net.
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Cante Tenza Okolakiciye also known as the Strong Heart Warrior Society of the Lakota Nation is an ancient Lakota warrior society as well as a broad-based civil rights movement that works to protect, enforce and restore treaty rights, civil rights, and sovereignty of Native people and their communities across Turtle Island. In addition to activist efforts to protect the land and people, each year Cante Tenza collects and freely distributes shoes, winter coats, school supplies, food, and other support to Oglala Lakota elders, children and families.
http://www.facebook.com/l/cb3a2iuP9Xw9rmfQvdNzzfDOamg/www.lakotaoyate.net | “Lakota Oyate” on Facebook

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Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
Voyageurs left TB time bomb with First Nations
A distinctive tuberculosis strain was left by 18th century Voyageurs in remote Aboriginal communities along their trade routes and still plagues those communities today, new research shows.
Remote First Nations communities in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta share the same dominant strain of the infectious lung disease because they all got it from French Canadian fur traders in the 1700s — a century before any TB epidemics were reported in those communities, says a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research shows that tuberculosis spread by a brief historical interaction can stay dormant in a community for 100 years or more before emerging as an epidemic, said Caitlin Pepperell, the Canadian researcher at Stanford University who led the study.
"It points out why it's so difficult to eradicate TB," she added in an interview Wednesday.
Pepperell, who is originally from Toronto, has been studying TB epidemics in aboriginal populations for about five years.
During an earlier study, she noticed that DNA fingerprints from remote Ontario and Saskatchewan communities were very similar to each other, "which I thought was odd, because they're very distant populations," she said.
'To have a single strain...that's so dominant is really unusual.'—David Alexander
It was also peculiar because TB has thousands of strains across Canada, said David Alexander, a molecular microbiologist with the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He was one of 12 Canadian and U.S. researchers who co-authored the study.
In urban areas like Toronto, every infection usually belongs to a different strain, Alexander said: "To have a single strain or a single variant that's so dominant is really unusual."
Pepperell suspected that the Ontario and Saskatchewan communities' location along historical fur trade routes was the common link between them.
With help from researchers in Ontario, Alberta and Quebec, Pepperell analyzed genes from the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. tb, from the French Canadian population of Quebec and Aboriginal populations outside urban areas in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta over the past 20 years. However, the data from Manitoba was too limited to do the type of analysis done for the other provinces. Pepperell then compared the genetic data to trade routes used by the voyageurs.
Brief, ancient contact
Only a few thousand French Canadian voyageurs were involved in trading furs with Aboriginal populations between 1710 and 1870, resulting in close trade relationships and intermarriages. After that, French Canadians had almost no contact with those distant, isolated Aboriginal communities.
In Canada, there are thousands of strains of the infectious lung disease tuberculosis. But one particular strain dominates in remote First Nations communities in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta. In Canada, there are thousands of strains of the infectious lung disease tuberculosis. But one particular strain dominates in remote First Nations communities in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta. (Associated Press)And yet, genetic data in Pepperell's study showed that the French Canadian population of Quebec was the source of the dominant tuberculosis strain in found Aboriginal populations along former fur trade routes today. It also showed that the original transmission took place in the 1700s.
"It's surprising that the signals of these 18th century historical events are so clear in the genetic data," Pepperell said.
No large-scale TB epidemics were reported in Aboriginal communities until the late 1800s and early 1900s — about 100 years after the disease was first transmitted to them.
The researchers suggested that means tuberculosis can be spread widely by a small number of people in the absence of epidemics. Epidemics could arise later when the environment changed in a way that allows tuberculosis to thrive - for example, if conditions become crowded or social, housing or health conditions deteriorate.
That's because TB requires very close contact to spread and most healthy people infected with TB do not become sick, Alexander said. However, the disease can emerge later if an infected person is put under stress.
Pepperell said the study helps researchers understand how TB works and moves between populations, and may be useful to policy makers interested in curbing the spread of TB

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Campo Santo How Does the County of Los Angeles Handle Human Remains?
Posted: April 7th, 2011
In one of the haunting legacies of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the remains of 1,123 of the victims, 41 percent of the total, have not been identified, leaving many of their relatives yearning for closure. At the same time, nearly 10 years later, 9,041 pieces of human remains — mainly bone fragments but also tissue that has been dehydrated for preservation — are still being sorted through by the city’s medical examiner . . . .
How to handle remains is one of the most delicate questions that confront those trying to commemorate the darker chapters of human history. Over the past 20 years, museums across the country have grappled with how to repatriate Native American skeletons, scalps and bones to their tribal heirs, as prescribed by a 1990 federal law. At its inception, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington debated whether to display human hair from the Nazi death camps, and decided not to when some survivors felt it would be offensive.
In Oklahoma City, unidentified remains of the 168 victims of the 1995 bombing are buried under a grove of 168 trees on the State Capitol complex — two and a half miles from the museum chronicling the events. In Shanksville, Pa., where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, only family members are allowed access to the crash site, which is assumed to contain some remains of the 40 passengers and crew members, though there will eventually be an elaborate memorial open to the public surrounding it. At Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, ashes from the Nazi death camps are kept in the Hall of Remembrance, separate from the museum, which turns away people who bring remains from the fields surrounding the camps. . . .
“When you go to the genocide museum in Phnom Penh, when you go to genocide museums all around Rwanda, there have been decisions in those places to present corpses, skulls, evidence of human remains. When you go to Auschwitz, the entire facility is made up of human remains[," according to Alice Greenwald, the head of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum underneath where the twin towers stood.]
Read the rest of this story on the dispute over victims’ remains at the 9/11 museum in the New York Times . . .
How has the County of Los Angeles handled the unearthing of 118 sets of human remains and artifacts, including Native American remains and artifacts, at El Pueblo Campo Santo since October 28, 2010? By moving the remains and artifacts in over 300 garbage bags and buckets, first to California State University at Los Angeles and then to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. By not disclosing the truth to anyone after five months. By not engaging in respectful government to government consultation with Native Americans and other impacted descendants. By denying Native Americans full and fair access to the site of Campo Santo and the remains and artifacts. By defying federal and state laws. By “dining and dancing” at the site of the excavations at a gala on April 9 . . .
Imagine the public reaction if the County of Los Angeles and LPCA had been in charge of handling the remains from 9/11 at Ground Zero and Shanksville, Pennsylvania . . . At the federal building in Oklahoma . . . At the Holocaust museums and memorials in Washington and Jerusalem . . .
Click here to read archeologist Prof. Paul Langenwalter’s testimony before the Native American Heritage Commission on March 28, 2011 about the excavations at Campo Santo. Prof. Langenwalter testified that the remains were being removed piecemeal; legs, skulls, and beads were separated; accepted archeological practices were not followed; and the supervisor’s office put undue pressure to keep going despite the unearthing of human remains. Prof. Langenwalter testified that there was reason to believe the remains and artifacts included Native American remains and artifacts. He pulled his archeology students from the site after a few days rather than associate them and Biola University with the devastation. Prof. Langenwalter concluded:
I hope that this will result in a full day-lighting of all excavation records, all documentary records that are associated with the project. That these will be evaluated by an independent third party. That the human remains will be fully reconstructed and studied archaeologically and then properly reentered with respect. Also, that the Native American community can be allowed access to the Native American remains.
Click here to read archeologist Monica Strauss’s testimony before the Native American Heritage Commission on March 28, 2011. Ms. Strauss testified that she was “flabbergasted” by the way human remains were unearthed because conventional archeological practices were not followed.
Click here to learn about archeological best practice examples: the African American Burial Ground in New York City and the original site of Jamestown.
Visit www.saveancestors.org and www.savecamposanto.org and www.saveyaangna.org and www.cityprojectca.org/blog for regular updates.

Robert García
President and Counsel
The City Project
1055 Wilshire Avenue, Suite 1660
Los Angeles, CA 90017
rgarcia@cityprojectca.org
213-260-1035
Visit our web page and blog at
www.cityprojectca.org

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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
April 7, 2011

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* Urgent Action Needed Now!
* Send a Mother's Day Card to Help the Buffalo
* Contacting APHIS for Bull Buffalo
* Buffalo in the News
* By the Numbers
* Last Words
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* Urgent Action Needed Now!
A wild buffalo cow walks alone in the Gardiner Basin, seeking to join friends below. BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
Dear Friends of the Buffalo,
This week we have an urgent call to action for your help in protecting America's last wild buffalo. More than 660 wild American buffalo are now held in traps by the National Park Service. They urgently need your help.
First, buffalo need you to contact Members of Congress requesting that they co-sign a letter to National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis encouraging Yellowstone National Park to find habitats for wild buffalo to roam. Take Action Now!
Second, several bills that would cause great harm to wild bison and bison restoration efforts in Montana have moved through the Montana Legislature. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has hinted that he may veto these bad bills. Americans everywhere should contact Governor Schweitzer asking him to veto HB 318, SB 174, SB 184, and SB 212. Take Action Now!
Your consistent pressure applied to decision-makers on behalf of America's last wild buffalo is really making a positive difference. Just this week the agencies finalized an agreement to have "greater tolerance" for wild bison in the Gardiner Basin. While we are still waiting to see the details of this agreemeent, we remain optimistic that it is a step in the right direction, though we do not like the idea of a 'drop-dead zone' north of Yankee Jim Canyon, the arbitrary May 15 deadline at which this "tolerance" abruptly ends, nor the idea of hundreds more buffalo being killed in the hunt. We will continue to monitor the situation in the field and will let you know what this agreement looks like on the ground for the buffalo.
It is critical that we keep the pressure on! Thank you for taking action to protect the buffalo and their descendants, and for honoring them as a valued wildlife species with a birthright to freely roam Montana and elsewhere.
Roam Free!
Dan Brister
Executive Director
Buffalo Field Campaign
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* Send a Mother's Day Card to Help the Buffalo
Buffalo Field Campaign is happy to announce the return of our immensely popular Mother's Day card fundraiser. With the recent passing of barb abramo, BFC's Office Coordinator and one of two women who gave incredible amounts of time, energy, and passion to make this project possible, we weren't sure if we would be able to offer cards this year. But when Kathleen Stachowski--the artist whose vision and dedication gave rise to this popular fundraiser--told us that she wanted to make a special card this year, we knew that it would be the perfect way to honor barb's memory.
For just $15 Buffalo Field Campaign will send one of these beautifully designed and hand-colored cards to the recipient of your choice. Please use this link to view and order cards and remember that the deadline for ordering is Monday, April 25. We will send the cards to arrive by Mother's Day, May 8.
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* Contacting APHIS for Bull Buffalo
Thank you all for contacting APHIS and MTFWP about their unsavory and unnecessary bull bison study. Your messages are making an impact. In fact, we've been getting calls from APHIS asking us to back off a bit. Good work! Apparently, Becky Frey, the APHIS scientist who is actively molesting bull buffalo, has put in some complaints, claiming that some of the messages she's receiving contain "threatening" language. Some of you may have even received responses from special agents with the Office of the Inspector General, complete with warnings. We've also been sent a few examples, and have been hard pressed to find anything that would qualify as "threatening." APHIS seems to believe they are above public reproach, and are forgetting that as a federal agency they are accountable to the people and that the actions they take are absolutely up for public scrutiny. We encourage you to keep writing APHIS, and would never condone any type of censorship. Nor would Buffalo Field Campaign ever encourage violent or threatening language of any type. The bull buffalo are the ones being threatened by the APHIS study. They are the ones that need protection from harm.
APHIS did come to West Yellowstone last week, looking for bulls to molest. But it seems that weather has been working in the buffalo's favor. APHIS was unable to travel the landscape successfully and we've not seen them around in a number of days. It is also possible that your letters are making it uncomfortable for APHIS to swarm into our backyard with the intent of harming bull buffalo.
Keep the pressure on!
Watch BFC's video
Contact FWP's Wildlife Chief Ken McDonald and urge him to revoke APHIS's permit
Contact Becky Frey, APHIS, and tell her she is not welcome to molest bulls buffalo on our public lands or anywhere else!
Don't let any more bull buffalo become needless victims of APHIS's experimental study! BFC file photo by Cindee. Click photo for larger image.
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* Buffalo in the News
Obituary: barb abramo
West Yellowstone News
Buffalo Field Campaign: On-the-ground Activism
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
LETTER: Step Up to Save America's Wild Bison
The Examiner
LETTER: Buffalo Important Part of Our Heritage
Billings Gazette
Agreement to let Yellowstone bison roam in southern Montana, where hunting would increase
Associated Press, The Canadian Press
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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.
2010-2011 Total: 221
2010-2011 Government Capture: 659
2010-2011 Government Slaughter:
2010-2011 Died In Government Trap: 3
2010-2011 Miscarriage in Government Trap: 1
2010-2011 State & Treaty Hunts: 211
2010-2011 Quarantine: 0
2010-2011 Shot by Agents: 2
2010-2011 Highway Mortality: 5
2009-2010 Total: 7
2008-2009 Total: 22
2007-2008 Total: 1,631
* Total Since 2000: 3,932*
*includes lethal government action, trap-related fatalities, quarantine, hunts, highway mortality
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* Last Words
"Not all who wander are lost."
~J.R.R. Tolkein
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; you'll see them here!
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West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
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http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org
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in defense of the last wild buffalo population in the U.S.
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: Two more days until the Spirit Run! Prayer in Motion through the sacred sites of West L A
This will be a Relay Prayer Run done in an Indigenous ceremonial fashion and be Westside L.A. specific. It will start with a Sunrise Ceremony at Ballona Wetlands (Huaxpet/Sa'agna) near Linoln & jefferson Blvds. in Playa del Rey. The Sunrise ceremony will be conducted by Tongva representaive(s), the Indigenous people of the L.A. Basin.
The Spirit Runners will run Relay, either individually, or in small teams carrying their energy and prayers through the streets, neighborhoods, and Sacred Sites of West Los Angeles .
It will culminate early afternoon at Kuruvunga Springs on the campus of University High School in West Los Angeles where we will enjoy food & drink, ceremonial dancing, and a few educational guest speakers.
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Good day Relatives!
All is good, please believe it…Two more days until the Spirit Run!
FOCUS on your visions and intentions that you want to plant for the 4 Corners community and any aspect of your life that needs prayers and assistance. Also, review the homepage of the website to get reacquainted with the focus and purpose(s) of the run. http://www.facebook.com/l/3944a-DDd6ApbRCmnQQH92aTpOQ/www.spiritrun.ws
Please, please review the Guidelines and Route. It is very important that we are on the same page and unified with protocol and information as much as possible. http://www.facebook.com/l/3944aZ0bndPpakTBLq_oeEuw9hA/www.spiritrun.ws/guidelines.pdf http://www.facebook.com/l/3944aEvKoEt7m2RpfMZ1v7LyvZw/www.spiritrun.ws/route.pdf
There will be water, fruit, and some snacks available but please bring your own supply in case we are short.
Don’t forget to bring you’re Children too, everyone is welcomed and has a role, child or elder.
If we have not contacted you via phone please be patient. If we miss on contacting you please do come anyway! We are all helpful and friendly people. Just make sure you check in when you get there with me (Miguel), Gina, Sandy, or Ozzy.
Any questions or concerns please call us.
Ahau..tlazocamatli, gracias, thank you!
Miguel 310-425-4141
Sandy 310-703-7506
Gina 310-266-2810
Ozzy 310-500-7339
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MESSAGE FROM DENNIS BANKS RE. THE LONGEST WALK..DONATIONS NEEDED
Friday, April 15 at 11:30pm - April 16 at 2:30am
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More Info We are in immediate need of funds for food, water, medical supplies, shelter, gas and auto upkeep. We will be walking acrosss America for a total of 5 months - 5400 miles

OSDA SUNALEI AGIDOI ALE AGILVGI OSDA!
GOOD MORNING GUYS N DOLLS!
PLEASE HELP MR. DENNIS BANKS AND THE LONGEST WALKERS TO COMPLETE THEIR JOURNEY. SUPPLIES ARE NEEDED SUCH AS WATER, FOOD, GASOLINE. YOU CAN DONATE WITH ANY MAJOR CREDIT CARD. JUST GO TO HTTP://LONGESTWALK3.COM ... IT IS THAT SIMPLE. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS.
MR. BANKS HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO WIPING OUT DIABETES, WHICH IS THE 3RD LARGEST KILLER OF AMERICAN INDIANS, IN OUR LIFE TIME. DIABETES IS RAMPANT IN MY FAMILY AND I CAN ATTEST TO THE HORRORS OF THIS DEADLY DISEASE.
MANY BLESSINGS TO ALL FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY.
DONADA GOHV,GAGEVI, NOQUISI
LOVE TO ALL! STAR
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: ITS GIVE AWAY SUNDAY AT RED SHOULDER COUNCIL! MR. DENNIS BANKS NEEDS DONATIONS TO CONTINUE THE LON
osda sunalei agidoi ale agilvgi osda!
good moring brother & sisters!
as always, its GIVE AWAY SUNDAY! if you can share, do share. please send clothing, shoes, emergency items, school supplies, pampers, etc. to a reservation of your choice. go to http://www.facebook.com/l/bb892gcF2fvKnWgCnKqye_P0Y3Q/indians.org and pick one. locate a school on that rez and send a package there. do not send to tribal offices or any specific individual. if you send to a school, the people will be sure to get the items. many elders are in need and the schools will be happy to distribute to them.
PLEASE HELP MR. DENNIS BANKS AND THE LONGEST WALKERS TO COMPLETE THEIR JOURNEY. SUPPLIES ARE NEEDED SUCH AS WATER, FOOD, GASOLINE. YOU CAN DONATE WITH ANY MAJOR CREDIT CARD. JUST GO TO HTTP://LONGESTWALK3.COM/ ... IT IS THAT SIMPLE. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS.
MR. BANKS HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO WIPING OUT DIABETES, WHICH IS THE 3RD LARGEST KILLER OF AMERICAN INDIANS, IN OUR LIFE TIME. DIABETES IS RAMPANT IN MY FAMILY AND I CAN ATTEST TO THE HORRORS OF THIS DEADLY DISEASE.
***diabetic testing supplies, blood pressure cuffs, eyeglasses, hearing aids, canes, walkers, wheelchairs are always in demand. if yu can donate, please do. baby supplies are also an item that is always needed. car seats, strollers, cribs, can always be recycled as long as they are in safe, useable, clean condition.***
please continue to send cards to mighty max. let's help him reach his goal of 1 million cards!
remember, if you cannot donate blood, you can always help with a blood drive and donate cookies and juice and bottled water to your local american red cross.
please keep yolanda tahy and her daughter in your prayers. yolanda is suffering from pneumonia and her daughter has been stricken with a brain illness. they desperately need our support, love and prayers.
please check the home wall for those in need of prayer. many of our members have been stricken with illness and hard times. keep each other in your prayers, this is a divine and precious way of giving love.
blessings to all, have a safe and wonderful week. never ever drink and drive.
love to all,
gagevi,
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Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
First Nations leaders launch voting campaign, Taiaiake Alfred: "Bullshit"
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is launching a campaign to encourage more First Nations people to vote in the upcoming federal election.
Grand Chief Ron Evans, actor/comedians Lorne Cardinal and Craig Lauzon, authors Ian Ross (Joe from Winnipeg) and Beatrice Mosionier (April Raintree) and many others gathered today to launch the “I Am First Nation and I Vote” campaign.
On average, less than one-third of the voter population on First Nation communities in Manitoba cast a ballot in the last federal election.
n partnership with the Indigenous Leadership Development Institute and the Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is encouraging all First Nation people to vote in the federal election, May 2, and participate in the census on May 10.
“Many First Nation people live in third world conditions and think that nothing will ever change,” says Grand Chief Evans. “By voting, by filling in the census, basically by using our democratic rights, we can and will make a difference.
“We know that other Canadians support us and will do the same when they vote.”
The AMC wants to boost those numbers with a campaign called 'I Am First Nation and I Vote.'
Winnipeg's Amber-Rae Wood, 26, is an international model who is one of the faces of the campaign. She said she wants to help change the perception that aboriginal people feel their vote doesn't count.
"I just think maybe it's just a lack of confidence that they can actually make a change — and just to empower themselves," she said.
Taiaiake Alfred, a professor at the University of Victoria, stated in an interview to CBC radio that efforts to induce indigenous peoples to vote is "bullshit." (See Column in this section.)
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Chief Proposes Adding $14 million to Cherokee Nation Budget for Health and Other Services: 4/8/2011
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The legislative branch of the Cherokee Nation voted last week in committee to move forward with a budget modification proposed by Principal Chief Chad Smith that increases the tribe’s budget by more than $14 million.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3566
Native-Inspired Nike Shoes Available through Cherokee Nation at a Discount: 4/6/2011 9:25:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is offering an opportunity for Native people to order unique athletic shoes at a deeply discounted price. Those interested will be able to order men’s and women’s Nike N7 shoes on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Tahlequah at the Cherokee Nation Male Seminary Recreation Center.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3565
Global Agency Affirms Cherokee Nation’s High Credit Rating: 4/6/2011 8:20:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation's good credit rating was reaffirmed recently in a report released by Fitch Ratings, an agency that provides investors with credit opinions of organizations around the world.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3563
Native-inspired Nike Shoes Available Through Cherokee Nation at a Discount: 4/6/2011
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is offering an opportunity for Native people to order unique athletic shoes at a deeply discounted price. Those interested will be able to order men’s and women’s Nike N7 shoes on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Tahlequah at the Cherokee Nation Male Seminary Recreation Center, 1501 Graham Ave. Available in the offer are the new men’s black N7 and the new women’s white N7.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3564
Cherokee Nation Accepting Cherokee Promise Scholarship Applications: 4/5/2011 4:43:00 PM
(C) Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation is accepting applications for its innovative new Cherokee Promise Scholarship until Friday, April 29. The Cherokee Promise provides financial assistance to low-income Cherokee students pursuing higher education at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3562
Sequoyah Schools Dean Earns Doctoral Degree: 4/5/2011 8:34:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
Sequoyah Schools’ Dean of Academics Geary Don Crofford recently earned his doctoral degree from the University of Oklahoma.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3561
Cherokee Nation Stilwell - Tahlequah Transit Schedule Adds Stops: 4/4/2011 11:54:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
In response to user feedback, Cherokee Nation has changed its “park-n-ride” schedule for the Stilwell to Tahlequah route. The new route adds stops at the Cherokee Nation’s Male Seminary Family Recreation Center and Northeastern State University. The route will no longer stop at the Cherokee Nation courthouse.
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Fwd: Request from Arvol Looking Horse and World Peace Day
Posted by: "Christina Rose"
Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:52 am (PDT)


If you are interested in attending World Peace Day in Minnesota or hosting a World Peace event in your own community, see the link below and download the event poster attached.
World Peace Day is an annual international day of prayer.
I have also received a request for a decent car to be donated to Arvol Looking Horse's 501 C3 tax deductible organization in South Dakota. Arvol and Paula's own car is no longer operable and it is becoming difficult for them to attend the events to promote peace. As most surely know, Arvol Looking Horse is considered by many to be the spiritual leader of the Lakota people, and he is the keeper of the Sacred Pipe given by the White Buffalo Calf Woman so many generations ago.
For more information about World Peace Day and Arvol Looking Horse, please visit their website noted below. I am forwarding the poster but if you cannot download it, just write to me and I will send it individually. You can also contact them personally by writing to paula "at" wolakota.org.
Respectfully,
Christine Rose
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From: Paula Horne-Mullen
To: Christina Rose Sent: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 11:38 am
Thank you for your interest in praying united for Mother Earth's healing!
Here is a poster, one to activate your own site.
If your organization can sponsor a mailing to Peace Centers, Tribal groups, environmental organizations, Religious Groups, etc..this help would be appreciated in getting as many places in the world activated and alert the People how they an help.
Www.worldpeaceandprayerday2011.org
Tail Feather Woman Information of the Ride that is happening as well June 6th-18th.
INFORMATION, FYI:
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Throughout history many great men leaders are revered, but seldom are the great women remembered.
All women are sacred and remembered as a whole for what they gave and sacrificed as the ‘back bone’ for the People.
Wiyaka Sinte Win (Tail Feather Woman) is deserving of additional honor because she received a vision which still today blesses all the People. She deserves recognition and honor for the remarkable feat that she performed and the vision she was given by the Creator. Historians called her Santee. If she would not have received the vision and completed her commitment, our culture would be so different today, perhaps our existence. Therefore it is important that we re-educate our People, as it seems that somewhere in history, her story has been forgotten and her memory has not been fully honored.
The vision was given during a time when our People were running for their lives. It was told to her that the sound of the drum would not only unite the People, but especially during that time when the Calvary was massacring our People, the creation of the Big Drum would stop the bloodshed.The Big Drum ceremonycame from Tail Feather Woman, the story as follows:
Tail Feather Woman was by her camp gathering food sometime after Little Big Horn, when the Blue Coats invaded her traveling camp. There are some versions that say she told the Anishinabe that her four sons died in the invasion, somedo not mention this, in any case, she ran for her life from the Blue Coats who were on horse back.
She dove in the lake and thought quickly enough to grab a reed to breath through, hiding under the water for a long period of time (some say over night, some say for four days, in which case, it was very long for hours on end…) While under the water, she prayed for her People to live because after Little Big Horn, the Calvary were retaliating against any traveling camps leaving from the area, targeting those that had participated in the Battle.
After much suffering and prayers, the Creator gifted the People by giving Tail Feather Woman a vision of the Big Drum. The pounding of the drum is to bring healing for the People and to bring them together in unity. It was also told that the drum would cause the white man to put down their weapons toward the people and stop the bloodshed.
After the Blue Coats camped and waited for her to come up, Tail Feather Woman arose from the water by the calling of the spirit and wept of loosing her children, where upon she was able to walk through the camp of the blue coat soldiers, unseen. Tail Feather Woman was invisible to them and walked across the plains to find her other family members that got away. Exhausted and ill, she finally found them, they nursed her back to health and she told of her experience and vision. As directed by the Creator she headed east with her family. She left to the area she was born and found the Anishinabe People in northern Minnesota.
As directed, she passed on the vision, along with the songs and protocols for the ceremony. This ceremony still exists today with many Big Drum Societies. The Big Drum was not only was embraced by the Tribes mentioned and our own People, but it spread to many other tribes in the four directions, but only parts of her teachings seeped along with the knowledge of the Big Drum. Today popular version is the Pow-wow drum, but the knowledge of where it derived from somehow got erased.
There is a belief of a Tribe in the South, that we as humans should carry on our life in honor of our family and People, we should never suffer the 3rd death. The first is when our spirit leaves our body, the second is when our body goes in the ground, the third death (that one should never suffer); is to suffer the death in the memory of your family and relatives.
So we remember Tail Feather Woman (aka Eagle Tail Woman), a unique name, as it is the part of the eagle that is used for any of our ceremonial rites, you need that eagle tail feather to participate in most of our seven sacred rites, a powerful name. She was one of our Nation’s women that survived a tremendous feat, through strength and endurance, earning a powerful vision of healing. We should not allow her memory to die with her own people or rather; this story should be reborn to her People that she lived in honor of our people.
In 2008, Chris Leith, who is half Ojibway and half Dakota shared the knowledge from his Grandmother; she told him the story of Tail Feather Woman attending Little Big Horn Meeting, she also asked him to remember the place of her vision, Pickerel Lake ( better known as Hog’an Tanka "Big Fish Lake" which is located in the west in South Dakota.
In the same year, we took a horse to the Mill Lac Big Drum Society and presented them with the gift and were met by emotional Elders.
The horse (whose name is Ox) carried gifts of pendletons and star quilts brought by each band of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota members who wanted to learn about her vision and the Anishinabe Big Drum Society. It was told later by the Elders why they were emotional, Tail Feather Woman left a prophecy of a time in the future when her People would come to their People and bring a gift of a horse, which would be a sign of great healing between the Nations.
In 2008 we held an honoring ceremony at Pickerel Lake, inviting the Big Drum Societies.
We honored the memory of Tail Feather Woman with a Horse Dance and Puppy ceremony, two ceremonies the Anishinabe had lost.
This summer we will begin a ceremonial Horse Ride from the site of Pickerel Lake where Tail Feather Woman’s vision took place on the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Reservation. The ride will begin on June 6th covering a 250-mile journey to Bdote (aka Fort Snelling area) arriving for an opening ceremony on June 18th to start World Peace and Prayer Day activities. The riders from the west will participate in a Horse Dance on June 19th.
The memory of Tail Feather Woman will be known!

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This year marks the 43 anniversary of the assassination of ML King, Jr. Co-producer Heather Gray spoke briefly about the events around the assassination on the Just Peace program last week. Below is the article she wrote in 2006 about the assassination and funeral.
There was a lot happening then –It was a lesson for a lot of us.
Peace, Heather

http://www.counterpunch.org/gray04102006.html
April 10, 2006
A Month of Infamy, 38 Years Ago
Atlanta and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By HEATHER GRAY
In 1968, the tragic events in the first week of April turned the world upside down. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis on Thursday, April 4. He was there to support sanitation workers who were on strike. In a recent interview with Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now", Harry Belafonte described the sequence of events that day. He was in Atlanta when Coretta King received the news of her husband's death. The grieving Mrs. King asked him to help select the clothes for her deceased husband's showing and funeral. She expressed her concern, like all the rest of us in America, about the aftermath of his assassination and what she could or should do. Belafonte recommended that she continue in the support of the Memphis workers. She did exactly that.
On Monday, April 8, the day before her husband's funeral, Mrs. King was in Memphis marching with the sanitation workers. This remarkably brave and determined woman, along with her three oldest children, marched in silence in the company of 15,000 supporters from all over the country. Mrs. King told the crowd, "His work must go on.We are concerned about not only the Negro poor but the poor all over America and all over the world. Every man deserves a right to a job and an income so that he can pursue liberty, life and happiness."
I was in Atlanta at that time as well. Earlier in the week a Chinese friend who taught at Spelman College in Atlanta had asked me to attend an event and spend the night in the campus dorms. That was my plan. Little did my friend or I know how events that week would dramatically affect us all. Dr. King was assassinated on Thursday and by the weekend his body was in state at Sister's Chapel on the Spelman campus.
In the introduction to his excellent book "Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement 1957-1967" (2005) Harry Lefever provides a brief history of Spelman. It is "the nation's oldest and best-known black liberal arts college for women, founded in 1881.In 1929, Spelman signed an Agreement of Affiliation with Morehouse College and Atlanta University, two black institutions located directly across the street from Spelman." Ultimately other black schools of higher learning in the adjoining location joined the agreement. "Today, the total consortium of six institutions, known as the Atlanta University Center (AUC), represents the largest affiliation of predominantly black institutions in the United States." Dr. King received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in 1948.
That weekend a long line of mourners stood outside Sister's Chapel to honor the fallen leader. The silence was deafening. It was April, the onset of Spring, and I stood there shivering. All you could hear was the sound of feet slowly walking toward the chapel and people crying. As we walked into the Chapel toward the coffin, you saw men on either side of the coffin wiping away the tears that fell on the glass over Martin King's body. Only later did I learn that because so many people were crying, resulting in tears cascading into the coffin and over Dr. King, that a decision was made to cover it with glass. Once by the coffin I observed this physically small, yet great man of peace, and found it virtually impossible to believe that his resounding, powerful voice and message were no more. It was an incredibly sad moment to witness his still body and to even think of the contemptible violence that killed him. But I was also angry. I kept thinking "What now? What on earth is now in store for America?"
By Monday, April 8, people starting arriving into Atlanta for the funeral. I drove for the Student Non-Violent Committee (SNCC) to greet people arriving at the airport. My parents and hundreds of others were doing the same in their own cars. Along with two SNCC students from Atlanta University, the first person I escorted from the airport was Ralph Bunche. Dr. Bunche was the first black Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He had received the award in 1950 for his negotiations in the creation of the State of Israel after World War II. In 1968 he was an Undersecretary of the United Nations and was representing the UN at the King funeral. The City of Atlanta had sent its Vice Mayor Sam Massell to accompany Dr. Bunche, but he insisted on coming with us SNCC folks instead. Arrangements had been made for him at Atlanta's Regency Hyatt, but he insisted on staying at Paschals, Atlanta's renowned Black owned hotel and restaurant on Hunter Street, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. So here I was, driving Dr. Bunche, who sat in the passenger seat of my little car. His son was squeezed into the back with the other SNCC students. Bunche's son had brought his tennis racket. Life goes on I realized!
Lyndon Johnson was the U.S. President at the time. Johnson had decided to send his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, to the funeral. We were told that this decision was made because of Humphrey's renowned advocacy for civil rights. That being the case, protocol called for U Thant, the UN General Secretary at the time, to send someone under him of rank at the UN, such as Ralph Bunche, so as not to up-stage Johnson.
Interestingly, Bunche had been one of prominent Black leaders in 1967 encouraging the NAACP to write a statement criticizing King's opposition to the Vietnam War. Bunche said King should not be both a civil rights leaders and an antiwar advocate and that he needed to be one or the other. He later called King to apologize for his public statement and that he agreed with King's position on the war. King complained that Bunche did not have the courage to state his views in public.
The next person I picked up at the airport was Allard Lowenstein, an attorney in the movement, and one of his colleagues. He first wanted to pay his respects to Mrs. King. I drove them to her house that was surrounded by at least a hundred or more people. Next, he wanted to greet Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, known as King's right hand man, who was to take over the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), now vacated by King. Lowenstein said that this time he was taking me into the house with him. We drove to Reverend Abernathy's house and what a dramatic experience this was.
To set the stage, King had just been assassinated. No one knew what this meant exactly. No one knew what other violence could be expected. It was not known how white and black communities across the country would respond or what challenges and threats where ahead in the movement. It was assumed, of course, that the work was to be increasingly more dangerous.
As we walked into the Abernathy house there were four men sitting in silence in the living room. The Reverend was resting at the time. Then we walked into the kitchen where Mrs. Abernathy was on the phone. Suddenly, here I was, a young white student who had never met Juanita Abernathy. Once off the phone she grabs my hand, holds on to it and recounts the events of the past few days. For some five minutes or so, she described her husband's frightening experience of being at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where King had been killed just five days ago, and how nervous and concerned she was about her husband taking over the leadership of SCLC. I stood there in awe and silently sympathized.
Then Reverend Abernathy appeared. He seemed rested and congenial. I was amazed at his composure but then thought what else could he do? Everyone knew the work had to continue. We all shook hands, spoke briefly, and I drove Lowenstein and his friend into town.
The funeral was on Tuesday, April 9 at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta--affectionately known as the King church. I joined the funeral march through the City of Atlanta. The Reverend James Orange, of Birmingham protest fame, had organized the mule drawn funeral cart to take Dr. King to his resting place. Thousands of us of all races followed the cart while holding hands and singing an abundance of chants. It was a movement funeral to be sure. One of the most memorable experiences that day was walking in front of the Georgia State Capitol. A wire fence barricade, along with the ominous presence of military sentries, surrounded it. As was intended, the whole area seemed bleak and foreboding. The arch segregationist and erratic Lester Maddox was Georgia's governor at the time. I fully expected him to run out of the building at any moment, stand on the Capitol steps, and shout all kinds of curses at us.
There has been and will continue to be speculation as to why J. Edgar Hoover's FBI under the Johnson administration intensified its surveillance and propaganda against King. It was known, for one, that Johnson was furious about King's outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War, but it is also clear that King was shifting his emphasis to economic justice. While economic justice had always been a part of his message, the primary focus of civil rights and voting rights took precedence in the early movement work. By 1964 the Civil Rights Bill had passed in Congress and in 1965 the Voting Rights Act was a reality. All of this took enormous energy and a death toll. But King and others acknowledged that if there was the right to go to a hotel, what was the point if you couldn't pay the bill?
At the end of his life King was advocating for the economic rights of sanitation workers in Memphis and this was just the beginning. SCLC was in the planning stages of the national Poor People's Campaign march to be held in Washington, DC on April 22. On April 3 in Memphis, in his last speech, King called for boycotts against Wonder Bread, Hart's Bread, Sealtest Milk and, importantly, Coca Cola, for their appalling and unfair hiring practices. He encouraged everyone to follow through on this and to put pressure where it hurts. He said "if something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed."
In relation to the loss of Dr. King., years later I have often thought about insightful and powerful song by "Sweet Honey and the Rock" about Stephen Biko, the black leader who was killed by South African authorities in 1977 They sang, "You can kill one human body, I see ten thousand Bikos!" It rings true. You can kill the messenger, but not the message. As Lefever states in his book on Spelman College activism, that while he focused on individuals in the movement "it is clear" he said, "that their successes were much more than 'individual' successes. The study reveals the significance of the 'group' context in their actions." This has been true all over the U.S. and the world. A Filipino organizer once told me, "You can't organize yourself, who have to organize yourselves."
But it is also rather sobering to realize that when the economic or civil status quo of western "white" dominance is seriously challenged, countless young leaders of color all over the world have either been killed directly by those of us of European descent or by our proxies. Harry Belafonte describes King once telling him that given the outrageously violent and unjust behavior of white America that they were attempting to "integrate" into a burning house. Belafonte asked what should be done. King said, "we all need to become firemen"--and firewomen I might add. Indeed!
Heather Gray is the producer of "Just Peace" on WRFG-Atlanta 89.3 FM covering local, regional, national and international news. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and can be reached at hmcgray@earthlink.net.

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Celebratin​g Human Sacrifice

Dear Sharon,
In Washington, DC, the leaders of both parties are celebrating. “Woo-hoo, we made a deal! Isn’t that great?!”
Well, it depends on the deal.
There is one particular part of the federal budget that I’ve been following closely for the past couple of weeks. Since March 30th. When Rajiv Shah, the head of the US Agency for International Development, testified that Republican budget cuts would kill 70,000 children.
“We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 [the original Republican budget proposal] would lead to 70,000 kids dying,” he said.
“Of that 70,000, 30,000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled back specifically. The other 40,000 is broken out as [follows:] 24,000 would die because of a lack of support for immunizations and other investments, and 16,000 would [die] because of a lack of skilled attendants at birth.”
Now, admittedly, all these children deliberately chose to be born outside the United States. To make things worse, they selected parents living in poverty. And, of course, most of them have brown skin.
Notwithstanding all that, I would very much prefer to see these children alive. Maybe it’s just me, but it disturbs me to think that 70,000 innocent children will die in pain from malaria or some other horrible disease, or die at birth because no one in the neighborhood happens to know how to perform an episiotomy.
Not to mention the mothers. Among women, at the time when my mother was born, the second leading cause of death was birth. Childbirth, specifically. That’s still true in some other parts of the world.
After I heard about Shah’s testimony, I looked up the bill he was referring to, H.R. 1. It’s true. In Title XI of the bill, the section on the State Department and Foreign Operations appropriations, there are big cuts.
Then yesterday, when the Republicans posted their new budget bill H.R. 1473 online, I looked that up, too. And, starting on Page 364, I saw big cuts in the State Department and Foreign Operations appropriations. Not quite as big as H.R. 1. But still big.
Personally, I’d like to know how many children H.R. 1473 is going to kill. But no one in Washington, DC is likely to provide that figure, because the leaders of both parties are so busy celebrating the “compromise.”
But there is no compromise, there is no middle ground, between life and death.
The record for human sacrifice was established in 1487, by the Aztecs. Aztec priests slaughtered 80,000 prisoners of war, to celebrate their new temple. (The event was loosely portrayed in Mel Gibson’s 2006 movie Apocalypto.)
So no matter how many children H.R. 1473 may kill, it won’t set a record. At most, it will earn the silver medal for cruelty.
I just wish that someone, in either party, would make the case that the federal budget is not simply 500 pages of large numbers. It also represents our collective effort to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and heal the sick. To help people accomplish whatever it is that they can accomplish in life, unburdened and undefeated by poverty, bigotry, hunger, unemployment, disease, racism, sexism and ignorance. Our collective effort to fulfill the last four words of the Pledge of Allegiance: “and justice for all.”
Ain’t that America?
Courage,
Alan Grayson

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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

On Where I've Been The Last Week or So

On Where I've Been The Last Week or So
On Sunday before last, Sharon and I went to Savannah for the day. The next morning when I got up to do my usual walk around the property, one of the gates that I climb over to keep the little stallion from getting in with the big gelding and getting himself killed had had the hinges tampered with (and the hotwire shorted so they could sneak over the fence) so that it feel as I was crossing it. Now if I had not been trained how to fall in the Martial Arts, old Dave would not be typing this. But as it was, my neck, back and leg got injured. I got p*ssed. They are too cowardly to meet me face to face at the Eulonia Senior Citizens Center (nuetral ground to me) where I work out on the open field and tell me what they have against me. But the little rat chickens can come while we are away. Then in two days I got a virus. And before anyone tells me to move again, unless you got the money to buy my land, and move us and our dogs and horses, please don't start. So that is why I did not contact anyone for a while. By the way, we wouldn't move any way now because they will have me the rest of their natual lives to contend with because they did this.
Honestly I don't care if it's the Harris Necki Crew with their illegit land claims or some other nut job.
I am going to post this far and wide. So that the world knows what cowards there are in McIntosh County Georgia. Not everyone here is bad. But those who keep coming here win the prize for ignorant rat chicken of the year.
thanx,
Dave

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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