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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS VOLUME 14, ISSUE 016 Distributed by Gary Night Owl EDITORIAL CONTENTS LIST ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK

EDITORIAL By: Gary Smith

O'siyo Brothers and Sister! The Lovely Janet offers some thoughts about the proposed American Indian embassy.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indian country is abuzz with talk about a renewed proposal to establish an Embassy of Tribal Nations to represent US Native American tribes as sovereign nations. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has up $1 million in a challenge grant toward the estimated $12M cost of purchasing a house on Embassy Row in Washington DC, and the Prairie Island Sioux Community and former BIA chief Dave Anderson have each contributed $50,000. The reasons establishing a credible Tribal Nations presence among the world's embassies are numerous. Perhaps the most obvious is that it's one more step toward advancing the sovereignty of Indian tribes. But there are other advantages, too. At present, the only resource Indians have for dealing with the US government is through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). While the BIA employs Indians, and its stated purpose is to represent Indian nations' interests, that duty is severely compromised by its employees primary allegiance to the US government, which has repeatedly shown that its interests remain the eradication of Indians as an identifiable cultural and political community. A representative group that truly represented Indian nations and that had the ear not only of the US government, but of the world, could make a positive difference in how Indians are perceived and treated. Legislators who need information about Indian nations in their own or other states would have a resource other than a US administrative agency. Is it worth diverting $12M from other pressing Indian country needs? Possibly, if that investment results in the enforcement of treaty agreements, a world-wide sounding board when our women are sterilized, our lands are taken our consent or fair payment, and our nations's resources negotiated away in sweetheart corporate deals -- and still our landowners are not paid. Our Indian nations, who have given so much to those who settled in America, may finally be treated equally to the poorest third-world nations overseas. +/// Janet Smith owlstar@bellsouth.net /*/+ P. O. Box 672168 OwlStar Trading Post + / * Marietta, GA 30008, U.S.A. http://www.owlstar.com * + Dohiyi Ani Oginalii Gary Smith (*,*) wotanging@bellsouth.net P. O. Box 672168 (`-') gars@nanews.org Marietta, GA 30006, U.S.A. ===w=w=== http://www.nanews.org

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CONTENTS LIST OF ARTICLES IN VOLUME 14, ISSUE 016 FOR ARTICLES GOT TO WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News - Cobell Discusses Lawsuit Against U.S. Government - Court Told Judge Removal Would Send Wrong Signal - Trust Fund Case Goes Before Appeals Court Again - Vermont Recognizes Abenaki Rights - Dine' Citizen Army Wants Water Grab Stopped - Native Parents Get Pep Talk From Tribal Leader - Battling Child Abuse On Reservations - Tribe Revives Idea Of An American Indian Embassy - Agave Harvest Renews Tribal Food Tradition - Raytheon to Help NA Firms Win Defense Contracts - Push Is On For Medal Of Honor For 'Chief' - Don't Let Bush Cut Health Care For Urban Indians - Plan To Prevent Federal Health Funding Cut - Legality Of Reservation Clinic Is Questioned - American Indian Women And Activism (Part Three) - Arctic Ice Pack Losing Ground - Miller: International Law And Indigenous Rights - Giago: Sovereignty Can Have Its Growing Pains - Yellow Bird: Panel Probes Diversity Issues - Yellow Bird: Why Is Ethanol's Price Rising? - Compensation The Right Move - First Nations Look To Prosper From Port Project - HCP - Colonial Psychiatric Disorder Diagnosed - Chiapas 'Peace House' Spreads Solidarity - Native Prisoner -- Religious Rights Being Abused - History: Carlisle Indian School - Rustywire: Comes with War - Del "Abe" Jones Poem: Chief Joseph - Next Stop: Albuquerque - Strides In Effort To Preserve Keres Language - Natives Want Their Dying Language Taught

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"There have been 17 decisions in this case, and we've won every one of them." "But the government still delays this case at every chance ... They will try every trick that you can believe." "If this had happened in the private sector, there would be people in jail." ~~Elouise Cobell, Blackfeet, Lead Plaintiff in the Trust Fund Lawsuit

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