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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS VOLUME 14, ISSUE 018 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 has a few words in support of our Shoshone relatives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When is theft not stealing? It's when the victims are members of an Indian tribe, the property being taken is land, and it is accomplished slowly, and then legitimized by administrative fiat of a U.S. government agency. It's when a larger, better armed country shoves its theft down the throats of a smaller, less powerful nation -- and none of the larger nation's citizens notice, and no other nations rise up to say its wrong, That's about to change. Since the Treaty of Ruby Valley in 1863, the Western Shoshone have done the peaceful, neighborly thing and allowed people not of their country access to passage across their land. Never have they agreed in a treaty to cede that land. Never has any court granted title to that land to any non-Indian. Only after a government agency declared that the land had been taken by "gradual encroachment," did the Supreme Court rubberstamp the policy. What do the Western Shoshone want? Well, they want title to the 85 percent of their former land that is held by the US Government (they aren't looking for the 15 percent of the land that white folks have squatted on...just the government land). They want to pursue the ranching lifestyle of their grandparents. They want to benefit from the minerals discovered on the land. And they DARN sure do NOT want an enormous bomb blast stirring up the radioactive dust from past nuclear tests, nor do they want the nuclear tests that are sure to follow taking place on their ancestral lands. If you'd like to know more, see: http://www.wsdp.org/backgrnd.htm +/// 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 018 FOR ARTICLES GOT TO WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News - Western Shoshone Winning Converts - Tribe Finally Paid For Health Services Contract - Indians Left Out Of Anti-Meth Bill - Budget-Cutting Endangers Indian Clinics - Students Join Protest For Urban Health Care - Bear Butte Sturgis Rally - Another Chapter In Continuing Tobacco Tax Saga - Tribe To Establish Office For Elders - Tribes Reflect On A Century Of Accomplishments - Firm Fined For Cheating Tribe - Indian Reservations Getting Air Ambulances - Navajo To Battle Federal Budget Cuts - Why Not A Chapter For Navajos Living On The HPL - Effort To Save Native American Burial Grounds - NCAA Rejects Two More Challenges To Mascot Policy - Morelos Residents Fight Back Against Garbage Dump - N'quatqua Blockade Portage Road At D'arcy - Standoff Story Skewed By The Media - Ottawa Finally Agrees To Negotiate - Six Nations Negotiates Land Claim - Giago: Censorship In The Mainstream Media - Yellow Bird: A Living Link With Sitting Bull - Harjo: Congress Loses Will For Lobbying Reform - Yellow Bird: School's Lessons Go Beyond Walls - Me'tis Lawyers Prepare To Combat Harper - Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone - B.C. First Nation Back In Court - Winnipeg Should Be Prepared For Protest Camp-Outs - TB Outbreak Leaves Garden Hill Living In Fear - Commission To Look Into Roseau River Rip-Off - Native American Man Sues His Former Employer - Tribes Intervene In Yellowbear Case - Peltier's Appeal Is Rejected - Native Prisoner -- Youth Experiences Opp "Justice" - Rustywire: Navajo Legal Aid & Zuni Yellowhair - Lee Goins Poem: A Tear for My Soul - Book Review: The Divided Ground - Haskell Indian Men's Fast Pitch Tournament

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"I also must share with you that the owner of the Arizona Snowbowl ski facility has expressed an interest in a buyout. For this reason, I will call a meeting of tribal leaders within the region to discuss this important option." "However, if the owner is unreasonable or unwilling to negotiate a fair price, then we will and must continue to fight to save Dook'o'osliid and our Dine' way of life." ~~Joe Shirley, Navajo Nation President

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