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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS VOLUME 14, ISSUE 031 Distributed by Gary Night Owl EDITORIAL CONTENTS LIST ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK

EDITORIAL By: Gary Smith

O'siyo Brothers and Sister! First, a VERY brief look back in history just to set the tone. In 1855 the United States negotiated a treaty with the Blackfeet that included the following guarantees: - Peace to exist with the United States. - Certain territory to belong to the Blackfoot Nation. - No settlements to be made thereon. - Vested rights not affected. For the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota the Black Hills, Paha Sapa, are the center of the world, the place of the gods, where the warriors would go to wait for visions and to speak to the Great Spirit. In 1868, a treaty was signed which granted Paha Sapa to the Sioux forever. Anyone with even a slight knowledge of history knows that neither of the above treaties was honored by the United States, and wholesale theft of Indian lands (often for gold and other resources) became a well established and often repeated pattern. If you think theft of Indian Lands is a trick confined only to the United States and only to the 18th and 19th centuries, think again. As the article in this issue, "Military Returns Land to Aboriginal Band", points out land appropriated for military use from the Tsuu T'ina Nation was just returned after a fifteen year clean-up to remove shrapnel. Former chief of the Tsuu T'ina , Clifford Big Plume, when asked what the band wanted for the land responded, "I want it back, the way it used to be." The invaders - the occupation forces - can't get it through their collective head that Indians simply want their lands. That is true of the Mohawk in Caledonia, the Cree in Grassy Narrows, the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota in the Black Hills of what is now South Dakota... Another article in this issue notes "Six Nations issues will be negotiated in small Chunks". The presumption by the Canadian Government is that the problem is just way to big to swallow in one bite, and it really is a collection of smaller problems. I have a tip for the government negotiators I offer freely: Wherever Indians have been dispossessed by your greed, they don't want your money or your empty promises. They want their lands. 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 031 FOR ARTICLES GOT TO WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News - Cobell Settlement Bill delayed a week in Senate - Cobell worried about settlement Legislation - Settlement appears close on Indian Trust - Breach revealed in Indian trust Ethics Rules - Difference in getting Voting Act renewed - Fighting to save Indigenous Languages - Navajo/Hopi: Freeze amendment opposed - Chief Smith, Chief Douglas present Joint Bill - Vote on the Lumbee Recognition Bill Postponed - Editorial: Poverty and Murder in Lumbee Country - Browning's Bittersweet Ruling - Keweenaw Bay Victory Could Help Landowners - Conference: Toxic Legacy Endangers Land, People - Oklahoma Diabetes Center Signed into Law - Quapaws Open Drug Treatment Center - Sequoyah's Cabin to Become Oklahoma Literary Landmark - White Plume: Ask Others to Respect Our Way of Life - Yellow Bird: Heat from Sundance Lights Up the Soul - Giago: Debunking the myth of Christianity - Jodi Rave: Kennewick Man Stirring Controversy - Opinion: Outsource To Indian Country, Not India - Yellow Bird: A Little Bit Of Prairie In Every Jar - Inuit Sign Language May Get Legal Status - Panel On Fns' Water Quality Starts Hearings - Premiers Renew Kelowna Commitment - Military Returns Land to Calgary Aboriginal Band - Issues Will be Negotiated in Small Chunks - Grassy Narrows Blockaders 'Reclaim' Logging Road - 9 More Arrested for Defending Grassy Narrows - Ottawa Police to Investigate OPP - Debt Suffocating Tribe - Report Cites BIA in Death of Teenager - Navajo President Wants Independent Investigation - Native Prisoner -- Pen-Pal Request -- New Abuse & Discrimination Against NAs at Shelby, MT - Rustywire: I Know You Will Be Ashamed of Me - Lee Goins Poem: Sweet Dreams, My Son - Verse: Hawaiian Book of Days - Upcoming Events

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"This industrialized world depends on a system that doesn't really protect our health or the environment. There are still many environmental justice issues in Indian country that are not getting resolved. Native grass-roots groups and some of our tribal leaders are frustrated and angry." "I foresee an increase of Native activism doing more direct actions on environmental and economic justice issues." ---Tom Goldtooth, Dine' and Mdewakanton Dakota, Executive Director Indigenous Environmental Network

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