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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS VOLUME 15, ISSUE 011 Distributed by Gary Night Owl EDITORIAL CONTENTS LIST ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK

EDITORIAL By: Gary Smith

O'siyo Brothers and Sister! The forced sterilization of Native Women by the IHS has been documented in this newsletter, and other Native American reporting venues; but ignored to a large extent by mainstrem media. Now, BBC Radio Four, the UK's most respected speech based radio network, is sending an all women production team to the US to interview as many women as are willing to tell their story. They assure all there will be complete confidentiality. This genocidal practice by the very government service entrusted to provide health care to American Indians is a shameful story that must not be kept in the dark. If you are among those women who had your life giving gift taken by the IHS please let your voice be heard. Let the world hear about the devil you faced. That same IHS has been instrumental in making sure medical health has been denied to urban Indians. With all the noise being raised about the treatment of military injured at Walter Reed, please get word to congressional representatives that Indians are being allowed to die due to denial of medical procedures. DO NOT LET THE GENOCIDE BY IHS CONTINUE! 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 15, ISSUE 011 FOR ARTICLES GOT TO WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News Editorial Section: . IHS Genocide - BBC Radio Four: Mistreatment of Native Women - Indian health Rations in Walter Reed's Shadow - Some Urban Indians Denied Care at Request of IHS - Bush Admin. Takes Limited View of Indian Health - Interior's Problems Due to Lack of Accountability - Interior Department Still in Denial Over Cobell - Do We Need a New Eagle Feather Law? - 9th Circuit Blocks Snowmaking at Sacred Peaks - OP/ED: About Time for Little Shell Tribe - Demotion Offer Accepted by Board of Game Chairman - Native American Trackers to Hunt Bin Laden - American Indian Group Plans W. Ky. Memorial - School Celebrates Historic Recognition - Tribes Mourn Loss of Falls - Largest Single Corporate Acquisition by a Tribe - Military Technology Used to Record and Teach - Lakota Educator Brings Traditions to Classroom - Higher Ed Goes On Ute Agenda - Release: Arizona Tribes Meet With Howard Dean - Yellow Bird: Extra! Native Media Center Prospers - Jodi Rave: Rapes Against Native Women On The Rise - Giago: Cherokee Nation Votes Out Freedmen - Yellow Bird: Fight Over Land Never Ends - OPDDIC And URCI Aggressions Against Zapatistas - Chiapas March Turns Ugly - Inuit Say Carbon Emissions Violate Their Rights - Government Funds Sask. Me'tis Group For Women - Group Gets Funding For Womens' Violence Issues - Healing Project To Get Assistance From Feds - Custody Fight Of White Woman, Seneca Man - Supreme Court Won't Hear Jurisdiction Cases - American Indian Trackers Vs. Smugglers - Native Justice -- Indian Inmates' Religious Rights Supported - Rustywire: She Comes From Lechee - Del "Abe" Jones Poem: Walter Reed Hospital - Upcoming Events

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Along the U.S.-Mexico border, the body count continues to pile up daily. Meanwhile, the Minutemen patrol the U.S.-Mexico border and shameless politicians find it easy to denounce illegal immigration as the cause of all the nation's problems - including linking it with "the war on terror." Amidst all the clatter, the only views not being heard are the ones that matter most. Thus here, we bring you a truly historic column, featuring the views of those that have come before us to these lands: American Indians: "Are 'immigrants' the appropriate designation for the indigenous peoples of North America, for enslaved Africans and for the original European settlers? No. Are 'immigrants' the appropriate designation for Mexicans who migrate for work to the United States? No. They are migrant workers crossing a border created by US military force. Many crossing that border now are also from Central America, from the small countries that were ravaged by US military intervention in the 1980s and who also have the right to make demands on the United States. So, let's stop saying 'this is a nation of immigrants.' " -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - mixed-Cherokee activist, professor, writer

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