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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS
VOLUME 15, ISSUE 013
Distributed by Gary Night Owl
EDITORIAL
CONTENTS LIST
ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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EDITORIAL
By: Gary Smith |
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O'siyo Brothers and Sister!
The following news snippet on the North Dakota
Public Radio website
caught my eye:
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http://publicbroadcasting.net/ndpr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1057781§ionID=1
PRAIRIE REGION NEWS
NATIVE AMERICAN STRESSERS REAL
Tracy Fugere March 23, 2007
BISMARCK, ND (2007-03-23) A Native American psychiatrist from Colorado
is
sharing his findings on how common trauma is in Native American
communities and the consequences that follow.
Prairie Public's Tracy Fugere has the story.
Copyright c. 2007 NDPR.
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My first reaction was, "Well, Duh... we were forced to lose our
language, our way of life and our traditional ways of governing, moved
to isolated pockets that were deemed 'not valuable to the dominant
society' given substandard health care and education. What response did
anyone with a nickels worth of sense really expect?"
The next reaction was disgust and anger. In a state with a large Indian
population where the effects of becoming marginalized citizens in our
land is manifested with alcoholism, drug abuse and a high rate of
suicides was reduced to a broadcast promotion.
Clicking on the promo and listening resulted in a decent discussion of
the PTSD like stresses Native Americans are subjected to.
I can't help but wonder how many must die before the United States and
Canada will quit making Native Americans third class and third world
citizens before they each determine Stalag-like ghettos micro-managed by
the BIA through contrived copies of the US and Canadian governments is a
failure.
Like any human beings we need real choices, real opportunities and the
right to govern our nations and our homes in our traditional ways, not
the way they are now.
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 013
FOR ARTICLES GOT TO
WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News
Editorial Section: . Indian Country Stress
- South Dakota to Include American Indian Education
- Helping Families Understand Value of College
- Indians Criticize Plan To End School Program
- Comments Regarding Blackfeet/Montana Water Compact
- Sharing And Restoring The Heritage Of Indians
- Glass Skywalk Opens Above The Grand Canyon
- Red Lake Holds Healing Day
- Krieger Backs Out Of Land Deal With State
- EBC Project To Put River Cane Close To Home
- A Mother, A Daughter, A Warrior
- Court Allows UKB Suit Over Arkansas River
- Tribes Establish Economic Development Commission
- Alaska Natives Push Congress On Global Warming
- Giago: Venezuela Steps Up For Indian Nations
- Catt-Iron Shell: The Dead Eye Of The Storm
- Wagamese: One Native Life
- Miller: Cutting Native Peoples' Health Care
- Jodi Rave: Old West Ignorance Alive In Butcher
- Chief Matchewan: Blockade Of Highway 117
- Ross: Being Zapatistas Where We Live
- Colonial Collapse Of Western Hemisphere
- Editorial: Swarming
- Mohawk Protesters Take Over Deseronto Quarry
- Review: My Life Is My Sun Dance
- Native Justice-- Deer: Widening The Gap
- Rustywire: Enemy Way Comes With War
- Verse: Hawaiian Book Of Days
- Lee Goins Poem: Struck By A Poem
- 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:"If America is a
shining beacon of hope for legal immigrants perhaps the laws should be
adjusted to make it a reality for the illegal immigrants. They also see
America as a place where dreams can be lived. Ironically, most of the
illegal immigrants are Indians, or Indios as they are known in Mexico,
and in Central and South America. Most of their ancestors did not come
over on the Mayflower or on the Spanish galleons. They were indigenous
to the Western Hemisphere." --Tim Giago, president Native American
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