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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS
VOLUME 15, ISSUE 044
Distributed by Gary Night Owl

EDITORIAL
CONTENTS LIST
ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK
EDITORIAL
By: Gary Smith
 

O'siyo Brothers and Sister!

The lead story in this issue, "Alcohol exposure affects Generations", reminds us it isn't just meth and crack that are destroying our lives, our youth, our nations. We still live with the specter of the first devil presented to us by the Europeans, alcohol.

My relatives, I will not dwell on or belabor the obvious. These drugs, and they are all drugs, solve nothing. These drugs destroy from within.

These drugs leave a legacy of hopeless despair.

You cannot teach your children to "Just say `No.'" if you are yourself hiding your humanity behind a mask that will suffocate your will to be a human being and your will to live.

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 044
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Editorial Section: . Continuing Deadly Curse Of Alcohol
- Alcohol Exposure Affects Generations
- Attorney To Testify Against Interior In Trust Case
- Bia Official Tells About Accounts
- Cobell Historical Accounting Trial Wraps Up
- Navajos Seek Funds To Clear Uranium Contamination
- Uranium Legacy Outrages Congress
- Ski Resort Criticized Tribes In Sacred Site Case
- Bennett: Family That Gave Land Has No Regrets
- Tribe's Nets Spark Sports, Rights Rift
- Two Tribes Among Hardest Hit By California Fires
- Rincon Lose 65 Structures: 'We Were Left Behind'
- Wildfires Burning Up Southern Cal. Reservations
- Harris Fire Began At Controversial Blackwater Site
- Senators Push For Action On Lumbee Recognition
- Bush Blasts Native Hawaiian Self-Determination
- House Passes Native Hawaiian Bill
- Oldest Member Of Spirit Lake To Celebrate 94 Years
- Hopi Teacher Wins Spirit Of The Heard Award
- Views: South Dakota And Native Americans
- Sho-Ban To Meet With Governor About Fuel Tax
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Sign Fuel Tax Agreement
- Navajo Council Sends Appreciation To Sen. Jon Kyl
- Convention To Be Broadcast In Native Languages
- O'odum Return From Encuentro
- Editorial: Sac And Fox Nation Brings Hope To City
- Yellow Bird: Tribe Uses Naming Rights With Care
- Clark: The Curse Of Chief Wahoo
- Jodi Rave: Native Violence Topic Of Conference
- Galanda And Juarez: 21st Century Indian Wars
- Confusion Between Great Law & Handsome Lake Code
- Arguments Delayed In Und Nickname Case
- Judge Hearing Case Was In Group With Indian Mascot
- Und Gets Nickname Reprieve
- Mille Lacs Enforcement: The Sticking Point
- Native Justice-- Native Activists Traveling To Omaha To Aid Family
- Rustywire: My Son And The Sick Old Man
- Lee Goins Poem: One Life One Song
- Native Discoveries & Spanish Artifacts Unearthed
- Autumn Moon Powwow Nov. 3-4

 
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"We're coming down to share our story."
"As we sobered up, we started to deal with the sexual abuse in our community and residential school abuse. We've gone through all that."
"We are definitely alive, and ever so aware - as before we were in a drunken stupor, those things didn't matter and people lived and died and that was an acceptable way of life."
"But now we're involved in our lives. We hurt. We cry. We heal." --- Phyllis Chelsea, Shuswap

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As historian Patricia Nelson Limerick summarized in "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West...
"Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians, let intermarriage proceed as it had for centuries, and eventually Indians will be defined out of existence. When that happens, the federal government will be freed of its persistent 'Indian problem.'"

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Once a language is lost, it is gone forever. Of the 300 original Native languages in North America, only 175 exist today. * 125 of these are no longer learned by children. * 55 are spoken by 1 to 6 elders; when they die, their language will disappear. * Without action, only 20 languages will survive the next 50 years. Source: Indigenous Language Institute

 

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