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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS VOLUME 15, ISSUE 003 Distributed by Gary Night Owl EDITORIAL CONTENTS LIST ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK

EDITORIAL By: Gary Smith

O'siyo Brothers and Sister! The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain averted war, solved many issues left over from the Revolution, and opened ten years of largely peaceful trade in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars. One of the principle agreements contained in Article III guaranteed right of passage by Aboriginal Peoples between the United States and Canada. While it does not include Native Peoples on the southern border of the United States, Congress has acted to grant similar rights of travel to Mexican cross-border tribes. Aboriginal rights Article III of the Jay Treaty declared the right of aboriginal peoples (people indigenous to Canada and/or the US) to trade and travel between the United States and Canada, which was then a territory of Great Britain. This right was restated in section 289 of the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act: Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the right of American Indians born in Canada to pass the borders of the United States, but such right shall extend only to persons who possess at least 50 per centum of blood of the American Indian race.[1] Article III is the very article President George W. Bush is determined to nullify. Please read the following from the August 28, 2006 issue of Indian Country Today. The entire article is available at http://www.kumeyaay.com/news/news_detail.html?id=4058 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Congress of American Indians responds to border concerns 08/28/2006 - TUCSON AZ by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today The Bush administration recently initiated efforts that would nullify the benefits of the Jay Treaty, which recognizes the right of border passage to indigenous peoples at the northern border; further, the administration planned to press for new laws to require DNA tests to determine Indian blood, according to Louis Guassac, executive director of the Kumeyaay Border Task Force. "The Indian tribes said, 'No way,'" Guassac said, speaking at a border workshop hosted by the Alianza Indigena sin Fronteras/Indigenous Alliance Without Borders in Tucson. Guassac said that in response to these plans of the Bush administration and other new regulations for border-crossers, the National Congress of American Indians has passed two resolutions. The resolutions call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to enter into government-to-government consultation with Native tribes on border issues, including consultation on a proposed national Indigenous Identification Card for border pass and re-pass. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is essential to the Native Nations along both borders that these rights of passage be retained. The 110th Congress of the United States was just sworn in. Make sure your Representatives and Senators know their Indian constituency is watching how they handle this serious issue, as well as the protracted Indian Trust Suit. 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 003 FOR ARTICLES GOT TO WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News Editorial Section: . Article III Of The Jay Treaty - Tribes Turn To Court Over Fund `mismanagement' - Cobell Settlement Concepts Offer Remains Viable - Ost Pressed On Timetable To Complete Trust Reform - Tribes Need A Focused Political Strategy - Racism An Issue After Beatings In Border Town - USDA Handouts For Native Americans poorly written - Blackfeet Reservation Hit By Severe Windstorm - Maine Tribe's Frustration Flares Anew - Dispute Arises Over County's Road On Trust Land - Report Finds Range Workers Often Abused - Oglala Nation Presses For Pine Ridge Housing - Tribal Officials Say Elder Program Cut - Iron Shell Family Disrespected By Non-Indians - Some State Republicans Upset Over Gas Deal - Virginia Indians Have Support For Recognition Bill - Youths Honor Escapees With Annual 400-Mile Trek - Poarch Creeks Slowly Reclaim Lost Tribal Lands - Wal-Mart Considers New Supercenter In Cherokee - Drawing Back On Traditions - Tribe Hosts Domestic Violence Seminar - Giago: Newspaper Fills Gap In South Dakota - Yellow Bird:can Do Spirit Could Help Tribes - Jodi Rave: Bush Nominee Withdraws - Luckerman: Wampanoag And Narragansett Cases Sound A Warning - Herrington: Why Won't The BIA Call Back? - Yellow Bird: INMED needs Tribes' help - Giago: Apache Journalist Opens Doors In Media - Imaginary Line Issued For All Onkwehonwe - Government Supports Tellqelmucw Secwepemc Society - Logging Halt Sought Until Leaders Recognized - Deseronto Quarry Blocked By Mohawk Protest - Ontario Must Pay For Consultations To End Dispute - Kanesatake Mohawk Nation Fights For Mirabel Land - Precedent-Setting Urban Reserve Subdivision - Gitxsan Win Time In Kemess Dispute - Big Haul For Indian Drug Unit - Family Of Indian Killed By Park Police Suing N.J. - Peltier: When The Truth Doesn't Matter - Native Justice -- Montana Pitches Prerelease Centers -- New Address For Manuel Redwoman - Rustywire: Albuquerque Indian School - Verse: Hawaiian Book Of Days - Lee Goins Poem: Eyes Closed - Aboriginal Business Symposium In Saskatoon - 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: "Indigenous peoples haven't known any borders. Colonial borders are new. It's ironic that essentially white men of privilege who created the category of white - that it is they who determine who gets permitted into our lands." -- Winona LaDuke, founding director, White Earth Land Recovery Project

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