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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS VOLUME 15, ISSUE 039 Distributed by Gary Night Owl EDITORIAL CONTENTS LIST ELDER QUOTE OF THE WEEK

EDITORIAL By: Gary Smith

O'siyo Brothers and Sister! The home page of the Prosecuting Attorney of Nez Perce County Idaho proclaims the following: "The Nez Perce County Prosecutor's Office takes pride in providing services for victims, citizens and law enforcement officers. Our mission statement is "Do the right thing, at the the right time, in the right way". We have an experienced and professional staff of Deputy Prosecutors and office support. We are aggressive, fair and thorough in pursuing accountability for offenders. We are progressive and innovative in our approach toward special victims and the needs of those who have been injured." In this issue's "Native Justice" column we learn about a hate attack on a thirteen-year-old girl. Her crime? ... she is Indian. A white woman and her daughter have been arrested for the beating. (READ COLUMN) I am reminded of an Apache brother who was killed by a racist in Tennessee. The perpetrator had a rap sheet several pages long, and was still walking free after his homicidal attack on an Apache family. He might still be walking free if it were not for letters and calls of outrage from readers of this newsletter. It is true this girl is not dead. She was hospitalized and she and her mother forced to move for their own protection. I assure you if there is not a clear message sent by the prosecutor's office these acts of hate by this woman, her daughter and her sons will not stop here. Please make sure the Prosecuting Attorney and the Nez Perce District Court know they are being watched by concerned citizens. Daniel L Spickler Prosecuting Attorney P.O. Box 1267 Lewiston, ID 83501 Phone: (208) 799-3073 Email:DanSpickler@co.nezperce.id.us NEZ PERCE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT 1230 Main St. P.O. Box 896 Lewiston ID 83501 Phone: (208) 799-3040 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 039 FOR ARTICLES GOT TO WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News Editorial Section: . Stop The HATE Now! - Senators Probing Delay In Tribal Recognition - Lumbee Leader To Speak At Recognition Hearing - Little Shell To Testify: Recognition Frustrations - Lumbee Recognition Fight Ongoing - Misrepresentations Cloud Juaneno Application - Dorgan Proposes Doubling Tribal College Funding - Drilling Surge Projected Across West - Native American Veterans Seen At Risk - Minn. Indians Want More Recognition Of Tribal IDs - Museum Returns Stolen Lock of Sitting Bull's Hair - In Oklahoma, Native Tongues Dying Fast - Muscogee Passing Tradition on thru Documentary - Bison Face Hunting at Wyoming Refuge - American Indian Group Gets Cheap Lobbying - Cobell: Upcoming Trial Tackles Important Issues - Yellow Bird: Dreaming, Dawdling at Dahlen Esker - Giago: I Remember Kyle - Jodi Rave: Put Indigenous Declaration to Good Use - Editorial: Shameful Inaction on Indian Health Care - MNA Adopt Their Own Harvesting Laws - Youth Programs Receive Much Needed Funding - Saskatchewan Tackles Affordable Housing Crisis - Red-X Escapes Guantanamo Gulag! - Tribal Judges: Case of Killed Whale is Personal - Hopi Council Approves Appeal of Court Decision - Native Justice-- Native American Girl Attacked-- Lewiston Woman Jailed in Alleged Hate Crime - Rustywire: My Granddaughter Sings - Del "Abe" Jones Poem: POW/MIA Recognition Day - Turtle Island Project: Michigan N.A. Roundtable - Upcoming Events

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"Some day the Earth will weep, She will beg for Her life, She will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when She dies, you too, will die." --John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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.'" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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--------- "RE: Native Justice" --------- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:11:24 -0700 From: Janet Smith [owlstar@bellsouth.net] Subj: NA News Item -- Native American Girl attacked-- Lewiston Woman jailed in alleged Hate Crime Reading between the lines of the stories below, there's a strong suggestion that "white power" hate activities against Native Americans in Nez Perce County have been building, and overlooked or tolerated by authorities for some time. What suggests this to me? 1) The report that drive-by verbal harassment had been reported previously by both these victims and others in the community. 2) The fact that the assailants were of mixed ages and genders and had come to this particular Native American family's door, and began shouting race-hate slogans, and then assaulted one of the family's children. 3) Afterward, intimidation continued until the family had to be moved. This cannot be just a teen grudge matter, kids out on a lark, or drunks or druggies on a rampage. It was planned and organized too well to have just materialized out of thin air. If the authorities of Nez Perce county have been blind to this building white power movement until it puts a child the hospital and her family must be moved to protect them, the question must be asked - are they just inept, or are they letting a violent anti-Indian movement build for some reason? WE must demand these authorities do their job, do it well, and do it quickly. Can you imagine this happening to a black, white, asian, hispanic, muslim or gay home? There would be marching in the streets. There SHOULD be marching in the streets. The fact that this isn't a nationally distributed news item speaks volumes. http://www.khq.com/global/story.asp?s=7088931 NATIVE AMERICAN GIRL ATTACKED September 17, 2007 LEWSITON, Idaho. - Right now, five people have been arrested after a Native American girl is attacked and beaten outside of her apartment. Police say the 13-year-old girl was in front of her apartment, on September 12th, and several people were shouting "white power." The girl responded "what about Native Pride?" That's when two white females attacked the girl. The girl was struck in the face, knocked to the ground and kicked. She was able to escape inside her apartment. Identified and arrested for malicious harassament was 40-year-old Jill Grant. Her 21-year-old daughter has an outstanding arrest warrant because of the attack. On Thursday September 13th, police say a red sedan drove by the victim's apartment building shouting "white power." Saturday September 15th, 16-year-old Christian M. Grant, Jill Grant's son, and David C. Moody, 18, were arrested outside the victim's apartment building shouting "white power." Both are charged with intimidation of a witness. Approximatley one hour later, Mike S. Moody, 22, and Jason R. Grant, 19, were arrested in front of the victim's apartment shouting "white power." Grant and Moody are older brothers of Christian Grant and David Moody. Both are charged with intimidation of a witness. The victim and her mother have been moved to a different location. Copyright c. 2000 - 2007 WorldNow and KHQ. All Rights Reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEWISTON WOMAN JAILED IN ALLEGED HATE CRIME AGAINST AMERICAN INDIAN Associated Press September 14, 2007 LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - A Lewiston woman has been jailed on suspicion of committing a hate crime after a 13-year-old American Indian girl was apparently beaten earlier this week. Forty-year-old Jill R. Grant is charged with one count of felony malicious harassment following the alleged scuffle on Wednesday. The teen reportedly suffered minor injuries - and police said phrases including "white power" were uttered. Witnesses told police that Grant and her daughter were reportedly part of a group that included four to five young men congregated outside a Lewiston apartment building and allegedly had been yelling phrases including "white power" and "white pride." The girl, who suffered injuries to her face and arm, was treated and released from a local hospital. Copyright c. 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Copyright c. 2004-2007 KPAX-8, WorldNow, Montana's News Station. BACK TO TOP

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