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O'siyo Brothers and Sister!
This editorial will be very short and to the
point.
One article in this issue, "Appeal court reserves decision in Stonechild
Case", explains the two cops fired in the Neil Stonechild case managed
to get their appeal decisions reversed. Further, they have petitioned
the Saskatchewan Supreme Court to quash all findings from the hearing.
The inquiry lasted a long time and was very careful how facts and
testimony were dealt with. Further, the way the inquiry was handled and
the findings were lauded by both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, alike.
The appeal totally upheld the findings arrived at by the inquiry.
Now, this reversal based on facts? Nope... on the right of the inquiry
to make the findings it made.
Ask yourself one question:
"What would the results have been if the dead
young man had been non-aboriginal and the officers had been First
Nation?"
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 040
FOR ARTICLES GOT TO
WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News
Editorial Section: . Non-Aboriginal Cops Get
Appeal Reversal On Technicalities
- Tales Of Harassment In Hate Crime Case
- $150M System Failing To Track Royalty Payments
- Senate Hears Stories Of Sexual Assault
- Tribes Most Vulnerable To Climate Shift
- Cherokee Nation Definition Of Tribe Challenged
- Blackfeet Border Guards
- NA Legislators Hear Sobering School Statistics
- Indigenous Organize To Halt Mining In Americas
- Peru's Indigenous Arise In Defense Of Earth
- Proposed Deal Reached For Michigan Tribes
- Washington Tribes, State To Meet Over Rights
- Council Donates $200,000 To Code Talkers Monument
- It's Time For Indians To Look To Better Future
- American Indian College Fund Granted $500,000
- NA Natural Foods Set To Launch Tanka Bars
- Washo Elders Help Compile Online Dictionary
- Longfeather: Working To Understand One Another
- Yellow Bird: Learning Culture Takes Time, Devotion
- Garcia: It's Time For Action
- Harjo: Reject Genocide-Denier's Propaganda
- Graham: Americas National Terrorist Holiday
- Yellow Bird: Don't Let Diabetes Get Best Of You
- Jodi Rave: Auction Reveals Blackfeet Spirit
- Opposition To Salmon Farming In British Columbia
- Kahnawake Mohawks Walk CPRTracks
- 6 Nations Defenders Charged With "Mis'chief"
- 6 Nations Spokespersons "Suckered" By Politicians
- First Nation 'Digs In Heels' At Blockade
- Kahnawake Band Council Attacks "Council Of Elders"
- Appeal Court Reserves Decision In Stonechild Case
- Tribes To Pilot Indian Country Amber Alert
- Expert: Tribal Courts Should Beware
- S.D. Supreme Court: Tribe Has No Jurisdiction
- What Happened To The Wampanoag Museum Money?
- Investigators Raid Cairo, Ga. Insurance Agency
- Native Group Sues Ramras Over Request For Probe
- Native Justice -- Muscogee Nation Helps Inmates Re-Enter Society
- Rustywire: Never Known Anything Like This
- Lee Goins Poem: Spirit Talker
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"Wholesale massacre occurred and I have never
heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than that at Wounded Knee.
About two hundred women and children were killed and wounded; women with
little children on their backs, and small children powder burned by the
men who killed them being so near as to burn the flesh and clothing with
the powder of their guns, and nursing babes with five bullet holes
through them." --- General Nelson A. Miles, division chief officer,
during the Wounded Knee Massacre
"This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by
the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a
price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has
come from robbery - from the stealing of our land." --- Chief Sinte
Gleska (Spotted Tail), Little Thunder Chief of the Brules
"We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way
by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each
other." Chief Motavato (Black Kettle), Cheyenne
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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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