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O'siyo Brothers and Sister!
The editorial comment will be very brief. The
lead article in this issue is an announcement of an
Annual Coat Drive for Kids.
For several years this newsletter has featured calls for winter and
holiday assistance in this section, but I chose not to do so this year.
The participation, both from those requesting assistance and those who
were responding, has declined to a point where it seemed the requests
were not providing the hoped for benefit.
Many of you also receive the companion obituary announcements to
Wotanging Ikche, Native Crossings.
It occurred to my half-side, The Lovely Janet, no news item could be
more important than the coat drive for kids, because as she pointed out,
"Kids without winter coats might very easily become items in 'Native
Crossings'".
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
"COATS FOR
KIDS"
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=9176
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic Announces Annual Coats for Kids Drive
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
December 5, 2007
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic will host its annual Kids, Coats and
Community coat drive Monday December 17, 2007. The event is held every
year to give Clinic children a new coat for the winter. Kids, Coats and
Community will be held at the Clinic's WIC office located at 4901 W.
Reno, Suite 750 (east of the Clinic) from 4:00pm until 6:00pm. This year
60 coats will be given away along with a toy donated by Glorieta Baptist
Church, and a healthy snack. Santa and his elves are scheduled to arrive
just after 5:00pm for a reading of Clement Clarke Moore's, "Twas the
Night before Christmas."
Clinic children chosen to receive coats are identified by Clinic staff
based on need. OKCIC Administrative Clerk, Jackie Dixon says, "The coat
drive is one of my favorite events of the year because it satisfies a
need, and you can see the smiles on the faces of the children when they
receive their new coats."
Monetary donations, new coats and toys are still being accepted. In
order to offset the cost of coats, the Clinic staff is selling memory
ornaments which will be displayed in the Clinic lobby through the
holiday season.
The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic delivers a wide range of services,
including medical, prenatal, dental, pharmacy, optometry, as well as
family, behavioral and substance abuse counseling and treatment. OKCIC
provides x-ray, ultrasound, lab and mammography services. Clinic
patients make use of diabetes and cardiovascular treatment and services,
in addition to health and nutrition education and preventative care
services.
Because the OKCIC serves approximately 16,000 patients from more than
220 federally recognized tribes, its schedule reflects a fulltime
commitment to healthcare by providing urgent care and other specialty
clinics.
Native American Times. Copyright c. 2005 All Rights Reserved.
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I apologize for not getting this up sooner. However, I am sure donations
given at anytime will help! It may be past Christmas, but winter is
still with us.~ Stone Woman
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CONTENTS LIST OF ARTICLES IN
VOLUME 15, ISSUE 050
FOR ARTICLES GOT TO
WOTANGING IKCHE-Native American News
- Indian Clinic Annual Coats For Kids Drive
- Judge Told Trust Plans Fail Legal Standards
- Interior Again Shifts Duty To Account For Trust
- BIA Asks Tribes To Share Ideas For Change
- Peaks Defense Readies For Pasadena Court
- Homeland Security To Seize Lipan Apache Lands
- Invasion Of Mud Wrecks Home On Reservation
- Native American Smokeout Event Creates Awareness
- Yurok Tribe Members Divide $92 Million Settlement
- Part 1: The Culture Of Gallup
- Hopi: No Seperating Church, State
- How Kikmongwi Became First Mesa Traditional Leader
- Yucca Forum Gets Loud, Rude, Does Little
- Richardson Wants Uranium Review Process Abandoned
- Official Seeks End To Bison Range Conflict
- Indian Veterans Learn Trades To Pass Along
- Rez Schools Defy Statewide Enrollment Decline
- Yellow Bird: Insensitivity, Overreaction In Sudan
- Giago: Three Courageous Women Newspaper Publishers
- Noreen: Erosion Of Spiritual Life Takes A Toll
- Mountain: Drinking Is Not The Dene Way
- Jodi Rave: Man Behind Air Native Embraces Culture
- Dorgan: Indian Health Care National Embarrassment
- C-Of-A: Mexicans, War And The War On Christmas
- Jodi Rave: First Class To Enter Montana Indian Hof
- Harjo: Philadelphia Indian Story
- Jodi Rave: MSU Makes Natives Priority
- Indigenous Peoples Speak Out On Racism, Oppression
- Mexico Drug Gangs Muscle Border Tribe Out Of Homes
- Barbed Wire: Another Layer Of Border Genocide
- Nov 2007 Chiapas/Zapatista News Summary
- Native Negotiators Want Land, Not Just Money
- Police Question Teen About Shirt
- Chas. Mix County, ACLU Settle Indian Voting Case
- Canadian Supreme Court Won't Hear Graham Appeal
- Native Justice-- Jury's Talk Gets Navajo New Trial
- Rustywire: Little Brown Eyes
- Del "Abe" Jones Poem: Pearl Harbor +
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"The government's proposal is nothing more than
a cruel hoax: a plan that would give most Indian trust beneficiaries
little of the
information that a true accounting would provide." -- Elousie Cobell,
Blackfeet, on the Government's recent court maneuvers in the Indian
Trust Litigation Case.
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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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