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WOTANGING IKCHE- NATIVE AMERICAN NEWS
VOLUME 16, ISSUE 002
Distributed by Gary Night Owl

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

O'siyo Brothers and Sisters!

These are interesting and confusing times.

Lost tribes and lost languages are being resurrected, while other tribes and languages are slipping toward oblivion. What are you doing to keep your language and culture alive? Are you helping or shunning your elders, those precious wisdom keepers?

The Osage just won a court case that they hope will ensure and broaden their sovereignty. The Republic of Lakotah has drawn interest and support throughout the world for the public withdrawal from treaties with the United States - treaties that were repeatedly broken by the United States.

Those same issues with broken treaties is also what is behind the standoff at New Caledonia in Canada.

Yet, as you read this, the Bush Administration is conspiring to deep-six one of the longest enduring treaties - The Jay Treaty. The Bushies and their Troy counterparts in Canada claim this long recognized treaty that grants Mohawk, Tulalip and others unrestricted crossing of the US/Canada border also enables foreign agents similar access. No one has told us how these agents, bent on destruction, are going to obtain Tribal Enrollment Cards, which any real wannabee can tell you do not fall off trees.

In these new and confusing times remember your prophesies and do your best to stand strong in support of your people, your culture, your tribe, your elders and all Tribal and First Nations who face these same struggles.

We must stand together.

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 16, ISSUE 002
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Editorial Section: . Standing Strong In Confusing Times
- Osages Court Victory Step Toward More Sovereignty
- Judge Denies Remand For Tribal Trust Lawsuits
- Silencing Of Traditional Indigenous People
- Uncensoring The Dying Fields
- Inside The Checkpoints: The 52st State
- Tulalips Object To Law Requiring Passport
- Lakota Nation, Good Beginning For 2008
- Notice To Real Estate Buyers In Lakotah Republic
- US Treaties Withdrawl Has Little Leader Support
- Lakota Delegation:Means 'Hijacked' Organization
- A Forgotten People Reclaim Their Culture
- Landless Tribe Waits Federal Recognition
- Classes Focus On Violence Against Indian Women
- Cooper: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act
- Mountain: Good Advice From Elders
- Newcomb: Book: 'Pagans In The Promised Land'
- Wheeler: Indigenizing Globalization
- Yellow Bird: All Iowa Needed Was A Goblet Of Fire
- Dunbar-Ortiz: Roots Of Resistance
- Near North To Focus On Aboriginal Students
- RCMP Investigate Fatal Fire At Metis Settlement
- Masset Feast Celebrates Land Use Plan Signing
- Quebec City To Celebrate Carnage, Genocide, Death
- Recognize US Govt Responsibility For Acteal
- Men In The Gathering Of Indigenous Women
- On A Remote Path To Cures
- Activist's Grandson Charged With Her Murder
- Jesuits Settle Indian Sex Abuse Suit
- Native Justice -- Undermining The Jurisdictional System
- Rustywire: Coming Home From Boarding School
- Lee Goins Poem: Wish Upon A Star
 
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"No one should die for want of a drink of water." -- Mike Wilson, Tohono O'odham

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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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