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SMOKE SIGNAL NEWS Manataka - Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
July Issue Page 1 of 3 Pages
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Manataka American Indian Council Volume XIII Issue 07 JULY 2009
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SMOKE SIGNAL NEWS Manataka - Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
July Issue Page 1 of 3 Pages
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| Elders Meditation: | Don Talayesva, Hopi | |
| Upcoming Events: | ||
| Feature Story 1: | The Spirit of Peace | |
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Feature Story 2: |
The Shores Within - Chapter 3 | |
| Ecological Notes: | Union of Concern Scientists | |
| Grandfather King Coke Speaks: | Promises, Promises: Indian Health Care's Victims | |
| Grandfather Seven Hawk Eyes Speaks: | Parental Abuse, When Will It End? | |
| Mother Earth Watch: | Buying Organic is Well Worth the Cost... | |
| Tribal News: | A | Virginia Tribes; Canadian War Crimes and more |
| Education: | ||
| Inspiration Thoughts: | A Spiritual Conspiracy | |
| Website Updates: | 20 New Articles in JUNE 2009 | |
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Contents of Page 2 |
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| Legends of Old: | Father Frog | |
| Feature Story 3: | We Are All Related | |
| Feature Story 4: | About the Lakota Sacred Red Stone C’anunpa | |
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Letters to the Editor: |
Real ID, Indian Prez, Losing Weight and More... | |
| Organic Consumers: | Doctors Call for Ban on Genetically Modified Foods | |
| Elder's Meditations: | Traditional Circle of Elders. Onodaga | |
| Plant Medicine: | Surviving Sinusitis - Sinus Infections | |
| Fluoride: | Fluoride May Contribute to Early Puberty | |
| Animal Rights and Wrongs: | A | Grizzly Bears and Gray Wolves |
| Endangered Sacred Sites: | New Mexico’s Endangered Sacred Site | |
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Contents of Page 3 |
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| History: | History of the Great Zuni People | |
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Grandmother L. Cota Nupah Makah: Grandmother Magdala Rameriz: Grandmother Selma: |
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Feature Story 5:: Feature Story 6: |
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| Elder's Meditations: | Circle of Elders, Northern Cheyenne | |
| Women's Circle: | Mourning Dove (Okanogan) | |
| Food & Nutrition: | Going Vegetarian or Vegan? | |
| Book Reviews: |
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| Poetry Circle: |
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| Healing Prayer Basket: | Crossing Over, Sickness, and Memorials | |
| Manataka Business: | Special Needs; Meeting Postponed; Dues | |
"Do not be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts." - Don Talayesva, Hopi
Human beings function
from choice. We can choose to stuff things, or we can choose to let go of
things. If we choose to stuff things, then
we will feel a heaviness, or sorrow, self pity or fear. Sometimes we feel the
need to cry. Sometimes we are taught it is not okay to cry. The Creator designed
the human being to cry. Crying is a release. This release allows us to let go of
thoughts that are not helping us so we can open to new thoughts that will help.
Crying is natural for women and men.
Grandfather,
If I need to cry,
let me realize it is a natural process
and help me to let go.
WANNA BECOME A MEMBER OF MANATAKA?
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Gatherings, Meetings, Conventions, Seminars
The Spirit of Peace
by Norman Cordova
As we walk along our path in life we encounter many spirits. These spirits are not new but ancient. They have existed through time and will continue to exist long after my walk in the world has come full circle.
Life
is an encounter with spirits. We may not choose which ones we meet, but
ultimately we are able to choose which spirits we keep company with. Many
spirits we can encounter as friends, yet there are others which may burden us
and weigh us down taking life from us. In my own life, walking the red road has
helped me to understand the difference between the two. The ceremony of the
Inipi has also helped to strengthen my own spirit and ultimately my own ability
to choose which spirits I keep company with.
In all cultures the spirits we encounter have names. For example, at times we may encounter the spirit of joy, the spirit of disillusionment, the spirit of hope or the spirit of confusion. Perhaps these spirits are carried to us through another; such as an inspiring and good person or perhaps a manipulative and mean one. For me, when times are difficult or confusing, I look for the Spirit of Peace to guide and lead me. What I have found is that the Spirit of Peace is a good guide and a good help.
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The Shores Within By Boe Glasschild & Laughing Dog Red Feather
Free Online Lessons on the Medicine Way Eight lessons plus a glossary, bibliographic notes and more.
The Medicine Way has been exclusively an oral tradition for centuries. Now, Choctaw Spiritual Elder Boe Many Knives Glasschild, Bvshpo Lawa, puts these teachings in writing for all to read and understand. This is the second installment of ten monthly installments of the book entitled, "The Shores Within" covering the entire book from April to December 2009. Each chapter contains links to a glossary of definitions to various Medicine Way terminology.
Preface and Forethought - April 2009 Introduction and Chapter 1 - May 2009 Shores Within - Chapter 2 - June 2009 Shores Within - Chapter 3 - July 2009
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No offense intended for any individuals or tribes.
Two Poncas stole a hog, and put it on the front car seat between them.
Suddenly they hit a road block. Thinking fast, they disguised the hog by putting
sunglasses on it, and by tying a lady's scarf around its head. The trick worked,
and the deputy let them go.
"Don't that break your heart?" the deputy asked the sheriff as they drove away. "Them two Ponca Indian boys .. out with that beautiful white woman".
Robert Gray Hawk Coke
PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian Health Care's Victims
by Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Writer
An
occasional look at government promises and how well they are kept.
CROW AGENCY, Mont. (AP) - Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.
When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service clinic in this wind-swept and remote corner of Montana, they told her the 5-year-old was depressed.
Ta'Shon's pain rapidly worsened and she visited the clinic about 10 more times over several months before her lung collapsed and she was airlifted to a children's hospital in Denver. There she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, confirming the suspicions of family members.
A few weeks later, a charity sent the whole family to Disney World so Ta'Shon could see Cinderella's Castle, her biggest dream. She never got to see the castle, though. She died in her hotel bed soon after the family arrived in Florida.
"Maybe it would have been treatable," says her great-aunt, Ada White, as she stoically recounts the last few months of Ta'Shon's short life. Stephanie Little Light cries as she recalls how she once forced her daughter to walk when she was in pain because the doctors told her it was all in the little girl's head.
Ta'Shon's story is not unique in the Indian Health Service system, which serves almost 2 million American Indians in 35 states.
GRANDFATHER
SEVEN HAWK EYES SPEAKS
Parental Abuse, When Will It End?
I
made it a habit for the past ten years to visit several nursing homes in the
central Illinois area. Most of the folks that reside in these homes are not able
to do the simplest things for themselves. One time while I was in a room talking
to an old man in his nineties two of his children asked me to leave the room and
never to come back. They said that I was encouraging the old man to do things on
his own and not to depend on the children. As I left the room one of the
children scolded the old man. I stayed just out of sight while the children
(both in their 60’s)
verbally abused the old man. I was very sad because I could do nothing. I
spoke to one of the caregivers about the old man and she told me that the
children abuse the man on a regular basis.
After his children left I went to the room and noticed that he had been crying and appeared to have a black eye. After talking to him for a while he told me that his son had smacked him. I told the employees of the home what had happened and I was told that this sort of thing happens every day and that they could do nothing about it. I then called the police department and an investigator came to the home and took a report of the abuse...
Buying Organic is Well Worth the Cost...
Even When Times are Tough
(NaturalNews) Organic food is now the fastest
growing segment of U.S. agriculture. In 2007, the value of retail sales from
organic food was estimated at more than $20 billion. According to the Food
Marketing Institute, more than half of Americans now buy some organic food
product at least once a month. The industry is expected to grow at a rate of
18 percent per year until 2010, making organic food sales one of the fastest
growing sectors in the generally sagging U.S. economy. Cutting organic food
from their budgets is just not an option for many people who are struggling
to make ends meet.
What does it mean to be organic?
According to the National Organic Standards Board:
"Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that
promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological
activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management
practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony.
"The
word organic is a labeling term that denotes products produced under the
authority of the Organic Foods Production Act. The principal guidelines for
organic production are to use materials and practices that enhance the
ecological balance of natural systems and that integrate the parts of the
farming system into an ecological whole.
"Organic agriculture practices cannot ensure that products are completely
free of residues; however, methods are used to minimize pollution from air,
soil and water.
"Organic food handlers, processors and retailers adhere to standards that
maintain the integrity of organic agricultural products. The primary goal of
organic agriculture is to optimize the health and productivity of
interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people."
This definition gently shades the meaning most people associate with the
term, such as the use of non-chemical fertilizers and pesticides as the food
is being grown. Canada`s recently instituted organic regulations
specifically prohibit synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and
genetically-modified organisms (GMO).
(Continued)
Organic farming offers a difference
The term "natural" has no real meaning
Why does organic food cost so much?
House Approves Virginia Tribes' Federal Recognition Bill
WASHINGTON - With the House of Representatives' approval of the Thomasina
E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2009, some
members of six Virginia Indian tribes say they're hoping their federal
recognition bill will become law this year.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1385 Virginia's
tribes have waited 400 years to receive their federal recognition. We are one
step closer to closing a sad chapter in our nation's history, one that saw the
exploitation and denigration of Virginia's Indians.
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/47056397.html
Mohawk Native News -
Canada continues to prepare and initiate aggression against the
Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne in violation of international treaties,
agreements and assurances. Canada is carrying out ill treatment of
civilian residents on the illegally occupied territory of the
Haudenosaunee. No matter where the Canada-US border is relocated, it
is still on Onwehonwe land. The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority is
making money out of illegally leasing out our land for the border
facility. According to the Jay Treaty 1794 between the U.S. and
Britain, the border is meant for the colonists. Not us. Some suggest
it be relocated somewhere in Europe. If the colonists block the
bridges to our community every time they want to scare or control
us, is it time to build our own? Mohawks are being held hostage on
Cornwall Island by Canada and the U.S. until we agree to let the gun
toting border guards roam around the middle of Akwesasne. The
Minister of Public Safety won’t talk to us. Why? In the meantime
boats and barges are shuffling kids, food and other necessities to
us. Kahentinetha -
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com MNN Mohawk Nation News,
www..mohawknationnews.com
Go to MNN “BORDER” category for more stories;
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
New York City, NY -- A delegation from the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council (TSNTC) attended a two-week session at the United Nations. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was in session. The delegation included Spokesperson Charmaine White Face, Janice Larson from Lower Brule, Clifford White Eyes Sr. from Rosebud, and Garvard Good Plume, Pine Ridge. The Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council was established in 1893 by Chief He Dog specifically to uphold the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. Delegations from the TSNTC began their efforts in the United Nations in 1984 after exhausting all remedies in the United States. TSNTC delegations have attended most of the sessions of the Permanent Forum since the first session in 2001. This is the Eighth the Session. The UN Permanent Forum provides an opportunity for the Nation States, who are members of the United Nations, to hear issues directly from Indigenous Nations and peoples. It also provides an opportunity to meet with officials of UN agencies and offices, and to meet and network with representatives of other Indigenous nations and peoples. Charmaine White Face at 605-399-1868, or email: bhdefenders@msn.com
Horrifying Things Are Happening in Peru's Rainforests
In the past several days the Peruvian government murdered dozens of Indigenous protesters who tried to unite in peaceful protest against oil expansion in their forests. Peru's President, Alan Garcia, says that in order to meet its Free Trade Agreement responsibilities to the United States Peru must prioritize the demands of international resource exploitation even as they undermine the land rights of Peru's Indigenous peoples. And so far the US has been silent. You can change that. Act now and tell Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the US needs take a stand and formally demand that Peru end the violence now. In 2008, President Garcia created 99 laws designed to open up Peru's lands to multinational corporations for oil and gas exploration by executive order, bypassing Peru's Congress and any debate in Peru's democratic government. While the Peruvian Congress reviews whether these executive orders are constitutional, tens of thousands of Indigenous peoples have been peacefully marching and blockading to prevent the rainforests they depend on from being exploited. Then, several days ago, the violent crackdown began. In Bagua Grande, 1,400km north of Lima, several thousand Indigenous peoples were forcibly dispersed by tear gas and real bullets, killing dozens of Indigenous protesters. Just yesterday, the Congress announced a suspension of two of the 99 laws, but Indigenous leaders have signaled that their peaceful protests will continue until all the laws are completely revoked.
TEACHING ABOUT AMERICAN INDIANS
Teaching Resources for Educators
Here are resources if you've ever wanted classroom-teaching activities on
American Indians beyond the Thanksgiving holiday or the history of American
Indian Education or best teaching practices addressing American Indian learners.
Resources include books, magazines, articles, bibliographies, maps, etc.
Although often times there is overlap, these resources are organized in four
categories:
Teaching About American Indians
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for American Indian Learners
Researching American Indian Education
Other Resources
A SPIRITUAL CONSPIRACY
On the surface of the world right now there is war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time, something else is happening
underground.
An inner revolution is
taking place and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent revolution.
From the inside out. From
the ground up.
This is a Global operation.
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led other groups in a successful
effort urging the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
to resurrect a program for
tracking pesticide use on U.S.
food crops, which had been
halted by the Bush
administration. The pesticide
use surveys, conducted by the
USDA's National Agricultural
Statistics Service (NASS),
provide the only free, publicly
available data on the
agricultural chemicals applied
to crops. Government agencies,
environmental groups, academic
scientists, and others use the
data to evaluate the human
health and environmental risks
posed by pesticides and compare
the amount of pesticides applied
to genetically engineered (GE)
versus conventional crops, among
other purposes. As the first
step in restoring the program,
NASS will gather data on
pesticide applications to fruit
and nut crops this fall. If
Congress approves the full
funding specified in the
president's 2010 budget, the
agency will resume data
collection for vegetables, major
row crops, and pesticides
applied to crops after harvest.
