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Manataka American Indian
Council Volume XIV Issue 11
November 2010
SMOKE SIGNAL NEWS
Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
November 2010
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"Our children are not taught false stories about the Pilgrims. Instead, we teach them
and lead them in being thankful each and every day for all Creator's Blessings."
-- Lee Standing Bear Moore
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"People and nations who
understand the Natural Law are self-governing, following the principles of
love and respect that insure freedom and peace."
--Traditional Circle of
Elders, Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area
The Natural Laws work
hand-in-hand with the circle. Each part of a circle will look to the center
and will see something different. For example, if you put an irregular
shaped object in the center of a circle and you have people standing in a
circle around the object, each one will describe it differently. Everyone in
the circle will be right. Only by honoring and respecting everyone's input,
can the truth about the object be revealed. We need to learn to honor
differences.
My Creator, let me honor
all differences
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FEATURE STORY
THE
REAL
STORY OF
THANKSGIVING
by Susan Bates
Most of us associate the holiday with
happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that
did happen - once.
But as word spread in England about the
paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called
Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around
the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by
other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young
Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had
not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they
fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars
ever fought.
In 1637 near present day Groton,
Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe
had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our
Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians
were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to
come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death
while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the
longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because
700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.
Cheered by their "victory", the brave
colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village.
Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest
were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly
left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps
to encourage as many deaths as possible. Read
More>>> The beautiful
artwork of J.D. Challenger captures the bonds of strength
and dignity linking Native Americans to their history.
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THANKSGIVING - A Day of Mourning
By Roy Cook, Editor, American Indian
Source
Most school children are
taught that Native Americans helped the Pilgrims and were invited to the
first Thanksgiving feast. Young children's conceptions of Native
Americans often develop out of media portrayals and classroom role
playing of the events of the First Thanksgiving. The conception of
Native Americans gained from such early exposure is both inaccurate and
potentially damaging to others. Therefore, most children
do not know the following facts, which explain why many American Indians
today call Thanksgiving a "Day of Mourning". One of a series of
feasts reaching back into the group memory has been seized upon by the
current modern society. The Wampanoag feast, called Nikkomosach-miawene,
or Grand Sachem's Council Feast. It was because of this feast in 1621
that the Wampanoags had amassed the food to help the Pilgrims thereby
creating a new tradition European tradition known today as "Thanksgiving
Day. This Wampanog feast is
marked by traditional food and games, telling of stories and legends,
sacred ceremonies and councils on the affairs of the nation. Massasoit
came with 90 Wampanog men and brought five deer, fish, all the food and
Wampanog cooks.
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Thanksgiving Myths By
Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
Give Thanks
and Acknowledge the Truth "The Europeans were able
to conquer America not because of their military genius, or their
religious motivation, or their ambition, or their greed. They conquered
it by waging unpremeditated biological warfare." -- Howard Simpson "Considering that
virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an
ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural
perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the
American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order
to justify its history?" -- Michael Dorris "European explorers and
invaders discovered an inhabited land. Had it been pristine wilderness
then, it would possibly be so still, for neither the technology nor the
social organization of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries had the
capacity to maintain, of its own resources, outpost colonies thousands
of miles from home." -- Francis Jennings What
Thanksgiving story are you telling your children or talking about with
your guests during this holiday? Most Americans speak of remembering the
Pilgrims who, in 1620, chose the land around Plymouth Harbor,
Massachusetts for their settlement. You might remember from your
elementary school days that since they arrived in the winter, they were
unprepared for the harsh climate. Fortunately, they were
aided by some friendly Indians who gave them food and showed them how to
grow corn. When the warm weather came, the colonists planted crops,
fished, hunted and became much better prepared for next winter. And when
they harvested their first crop, they invited their Indian friends to
celebrate with them what was to become the first Thanksgiving. This story is taught today
in thousands of classrooms across the nation, and around the world, and
is ingrained in most peoples consciousness. Just yesterday, I heard
some elementary school teachers telling the story on National Pubic
Radio. Unfortunately, the entire story, from start to finish, is a
complete lie. Read More>>>
The Center for Biological
Diversity
Thousands Rise Up for Mountains at "Appalachia Rising"
114 people were arrested
during the peaceful Appalachia Rising protest, including
NASA climate scientist James Hansen. Mickey McCoy, an
arrested Appalachian resident and past Inez, Kentucky mayor,
stated: "I have talked, begged, debated, written letters to
officials, published op-ed pieces in newspapers and lobbied
on the state and federal level to end mountaintop removal. .
. . My home and people are paying the real price for
mountaintop removal. They are dying."
Despite Appalachia's
suffering, the Environmental Protection Agency recently went
back on plans to announce whether it would veto a permit for
the planned Spruce Mine in West Virginia, which would bury
seven miles of streams and annihilate 2,300 acres of
hardwood forest. In May 2010, the Center urged the EPA to
veto the permit and stop what would become the largest
mountaintop removal mine in history, and we'll keep working
to save Appalachia's mountains
Get more on the protest from
CNN and learn about the Center's campaign to
end mountaintop removal.
The 10,000 acres in question
provide crucial habitat for rare species, including desert
tortoises, bighorn sheep, and many birds and plants. The
Center and allies had challenged the land exchange in 2001
to protect these species, and in 2009 we won. Last week's
ruling upholds a previous 9th Circuit decision and leaves
Asarco and the BLM few legal options for seeking the land
exchange -- likely ending a decade of hard-fought
litigation.
Get more in a radio story from
Arizona Public Media.
The Center for Biological
Diversity has been saving gray wolves for two decades and
we're not stopping now--our expert scientists and lawyers
are already weighing into these new fights. There are still
nowhere near enough wolves in Idaho or Montana to allow for
the animals' long-term survival, especially considering
they're already routinely shot by wildlife agents and
ranchers. In fact, wolves occupy only 5 percent of their
historic range in the lower 48 states. So instead of
allowing more killings and loosening protections, the feds
should develop a nationwide gray wolf recovery plan to help
wolves repopulate their former range on the West Coast and
in New England, Colorado and the Great Plains. The Center
petitioned for just that recovery plan earlier this year.
Read more in the
Missoulian.
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The
story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to
England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They
left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had
escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they
found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had
survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them
to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the
Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year,
the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.
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understand an American Indian perspective on Thanksgiving, you need
some information and some new viewpoints.
Traditional hospitality and generosity have and continue to be constant
Tribal virtues to be practiced at all times.
Before the Pilgrims arrived Plymouth had been the site of a Pawtuxet
village which was wiped out by a plague (introduced by English explorers
looking to grab a piece of the New World land) five years before the
Pilgrims landed These Native peoples had met Europeans before the
Pilgrims arrived. One such European was Captain Thomas Hunt, who started
trading with the Native people in 1614. He captured 20 Pawtuxcts and
seven Naugassets, selling them as slaves in Spain.
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This
week thousands of activists, including Center for Biological
Diversity attorney Bethany Cotton, gathered on the steps of
the nation's capitol for Appalachia Rising, an event to urge
the government to ban mountaintop-removal coal mining.
Mountaintop removal mining literally blows up mountains to
get at coal and dumps toxic debris directly into streams,
poisoning endangered species and human communities --
with a current toll of more than 500 decimated mountains and
2,000 miles of ruined streams.
Strengthening
an earlier court victory for the Center for Biological
Diversity and allies, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last
Thursday upheld a decision halting a land exchange that
would have allowed mining on thousands of pristine Arizona
acres. The Bureau of Land Management had planned to swap
more than 10,000 acres of public land east of Phoenix --
including the biodiversity-rich White Canyon Resource
Conservation Area -- for about 7,300 acres of land owned by
mining corporation Asarco LLC. The BLM's environmental
analysis assumed that mining impacts would've been the same
whether or not the exchange happened -- an arrogant
assumption that ignores how federal laws could help protect
natural resources on public lands if those lands weren't
traded away.
Documents
just released Monday confirm that the state of Montana is
seeking approval to kill 186 gray wolves and Idaho is asking
to kill about 50 -- despite the fact that both states' gray
wolves remain protected under the federal Endangered Species
Act. Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter -- who once boasted he'd
be the first in line to hunt a wolf, and is now twice
nominated for the Center's Rubber Dodo Award -- also wants
to subject wolves in his state to a public hunt. Meanwhile,
four bills have been introduced in Congress to strip away
Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the
northern Rocky Mountains and beyond. It's all part of a
reaction to a federal judge's decision in early August that
restored much-needed protections for wolves in Montana,
Idaho and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah. (In response
to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and
allies, the judge chastised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service for earlier lifting protections based on state
boundaries, not sound science.)
Redrock Wilderness
Judge
Stops Big Oil's Trucking Plan in the Rockies
A
district judge in Idaho has suspended the special permits issued to
ConocoPhillips to truck massive loads of refinery equipment along the
Clearwater and Lochsa Rivers in the Rocky Mountains -- a federally
protected river corridor. ConocoPhillips' plan would have caused
irreparable damage to a pristine river environment and threatened public
safety and tourism. In his decision, the judge cited his concerns
regarding the Idaho Transportation Department's flawed review of the
permit application. Back in May, we asked BioGems Defenders to oppose a
similar proposal by Exxon's Imperial Oil for trucking oversized
industrial shipments through historic Lolo Pass, and more than 25,000 of
you responded by sending letters to the Montana Department of
Transportation. We'll keep you updated on the status of that battle.
D.C. Population Strategy Meeting
The
fourth annual Population Strategy Working Group Meeting, held in
Washington, D.C. 75 activists, academics, funders and governmental
representatives participated in a wide-ranging discussion of the
dynamics of unsustainable human population growth and strategies for
addressing the challenge. Participants included numerous nonprofit
organizations in the United States; an elected representative of the
Australia parliament; leaders of population groups in Canada and the
United Kingdom; and Paul Ehrlich, a leading voice of the modern
population movement since the publication of his groundbreaking book
The Population Bomb more than 40 years ago.
Check out the newly revamped overpopulation website and learn more about Endangered Species Condoms.
GRANDFATHER SEVEN HAWK EYES SPEAKS
Wolves and Coyotes
Author Unknown
One day as a man was walking alone he met a coyote.
Coyote spoke to the man and said, "How would you like to smoke my pipe?"
The man thanked the coyote and said "Sure!"
When the man was finished, the coyote said to him,
"You have smoked my pipe so now you are my friend and I will not harm you, but
will take you to meet my people. I want my people to know that you have smoked
my pipe. They will be glad to see you and will give you great powers."
They walked on a way and after a while they met many coyotes and wolves.
When the coyotes and the wolves saw the coyote with the man one wolf called to
the other wolves and said, "Everyone be seated. Let us hear what these people
who are coming have to say."
When they were seated the coyote stood up and said, "This man is my brother. He smoked my pipe. He came with me to pay you a visit. Let us take pity on him and make him a wonderful man." Read More>>>
Shinnecocks
Become 565th Recognized Tribe
(Connecticut) The Shinnecock Indian Nation received word October 1
from its tribal attorneys that it is now officially the 565th Native
American tribe to earn recognition from the U.S. government, according to
Shinnecock Tribal Trustee Lance Gumbs. The Interior Board of Indian Appeals,
or IBIA, on Friday dismissed two objections to granting the Shinnecocks
federal recognition, removing the last remaining obstacles in what became a
process for the tribe that covered more than 32 years. The application was
stalled over two objections, one filed by a gaming group, The Connecticut
Coalition for Gaming Jobs, and the other filed by members of the Montaukett
Tribe, a splinter group of the Montauk Indian Nation, who wanted to be
included in the Shinnecock application.
Theres been a big success for Native American families of disabled veterans. Under the new law, Native American families that include a disabled veteran will not have to count the veterans disability benefits when applying for low-income housing. The new law will change the definition of income in the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, an adjustment that will benefit many Native American veterans and their families. More than 20% of the population in Indian Country has served in the military, and many who returned home injured found that their disability benefits disqualified them and their families for housing assistance, even though the disability benefits are often needed for special expenses related to the disability such as transportation to medical and rehabilitation facilities. The Navajo Housing Authority raised this issue with Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), who sponsored the legislation. Both the House and Senate have passed the bill, and it now awaits the Presidents signature.
Cobell Settlement: Unpaid for Another Year?
After 14 years of litigation, Eloise Cobell and her attorneys
reached a settlement with the U.S. government attorneys in a law suit
alleging that the U.S. failed in its duty as trustee to hold certain oil
wells and other properties for the benefit of Native American individuals
and tribes. Since the government was unable to come up with clear records
of how it carried out its trust responsibility, courts had difficulty
establishing the amount of unpaid income to Native people from these
properties since 1920. Nevertheless, this year, the parties reached an
agreement for a settlement equal to $3.4 billion, a small fraction of the
amount that Eloise Cobell originally sought.
The parties turned to Congress to pay the settlement. The Senate leadership
allowed the proposed settlement of a duty owed for nearly 100 years to
be defined as a new program, which, under Senate rules, must identify a
funding source to offset its cost. Despite several attempts, the Senate has
been unable to gather the necessary support to approve the funding for this
lawsuit. One of the last hopes was for an amendment to the continuing
resolution a large temporary measure that will fund the government until
December. But the Senate did not include the Cobell funding on that
measure, and adjourned without finding a way to pay these dues.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),
passed by Congress in 1990, requires museums and federal agencies to
inventory Native American human remains in their possession, along with
certain cultural items, including funerary objects, sacred objects, and
objects of cultural patrimony. The museums and agencies are required to
return these items to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian
tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
This year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed the impact of
the law and issued a report entitled, Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act: After Almost 20 Years, Key Federal Agencies Still Have
Not Fully Complied with the Act. The report points to challenges that
several federal agencies have encountered in efforts to comply, including
lack of funding and staffing. The National Park Service of the Department of
the Interior one of the key agencies named in the report is hosting a
conference on compliance with NAGPRA on November 15 and 16th in Washington
D.C. [yeah more yammer, gab, yammer, gab.]
Tribal Web Sites (Federally recognized tribes only; Alphabetical by State)
Book Watch
Native American Night Before Christmas
Author: Gary Robinson
An innovative re-telling of the classic Christmas tale, this full-color picture book takes a whimsical look at what Christmas Eve might be like for an American Indian family when Old Red Shirt (the Indian Santa Claus) comes a-calling with his team of flying white buffalo to deliver fry bread commodities and other goodies. This delightful and very amusing rewrite of the old A Night Before Christmas is sure to be a hit with Native Americans and children everywhere as well as people of all ages interested in Native customs and art. With full-page colorful, humorous paintings by renowned Cherokee artist Jesse T. Hummingbird. About the author: Gary Robinson is a multi-faceted writer and filmmaker of Choctaw and Cherokee Indian descent with more than 20 years experience in numerous aspects of documentary and educational television production, writing, and media project management. Working mainly for or about American Indian tribes, organizations and businesses, he has written, produced, directed, shot and edited more than 100 video/ television programs (some of which have won awards) shown by diverse entities including the BIA, the Chumash Tribe, PBS and Turner Broadcasting. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in TV/Film Production from the University of Texas. About the illustrator: Jesse T. Hummingbird, a member of the Cherokee Nation, was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the youngest of seven children. After studying art at various colleges in Tennessee and elsewhere, he established himself as a successful printer, graphic artist and commercial illustrator before becoming a full-time artist in 1983. Featuring both Cherokee and other Native American themes, his drawings, acrylic paintings and prints have won numerous prizes. His works have been featured on posters for major Indian arts and crafts shows, have illustrated several childrens books, and have been included in major collections around the world.
ISBN: 9781574160932 Price: $19.95
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln
A traveler came into a town beset by famine. The inhabitants tried to discourage the traveler from staying, fearing he wanted them to give him food. They told him in no uncertain terms that there's no food anywhere to be found. The traveler explained that he didn't need any food and that, in fact, he was planning to make a soup to share with all of them.
The villagers watch suspiciously as he builds a fire and fills a cauldron with water. With great ceremony, he pulled a stone from a bag, dropping the stone into the pot of water. He sniffed the brew extravagantly and exclaimed how delicious stone soup was. As the villagers begin to show interest, he mentioned how much better the soup would be with just a little cabbage in it. A villager brought out a cabbage to share. This process repeated itself until the soup had cabbage, carrots, onions, and beets-indeed, a substantial soup that fed everyone in the village.
The wise traveler fed the whole village and himself by leading the villagers to come together with a community effort.
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, you will find a future, and your hope will not be cut off. - Proverbs 24:13-14
Submitted by Manataka Elder Dr. Fred Wilcoxson, FL, PhD, PC, BCCC
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As chairman of the June 2011 Manataka Powwow at Hot Springs
National Park, Arkansas, Grandfather Hawk Hoffman will share many
years of powwow experience as you provide needed assistance in
organizing, promoting, supervising details and working at the event.
Scheduled for June 10 - 12, 2011, the Manataka Powwow will have a
huge arena at Bald Mountain Park and Campgrounds to host dancers, drummers, special
entertainment, and vendors. Send us your contact information
and what you would like to do to help.
PowwowCommittee@manataka.org
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CALLING ALL MANATAKA
by Grandmother Linda Two Hawk Feathers James
People of
Manataka! You are the ones who answered the call of the Place of Peace. It
is well and good to seek this place, and it is good to be in this place, but
we who have experienced the peaceful feeling that Manataka can give, cannot
just stay in that place of peace. We must take an example from the rainbow
woman who reaches out from the spirit world to us. That is how we begin to
seek. Yet, there are so many people who may not be sensitive to her
invitation because the sounds, sights, and smells of the world block out the
spirit.
Manataka
ambassadors and friends travel to many places around the continent and around
the globe and meet with elders and spiritual leaders of many nations. The
gift of tobacco is a sign of reverence and respect and is a long held tradition
of many peoples. Often, prayer ties are strung together and taken to
sacred sites and or places that require healing (such the Gulf of Mexico).
Join
the Manataka Powwow Committee Now!
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