PAWNEE -- It was called a day of blessing at the Pawnee Nation.
Over 100 tribal members and their band chiefs gathered Saturday at the Pawnee danceground to honor Roger Welsch and his wife, Linda, for their gift of some 60 acres of pristine Nebraska farmland.
Welsch, a writer, is also a history buff who learned through his research that the Pawnees once inhabited the area where he lives near Dannebrog, Neb., particularly land around the Loup River.
The deed to the land was given to the 3,000-member tribe in a ceremony punctuated by the Welsches receiving honorary Pawnee tribal membership. The event started with a pipe ceremony followed by a feast, an honor dance and concluded with a cedar ceremony for the man who said he was moved to give the land back to the people who he felt had rightful ownership.
"It's something we had no choice in because it had to be done," Welsch said. "These people are not guests on our land, but rather we are guests on their land."
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Public will get to see native artifacts collection
GREAT FALLS - What is believed to be a priceless collection of American Indian artifacts awaits a final destination.
"I'm currently holding a letter from Black Elk in my hand, and that's an experience I never expected to have happen," said the Flathead Gallery's Don Baughman, who was brought in to appraise the estate of the late David Humphreys Miller.
In the letter, the legendary Sioux chief wrote Miller that he would sponsor a Sun Dance and pray for his safe return from service in Germany during World War II.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Baughman said. "This morning I've been asking myself how I can put a value on something that's essentially priceless."
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"I'm currently holding a letter from Black Elk in my hand, and that's an experience I never expected to have happen," said the Flathead Gallery's Don Baughman, who was brought in to appraise the estate of the late David Humphreys Miller.
In the letter, the legendary Sioux chief wrote Miller that he would sponsor a Sun Dance and pray for his safe return from service in Germany during World War II.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Baughman said. "This morning I've been asking myself how I can put a value on something that's essentially priceless."
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Seminoles to vote on tribal chairman today
Hollywood · Hundreds of Seminole Tribe members are expected to cast ballots on three Florida reservations today in an election that could be pivotal in shaping the financial future of a tribe that has become immensely wealthy through its operation of seven gaming casinos.
At stake is the chairmanship of the 3,200-member tribe, as well as all seven other positions on the Seminoles' governing council and board of directors.
The election comes a little more than two months after the tribe closed a $965 million deal to buy the Hard Rock International chain, a purchase that spotlighted the Seminoles' economic might and their ambitious expansion plans. The purchase is thought to be the largest single acquisition by an American Indian tribe.
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At stake is the chairmanship of the 3,200-member tribe, as well as all seven other positions on the Seminoles' governing council and board of directors.
The election comes a little more than two months after the tribe closed a $965 million deal to buy the Hard Rock International chain, a purchase that spotlighted the Seminoles' economic might and their ambitious expansion plans. The purchase is thought to be the largest single acquisition by an American Indian tribe.
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Quotes
"My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee nation, you were adopted into a great family." -
Black Fish, Shawnee, recalling 1778 adoption of Daniel Boone into the tribe
Black Fish, Shawnee, recalling 1778 adoption of Daniel Boone into the tribe
A call for spirits to sleep
UNIONTOWN, Ky. Uniontown, Ky., residents are preparing to mark one of the nation's most notorious cases of American Indian grave desecration.
American Indians from across the country are expected to converge on the small Union County community this Memorial Day weekend to purify themselves in sweat lodges, offer prayers and burn tobacco offerings in an ongoing effort to make peace with the spirits of their ancestors.
It will be 20 years this fall since those spirits were disturbed from their long sleep.
In 1987, 10 men from Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois paid the owner of a farm at the edge of town, near where the Ohio and Wabash rivers converge, $10,000 to dig for artifacts.
They dug in a burial ground for a Native American village archaeologists believe was established in the 1400s and inhabited until 1700 or later. Known since the mid-1800s when the Smithsonian Institution sponsored a limited dig there for artifacts still housed in the Washington, D.C., museum the site was on what was known locally as the Slack Farm.
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American Indians from across the country are expected to converge on the small Union County community this Memorial Day weekend to purify themselves in sweat lodges, offer prayers and burn tobacco offerings in an ongoing effort to make peace with the spirits of their ancestors.
It will be 20 years this fall since those spirits were disturbed from their long sleep.
In 1987, 10 men from Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois paid the owner of a farm at the edge of town, near where the Ohio and Wabash rivers converge, $10,000 to dig for artifacts.
They dug in a burial ground for a Native American village archaeologists believe was established in the 1400s and inhabited until 1700 or later. Known since the mid-1800s when the Smithsonian Institution sponsored a limited dig there for artifacts still housed in the Washington, D.C., museum the site was on what was known locally as the Slack Farm.
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