695: Maya Smoke Imix, king of Copán, Honduras is buried, according to some sources.
1754: According to some reports, a peace agreement is reached by representatives of the British in Massachusetts and the Norridgewock Indians
Monday, July 2, 2007
Proclamation affirms honor and respect for Coast Salish traditions.
Event coincides with beginning of Intertribal Canoe Journey
By Richard Walker
SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. - Local and state officials have signed a proclamation recognizing Coast Salish peoples as the First Peoples of this land and these waters.
The proclamation will be read by Bellingham Mayor Tim Douglas July 7 at Bellingham's Boulevard Park, in a day that includes cultural activities and an honoring ceremony; the chairmen of Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Swinomish, Upper Skagit and Tulalip have been invited. The proclamation names the day ''Tribal Journeys Day'' and affirms honor and respect for Coast Salish traditions and contributions to life in the Northwest.
The proclamation bears the signatures of county and state officials, as well as every mayor in Whatcom County. It states, in part:
''The Intertribal Canoe Journey empowers the Coast Salish Peoples and contributes historically, culturally, educationally, spiritually and artistically to the Intertribal Communities and their neighbors. Relationships are strengthened, family ties are renewed and all ages gather together building communities in a good way.
''The spirit of friendship, honor and goodwill between all Nations is a gift we can give the next Seven Generations.
''This is an opportunity for communities, neighbors and supporters of the Canoe Journey to touch each other's lives.
''Through this proclamation we celebrate the First Peoples' traditions and cultures, honoring them as the first inhabitants of this land and these waters.''
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415321
By Richard Walker
SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. - Local and state officials have signed a proclamation recognizing Coast Salish peoples as the First Peoples of this land and these waters.
The proclamation will be read by Bellingham Mayor Tim Douglas July 7 at Bellingham's Boulevard Park, in a day that includes cultural activities and an honoring ceremony; the chairmen of Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Swinomish, Upper Skagit and Tulalip have been invited. The proclamation names the day ''Tribal Journeys Day'' and affirms honor and respect for Coast Salish traditions and contributions to life in the Northwest.
The proclamation bears the signatures of county and state officials, as well as every mayor in Whatcom County. It states, in part:
''The Intertribal Canoe Journey empowers the Coast Salish Peoples and contributes historically, culturally, educationally, spiritually and artistically to the Intertribal Communities and their neighbors. Relationships are strengthened, family ties are renewed and all ages gather together building communities in a good way.
''The spirit of friendship, honor and goodwill between all Nations is a gift we can give the next Seven Generations.
''This is an opportunity for communities, neighbors and supporters of the Canoe Journey to touch each other's lives.
''Through this proclamation we celebrate the First Peoples' traditions and cultures, honoring them as the first inhabitants of this land and these waters.''
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415321
N.M. senators proposing bill to settle Navajo water dispute
Say administration inaction forces vote by Congress
By Jennifer Talhelm
WASHINGTON — New Mexico's U.S. senators, impatient with the Bush administration's inaction on a water settlement involving the Navajo Nation, said Wednesday they are ready to push forward without the government's backing.
Administration officials say they oppose the settlement reached between the Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico over San Juan Basin water, which would cost the federal government $1 billion over 15 to 20 years. They say they're working on their proposal.
Sens. Jeff Bingaman, a Democrat, and Pete Domenici, a Republican, said the government has had five years to study the proposed settlement.
With as many as half of the people living on the Navajo Reservation without running water and the nearby city of Gallup, N.M., worried it will run out of water, the senators said they are ready to bypass the administration and just let Congress vote on settlement legislation.
"There needs to be closure on this," Bingaman said at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing about the settlement. "The federal government has been AWOL. I see no reason we can't proceed."
Click here to read more: http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/189624
By Jennifer Talhelm
WASHINGTON — New Mexico's U.S. senators, impatient with the Bush administration's inaction on a water settlement involving the Navajo Nation, said Wednesday they are ready to push forward without the government's backing.
Administration officials say they oppose the settlement reached between the Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico over San Juan Basin water, which would cost the federal government $1 billion over 15 to 20 years. They say they're working on their proposal.
Sens. Jeff Bingaman, a Democrat, and Pete Domenici, a Republican, said the government has had five years to study the proposed settlement.
With as many as half of the people living on the Navajo Reservation without running water and the nearby city of Gallup, N.M., worried it will run out of water, the senators said they are ready to bypass the administration and just let Congress vote on settlement legislation.
"There needs to be closure on this," Bingaman said at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing about the settlement. "The federal government has been AWOL. I see no reason we can't proceed."
Click here to read more: http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/189624
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Ancient ancestor is laid to rest
An American Indian whose remains date back 1, 000 years is given a dignified burial on museum grounds.
By KAMEEL STANLEY
SAFETY HARBOR - As about 20 women in tunics and moccasins formed the funeral procession, the crowd grew silent.
About 200 people gathered at the Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History on Saturday morning for an event a millennium in the making.
Parents brought families, and virtually everyone had a camera. As the private ceremony involving a few people took place inside, the crowd hummed with anticipation.
Then, spectators watched, transfixed, as the remains of a Tocobaga Indian were carried out on a shroud-covered cedar board.
They surged forward when prayers spoken in Cherokee were offered up, and members of the Spirit People Intertribal Family used shells to scoop up dirt and pour it on the fresh grave.
And when the tribal leader raised his hand to signal the conclusion of the funeral, many murmured "Amen."
"He has gone home, " said tribal leader Robert Chastain.
Saturday's public burial of ancient American Indian remains was a rare and solemn event.
"The quietness, the stillness, was impressive, " said Eva Christu of Tarpon Springs, who took her family to the event. "It was a cultural experience."
The burial was the end of a nearly four-year journey for the museum, which received the bones in 2003 after someone left an unwanted box on the doorstep.
After going through a federally proscribed process, the museum's curators learned that the remains were that of a Tocobaga Indian who lived in the area more than 1, 000 years ago. Because they only had some fragments to study, researchers at the University of Florida couldn't determine the gender of the Indian or the cause of death.
Click here to read more: http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/01/Northpinellas/Ancient_ancestor_is_l.shtml
By KAMEEL STANLEY
SAFETY HARBOR - As about 20 women in tunics and moccasins formed the funeral procession, the crowd grew silent.
About 200 people gathered at the Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History on Saturday morning for an event a millennium in the making.
Parents brought families, and virtually everyone had a camera. As the private ceremony involving a few people took place inside, the crowd hummed with anticipation.
Then, spectators watched, transfixed, as the remains of a Tocobaga Indian were carried out on a shroud-covered cedar board.
They surged forward when prayers spoken in Cherokee were offered up, and members of the Spirit People Intertribal Family used shells to scoop up dirt and pour it on the fresh grave.
And when the tribal leader raised his hand to signal the conclusion of the funeral, many murmured "Amen."
"He has gone home, " said tribal leader Robert Chastain.
Saturday's public burial of ancient American Indian remains was a rare and solemn event.
"The quietness, the stillness, was impressive, " said Eva Christu of Tarpon Springs, who took her family to the event. "It was a cultural experience."
The burial was the end of a nearly four-year journey for the museum, which received the bones in 2003 after someone left an unwanted box on the doorstep.
After going through a federally proscribed process, the museum's curators learned that the remains were that of a Tocobaga Indian who lived in the area more than 1, 000 years ago. Because they only had some fragments to study, researchers at the University of Florida couldn't determine the gender of the Indian or the cause of death.
Click here to read more: http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/01/Northpinellas/Ancient_ancestor_is_l.shtml
Quotes
"When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food, and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself." -
Tecumseh - Shawnee
Tecumseh - Shawnee
'Day of Action' begins; Mohawk militants block Highway 2
Ontario, Canada
Mohawk protesters, who say they are armed and won't back down, have begun threatened blockades in eastern Ontario.
About 40 Mohawks parked an old school bus across secondary Highway 2 west of Deseronto just before 9 p.m., forcing a steady stream of traffic and heavy trucks to turn around.
The protesters planned to expand their blockade to the nearby CN Rail main line and to heavily travelled Highway 401, ignoring widespread calls that an aboriginal day of action be peaceful.
One angry motorist yelled at some of the younger protesters and a brief exchange of swearing ensued. Others were more understanding.
A truck driver named Mike was trying to get home to Belleville. "I don't mind," he said of the blockade. "I just have to get turned around."
A few of the protesters helped guide the big rigs on to a driveway to make the awkward manoeuvre.
Mohawks wearing bandanas over their faces sparked up a bonfire, formed a drumming circle and sang. Protest leader Shawn Brant described the Highway 2 blockade as a "soft target" before the Mohawks move on to either the CN rail line, or Highway 401 - or both.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.thewhig.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=591756&catname=Local+News&classif
Mohawk protesters, who say they are armed and won't back down, have begun threatened blockades in eastern Ontario.
About 40 Mohawks parked an old school bus across secondary Highway 2 west of Deseronto just before 9 p.m., forcing a steady stream of traffic and heavy trucks to turn around.
The protesters planned to expand their blockade to the nearby CN Rail main line and to heavily travelled Highway 401, ignoring widespread calls that an aboriginal day of action be peaceful.
One angry motorist yelled at some of the younger protesters and a brief exchange of swearing ensued. Others were more understanding.
A truck driver named Mike was trying to get home to Belleville. "I don't mind," he said of the blockade. "I just have to get turned around."
A few of the protesters helped guide the big rigs on to a driveway to make the awkward manoeuvre.
Mohawks wearing bandanas over their faces sparked up a bonfire, formed a drumming circle and sang. Protest leader Shawn Brant described the Highway 2 blockade as a "soft target" before the Mohawks move on to either the CN rail line, or Highway 401 - or both.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.thewhig.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=591756&catname=Local+News&classif
Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation
Excerpt from a speech April 2, 1993 - Sweet Briar College
by Wilma Mankiller - Former Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Tonight I wanted to talk to you about rebuilding the Cherokee Nation community by community and person by person, or specifically rebuilding the Cherokee Nation, but I've also been asked by a number of people to talk about myself and my own sort of growth into a leadership position, essentially from first being a rural Cherokee person, one of eleven children and then being relocated to an urban ghetto and spending time in an urban ghetto, and how I evolved as a woman into a leadership position, so I'll try to weave some of that into my story of rebuilding the Cherokee Nation and the process we've been undergoing for the last two decades.
I think first it's important before I start talking about what we're doing today in the 1990's and what we did throughout the eighties or even the seventies in rebuilding our tribe; I think it's really, really important to put our current work and our current issues in a historical context. I can't tell you how many everyday Americans that I've talked with who've visited a tribal community in Oklahoma or in other places, and they've looked around and they saw all the social indicators of decline: high infant mortality, high unemployment, many, many other very serious problems among our people, and they always ask, " What happened to these people? Why do native people have all these problems?", and I think that in order to understand the contemporary issues we're dealing with today and how we plan to dig our way out and how indeed we are digging our way out, you have to understand a little bit about history. Because there are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
Click here to read entire piece: http://gos.sbc.edu/m/mankiller.html
by Wilma Mankiller - Former Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Tonight I wanted to talk to you about rebuilding the Cherokee Nation community by community and person by person, or specifically rebuilding the Cherokee Nation, but I've also been asked by a number of people to talk about myself and my own sort of growth into a leadership position, essentially from first being a rural Cherokee person, one of eleven children and then being relocated to an urban ghetto and spending time in an urban ghetto, and how I evolved as a woman into a leadership position, so I'll try to weave some of that into my story of rebuilding the Cherokee Nation and the process we've been undergoing for the last two decades.
I think first it's important before I start talking about what we're doing today in the 1990's and what we did throughout the eighties or even the seventies in rebuilding our tribe; I think it's really, really important to put our current work and our current issues in a historical context. I can't tell you how many everyday Americans that I've talked with who've visited a tribal community in Oklahoma or in other places, and they've looked around and they saw all the social indicators of decline: high infant mortality, high unemployment, many, many other very serious problems among our people, and they always ask, " What happened to these people? Why do native people have all these problems?", and I think that in order to understand the contemporary issues we're dealing with today and how we plan to dig our way out and how indeed we are digging our way out, you have to understand a little bit about history. Because there are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.
Click here to read entire piece: http://gos.sbc.edu/m/mankiller.html
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