Dec 31st, 2008 Posted in DAKOTA HISTORY | Comments Off
December 27th: From Chuck.
I arrived in Mankato on Christmas day at about 6 pm. I missed the afternoon arrival of the riders, but got there in time for the evening event. When I got to the conference room, there was a Native young lady that was singing a Christmas related carol, it was just about over by that time, so I don’t know who she was or what she was singing. There were a couple of speakers that came on and spoke of the ride, Sheldon Wolf Child was one of them and a guy from Canada. Sheldon covered some of the history and the Canadian spoke of the support from Canada and then went on to talk about abstinence from alcohol, etc.
The riders were then called up to form a
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Dec 31st, 2008 Posted in PINE RIDGE | Comments Off
Dakota 38+2 Ride on the way to Mankato
Submitted by Ellen Feuerhelm on Thu, 2008-12-18 11:33.
Today we arrived the American Legion in Pipestone, Minnesota to help serve breakfast to the riders. It was amazing to see all the people. Isaiah Miller from Pine Ridge said “My father Jim Miller had a dream and he is the one holding the staff.” Isaiah is from Pine Ridge. The Lower Sioux Tribal Police have been helping provide a safe escort for the horses. My daughter Kari helped serve Lunch at the Stephanie and Rich DeRuyter farm located in Ruthton, Minnesota. The farm provided a
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Dec 31st, 2008 Posted in DAKOTA HISTORY | Comments Off
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Dec 16th, 2008 Posted in GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS | Comments Off
Just a reminder that NACC’s Diabetes breakfast is this Thursday! Come eat a nutritious breakfast and learn something new, we hope to see you there! Thank you!
Rhonda R. Hunt
Healthy Generations Maternal and Child Health Program Coordinator
Native American Community Clinic
1213 East Franklin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-872-8086 ext.114
612-872-8547 fax
rhunt@nacc-healthcare.org
www.nacc-healthcare.org
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Dec 16th, 2008 Posted in NATIVE HOLLYWOOD, STORIES, FOLKLORE & HISTORY | Comments Off
From: NAFM OFFICE [mailto:atoka1@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:06 PM
To: Georgia Wettlin-Larsen
Subject: “Lost Sparrow” Premiere
Received this in regard to an incident that had occurred recently.
Director/Producer, Lost Sparrow
The documentary Lost Sparrow will premier at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, UT on Friday, January 16 at 12:30 pm at the Treasure Mountain Inn’s Main Screening Room. The film will also screen on January 20 at 3 pm in the Gallery Screening Room.
Lost Sparrow is the culmination of filmmaker Chris Billing’s two-year investigation into the tragic deaths of his two adopted Crow Indian brothers, Bobby and Tyler. The probe uncovered dark family secrets, but also led to healing and redemption. A brief synopsis is below.
Lost Sparrow features music by premier Native American flute player R. Carlos Nakai. The film’s website is www.lostsparrowmovie.com.
On June 26, 1978, two Crow Indian brothers ran away from home. Early the next morning, they were struck and killed by a freight train. Their mysterious and sudden deaths sent shockwaves through the tiny, upstate New York community of Little Falls. No one could understand why Bobby, 13, and Tyler, 11, had run away from the white, Baptist family that seven years earlier had adopted them and their two biological sisters out of a troubled home on the Crow Reservation in Montana .
Their adoptive home – a vast 19th-century Victorian castle – seemed idyllic. But the boys had discovered a dark secret. They were killed as they tried to return to the reservation to get help for their sister Lana.
In the documentary film Lost Sparrow, filmmaker Chris Billing investigates the tragic deaths of his adopted brothers Bobby and Tyler, and confronts a painful truth that shattered his family.
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Dec 15th, 2008 Posted in NEWS & POLITICS | Comments Off
>>Please FORWARD my message to everyone you know and help block
>>this outrageous giveaway of our natural heritage. Thank you for
>>doing your part to save this natural treasure. — Robert Redford
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>>Dear Friend,
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>>No one voted on Election Day to hand over Utah’s Redrock
>>wilderness to oil companies.
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>>But the Bush Administration cynically chose that very day to
>>advance an outrageous plan that will sell off leases for some
>>160,000 acres of spectacular Utah canyonlands to oil and gas
>>speculators.
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>>While America was voting for Barack Obama and his vision of a
>>clean energy future, Bush and Cheney’s underlings were
>>conspiring to plunder one of the crown jewels of our natural
>>heritage for their fossil fuel cronies.
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>>Please register your own opposition right now:
>>http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/m7xiMdd13PJm/
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>>The auction of Redrock country will take place on December 19.
>>At stake are world-renowned vistas near Canyonlands and Arches
>>National Parks, as well as near Dinosaur National Monument. The
>>highest bidders will earn the right to turn vast tracts of
>>pristine wilderness into industrial wastelands.
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>>It’s bad enough that Bush officials went behind the backs of the
>>American people with this disastrous scheme. But what’s worse,
>>they didn’t even tell their own National Park Service until
>>after the fact.
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>>In my mind, this theft of our heritage goes beyond the cynical
>>– it’s criminal. What will be left to give to our children and
>>their children if we allow this administration, in a parting
>>shot, to destroy our legacy of public lands for short-term gain?
>>
>>I hope you’re as angry as I am about this blatant land grab,
>>because we’ve got to stop it — and we have to act fast. The
>>NRDC Action Fund is mobilizing more than one million Americans
>>in an outpouring of protest over the coming days.
>>
>>Send your own message of opposition immediately:
>>http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/m7xiMdd13PJm/
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>>Tell the Bush Administration that you will not allow it to
>>destroy one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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>>We’ll automatically send copies of your message to your two
>>senators, your representative and to the Obama transition team,
>>which has signaled their opposition to this disastrous attack on
>>our Redrock heritage.
>>
>>The Bush Administration is racing to complete the auction of our
>>lands before Inauguration Day, which will make sales difficult
>>to reverse.
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>>We must fend off this land grab now — before the oil and gas
>>companies can lay claim to the spoils.
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>>Those spoils include stretches of Desolation Canyon, which has
>>been proposed for national park status. Bush’s own Interior
>>Department describes the canyon as “a place where a visitor can
>>experience true solitude — where the forces of nature continue
>>to shape the colorful, rugged landscape.”
>>
>>The very idea of oil and gas operations invading these remote
>>sanctuaries — which have remained untouched for millennia — is
>>deeply upsetting. Once the dirty deed is done, our wilderness
>>can never be restored. That’s why I’m asking you to help us
>>sound the alarm and organize now.
>>
>>Tell the Bush Administration to cancel the Redrock auction:
>>http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/m7xiMdd13PJm/
>>
>>Remind them that we the people are the rightful owners of this
>>majestic wilderness and that we won’t stand for its destruction.
>>
>>And thank you for joining with me and the NRDC Action Fund to
>>save these beautiful wildlands for all future generations.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Robert Redford
>>NRDC Action Fund
>>
>>P.S. After you send your own message of protest, I’ll let you
>>know of an easy way to spread the word to your friends and
>>family:
>>http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/m7xiMdd13PJm/ . With only 10 days
>>to mobilize one million Americans, I’m counting on you to rally
>>everyone you know to speak out and save this precious wilderness
>>from destruction.
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>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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>>If you would prefer not to receive action alerts and updates,
>>you can click here to remove yourself from this list:
>>http://www.nrdconline.org/actionfund/remove-domain-direct.tcl?ctx=subscription&nkey=8iwe6nx447tkj3ik&
>>(or you can reply to this email with the word “remove” in the
>>subject line.)
>>
>>To update your email or mailing address, or to view all your
>>subscriptions, click here:
>>http://www.nrdconline.org/actionfund/smp.tcl?nkey=8iwe6nx447tkj3ik&
>>
>>The NRDC Action Fund is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Natural
>>Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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Dec 14th, 2008 Posted in OBITUARIES | Comments Off
An Esteemed Elder has left us…
Vincent (Vince) Hill, Age 70 of Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
- Wake Sunday, December 14, – 6 p.m. (until 8 p.m.) Location: Thompson Dougherty Funeral Home, 2535 Park Avenue, South Minneapolis (612) 871-4407
- Visitation Monday, December 15 – 9 a.m. (until 10 a.m.) Location: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 3921 Nicollet Avenue, South Minneapolis (612) 822-8108
- Funeral Monday, December 15 – 10 a.m. Location: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 3921 Nicollet Avenue, South Minneapolis (612) 822-8108
William (Bill) Carter
American Indian Community Advocate
City of Minneapolis
Direct: (612) 673-3028
Fax: (612) 673-2599
Strength and answers (to you)
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Dec 12th, 2008 Posted in COLD WATER SPRINGS | Comments Off
Mitakuyepi,
To All who are interested in the current develops regarding Coldwater Spring:
Here is the letter recently sent out from The National Park Service
that we have posted on our Preserve Camp Coldwater Coalition website
(www.preservecampcoldwatercoalition.org).
We also have the Coldwater Coalitions comments to the Draft EIS posted that was submitted by our attorney, Tom Casey,
if anyone is interested.
Jeanne cistinna, de miye
—–Forwarded Message—–
From: budtbum@mninter.net
Sent: Dec 4, 2008 9:11 PM
To: pccc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PCCC] NPS letter on Coldwater
In case anyone is not on the NPS email list, here’s the official letter.
Tom
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Dec 12th, 2008 Posted in OBITUARIES | Comments Off
A ceremony and feast will be held at 2801 – 18th Ave. S. Mpls. on Monday, December 15, 2008 at noon, for David Beaulieu who is on his journey to the spirit world. Big Dave was dedicated to the American Indian community and worked as a secruity guard. His last employment was at St. Mary’s University over two years ago. At that time, Dave had a heart condition forcing him to retire early. Please join his family and friends at this time.
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Dec 12th, 2008 Posted in NEWS & POLITICS | Comments Off
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Presented by the National Council of Churches USA, produced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Native Nations, hosted by Peter Coyote, chronicles the American Indians’ struggle for civil rights, and the creation of the National Indian Lutheran Board to raise funds and awareness for that struggle. From the controversy surrounding the 1862 trial when 38 Dakota Sioux were executed in the largest single-day mass hanging in United States history, to the confrontation of the 1960s when many Indian tribes joined together to speak out with a unified voice, Native Nations tells the story of standing together for sovereignty, justice and civil rights.
ON KSTP TV CH 5 ABC MINNEAPOLIS MN 12/28/08 3:00 PM
This documentary film will be presented by Syd Beane at All Nations Indian Church on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 11:30 a.m.
Visit www.elca.org/nativenations for a video preview.
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William (Bill) Carter
American Indian Community Advocate
City of Minneapolis
Direct: (612) 673-3028
Fax: (612) 673-2599
Strength and answers (to you)
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