WAKE
Tuesday, August 19 11AM
Minneapolis American Indian Center
1530 Franklin Avenue
The family asks that visitors please respect Our Ways by attending the wake and services free of drugs and alcohol.
BURIAL
Wastewin’s life and Return to Spirit will be honored on Wednesday, August 20th at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. Exact times will be posted soon on this site.
Donations to help defray expenses may be sent to any Bremer Bank in the name of WASTEWIN GONZALEZ MEMORIAL FUND. Thank you.
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Crystal Shawanda
K102 ’s Crystal Shawanda CD Release Party
Tuesday, August 19th
6pm Doors, 8pm PerformanceThe Cabooze (18+)
917 Cedar Ave South
Minneapolis MN, 55404
$10 at the door gets the new CD “Dawn of a New Day” and the performance!
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The Fast Horse Report:
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KFAI’s Indian Uprising, August 17, 2008 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. CDT #278
Guests:
Brenda Norrell (NI), Independent Journalist for Censored News: http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com; Listen at Earthcycles: http://www.earthcycles.net. She was a reporter for Indian Country Today, now located in New York.
Clara NiiSka, (Ahnishinahbaeotjibway), Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota and previously, a reporter for the Native American Press/Ojibwe News, Minnesota.
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Indian Uprising is a KFAI Public & Cultural Affairs program relevant to Native Indigenous people, broadcast each Sunday on 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul. Volunteer producer & host is Chris Spotted Eagle.
For internet listening, visit www.kfai.org, click Play under ON AIR NOW or for listening later via their archives, click PROGRAMS & SCHEDULE > Indian Uprising > STREAM. Programs are archived for two weeks.
Executive Proclamation
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Office of the Tribal Chairman
Whereas, the Tribal Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, by and
through its authority vested by the Revised Constitution and By-laws
adopted Resolution No. SW-08-079; and
Whereas, by that resolution the Tribal Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton
Oyate Lake Traverse Reservation declared that the Dakota language
embodies the life, culture and identity of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
and revitalization is paramount to the survival of our Nation; and,
Whereas, the Tribal Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Lake Traverse
Reservation recognized the importance of revitalizing the Dakota
language and declared that it will be recognized as the first language
of the people of the Lake Traverse Reservation and we must eliminate the
disparity between the use of English and the Dakota language; and
Whereas, in this year, 2008, from January through this date, nine - and
possibly more - of our fluent treasured elders have went on their
journey to the spirit world representing a loss to the Oyate of nine
percent (9%) of the entire population of our fluent treasured elders:
Now, Therefore, I, Michael I. Selvage Sr., Tribal Chairman of the
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, do hereby proclaim a Dakota Language Crisis and
further declare that the Dakota language is in a state of emergency.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed
the Great Seal of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, on the Lake Traverse
Reservation, in Agency Village, South Dakota, this 30th day of July,
2008.
/s/Michael I. Selvage Sr., Tribal Chairman
Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language Program
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Lots of changes continue to occur on Franklin Avenue. New people, new buildings, new trees, new sidewalks, new flower pots, are all adding to a new history of the ave. Franklin Ave has a unique and colorful history, good and bad. In either case, American Indians have been a critical part of this history.
It is important that the American Indian community continue to define and claim a geographic and cultural presence in Minneapolis and Franklin Ave is one of those critical anchors.
Please join us next Wednesday evening, starting at 6:00pm, at All Nations Indian Church and be a part of thinking about the future of Franklin Avenue–one of the most well-known urban American Indian streets in the United States.
–
Justin Kii Huenemann
President
Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI)
1404 East Franklin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-872-4700
http://www.nacdi.org
Birch Coulee Gathering of Kinship
August 29-31
Birch Coulee Battlefield/State Park in Morton, MN.
MC is Dallas Goldtooth; Spiritual Advisor is Chris Leith.
This Traditional Wacipi brings the people together to commemorate all
who fought in the Battle of Birch Coulee and the 38+2 warriors hanged in
Mankato on December 26, 1862. Birch Coulee is the site of the victory
battle during the War of 1862. Camping is available, meals are
provided. Friday is Camp Day with sessions on Saturday and Sunday.
Vendors are welcome. Craft stands are charged $150 and Food Stands are
charged $100. Local hotels are Jackpot Junction, Dakota Inn and Morton
Inn.
Pidamaya.
GARDEN MARKET at WOLVES DEN
EVERY THURSDAY THROUGH AUGUST 21
Dream of Wild Health will be selling fresh, organic produce at the
Wolves Den, 1201 E. Franklin Avenue, Mpls, on Thursday, July 31, from 10
am to noon. This week Native teens from the Twin Cities will be selling
at low cost freshly picked produce including green beans, carrots, kale,
onion bunches, zucchini (summer squash), cabbage, radishes, flowers, and
more. These teens are part of the Garden Warriors program, a four-week
garden apprenticeship that teaches teens about healthy food, organic
gardening, diabetes prevention, and job skills.
/Dream of Wild Health is a 10-acre Native owned and run farm in Hugo,
MN. For more information, visit www.petawakantipi.org./
COMPOST NEWS!
Garden legend Will Allen is coming to Dream of Wild Health on Sunday,
August 17, for a working demonstration of setting up a compost site. A
former professional basketball player, Will Allen transformed a farm in
downtown Milwaukee into an intensively farmed greenhouse and
vermicompost site where youth from the city can work and sell produce.
For more information on Will Allen’s “Growing Power” business &
organization:
http://www.growingpower.org
DATE: Sunday, August 17th, approximately 10am-2pm.
LOCATION: Dream of Wild Health Farm, 16085 Jefferey Avenue, Hugo MN,
55038; 651-439-3840
WHAT: Set up the compost site and enjoy a healthy lunch.
WHAT TO BRING: Sunscreen, water, garden clothes, gloves, & several
dollars donation for Potluck.
Senate hopeful Franken to campaign at powwow
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Filed Under: Politics | Red LakeU.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, a Democrat, will campaign on the Red Lake Nation in northern Minnesota on Friday. Franken, a well-known comedian, plans to attend the Red Lake Fair and Powwow. He will observe the grand entry and address attendees during the visit. Franken is facing Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota), who supported the nomination of “Famous” Dave Anderson to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Polls show the race to be a tie. |
New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo
textbook
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — In the Navajo language, there’s no one word that translates into “go” — it’s more like a sentence.
“There are so many ways of ‘going,”‘ said Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, a Navajo professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. “It states who is going, how many of us are going, where are we going. So the tense, the adverb, the subject, the number of people, all of that is tied up in one little tiny verb.”
Those verbs are part of what makes the Navajo language — one of seven American Indian languages taught in the New Mexico school system — one of the most difficult to learn, she said. Yazzie is hopeful a book she recently wrote will provide a user-friendly way for New Mexico students to learn not only the language but the culture of a tribe that long has tied the two elements.
State officials formally adopted Yazzie’s book, Dine Bizaad Binahoo’ahh, or Rediscovering the Navajo Language, this week in Santa Fe. While other books on Navajo language exist, state officials say New Mexico is the first to adopt a Navajo textbook for use in the public education system.
“Overall, we believe it will help improve academic achievement,” said state Education Secretary Veronica Garcia.
Garcia said research has shown that students who master their native language often have an easier time understanding more abstract concepts in the English language.
About 10 school districts in New Mexico provide Navajo language instruction. During the 2006-07 school year, 5,024 students were learning Navajo.
The Navajo language long had been an oral language, and many Navajo elders fluent in their native tongue cannot read or write the language. Tribal officials have expressed concern that the language is dying among the youth, leading to some immersion programs on the reservation.
School districts in New Mexico, as well as U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, can review Yazzie’s book and decide whether to use it starting in the 2009-10 school year. The book will be accompanied by a CD with the voices of Yazzie and her brother, Berlyn Yazzie, a former educator and administrator on the Navajo Nation.
Each chapter of the book begins with a cultural lesson and guides readers through verbs and sentence construction.
It also includes pictures of people who have lived on the Navajo reservation, which stretches into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. Yazzie said she looks forward to students sharing the book with Navajo elders and “pretty soon conversation will be sparking around fires.”
Mendota is having a Cultural Exchange evening on Tuesday September 9th. Look for more information coming soon.
It’s an award that is given to 5% of students in Minnesota of every age group. It is given to students who have been good in class, gets all A’s, and participates in class discussions. His family is so proud of him. The Mendota Community is also proud of him.
20th Century - USA Genocide?
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The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks at the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the order of the U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed on August 9 by the detonation of the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, roughly half on the days of the bombings. Since then, thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs. In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians. –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
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The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century by John Pilger
Published on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 by The Guardian/UK Common Dreams
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims. names, we
must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still
there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs
splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to
open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and
her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an
hour or more, then walked down to the river and met a man called Yukio,
whose chest was still etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing
when the atomic bomb was dropped.
He and his family still lived in a shack thrown up in the dust of an
atomic desert. He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light,
something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado
and black rain fell. “I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the
stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I
got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no
skin or hair. I was certain I was dead”. Nine years later, when I returned
to look for him, he was dead from leukemia.
In the immediate aftermath of the bomb, the allied occupation authorities
banned all mention of radiation poisoning and insisted that people had
been killed or injured only by the bomb’s blast. It was the first big lie.
“No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin” said the front page of the New York
Times, a classic of disinformation and journalistic abdication, which the
Australian reporter Wilfred Burchett put right with his scoop of the
century. “I write this as a warning to the world,” reported Burchett in
the Daily Express, having reached Hiroshima after a perilous journey, the
first correspondent to dare. He described hospital wards filled with
people with no visible injuries but who were dying from what he called “an
atomic plague”. For telling this truth, his press accreditation was
withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared - and vindicated.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a criminal act on an epic
scale. It was premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of
intrinsic criminality. For this reason its apologists have sought refuge
in the mythology of the ultimate “good war”, whose “ethical bath”, as
Richard Drayton called it, has allowed the west not only to expiate its
bloody imperial past but to promote 60 years of rapacious war, always
beneath the shadow of The Bomb.
The most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war
in the Pacific and save lives. “Even without the atomic bombing attacks,”
concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, “air
supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about
unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a
detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of
the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that
“Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been
dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion
had been planned or contemplated”.
The National Archives in Washington contain US government documents that
chart Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable
sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by
the US dispels any doubt that the Japanese were desperate to sue for
peace, including “capitulation even if the terms were hard”. Instead, the
US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was “fearful”
that the US air force would have Japan so “bombed out” that the new weapon
would not be able “to show its strength”. He later admitted that “no
effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender
merely in order not to have to use the bomb”. His foreign policy
colleagues were eager “to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather
ostentatiously on our hip”. General Leslie Groves, director of the
Manhattan Project that made the bomb, testified: “There was never any
illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was
conducted on that basis”. The day after Hiroshima was obliterated,
President Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “overwhelming success”
of “the experiment”.
Since 1945, the United States is believed to have been on the brink of
using nuclear weapons at least three times. In waging their bogus “war on
terror”, the present governments in Washington and London have declared
they are prepared to make “pre-emptive” nuclear strikes against
non-nuclear states. With each stroke toward the midnight of a nuclear
Armageddon, the lies of justification grow more outrageous. Iran is the
current “threat”. But Iran has no nuclear weapons and the disinformation
that it is planning a nuclear arsenal comes largely from a discredited
CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition group, the MEK - just as the lies about
Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction originated with the Iraqi
National Congress, set up by Washington.
The role of western journalism in erecting this straw man is critical.
That America’s Defense Intelligence Estimate says “with high confidence”
that Iran gave up its nuclear weapons program in 2003 has been consigned
to the memory hole. That Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never
threatened to “wipe Israel off the map” is of no interest. But such has
been the mantra of this media “fact” that in his recent, obsequious
performance before the Israeli parliament, Gordon Brown alluded to it as
he threatened Iran, yet again.
This progression of lies has brought us to one of the most dangerous
nuclear crises since 1945, because the real threat remains almost
unmentionable in western establishment circles and therefore in the media.
There is only one rampant nuclear power in the Middle East and that is
Israel. The heroic Mordechai Vanunu tried to warn the world in 1986 when
he smuggled out evidence that Israel was building as many as 200 nuclear
warheads. In defiance of UN resolutions, Israel is today clearly itching
to attack Iran, fearful that a new American administration might, just
might, conduct genuine negotiations with a nation the west has defiled
since Britain and America overthrew Iranian democracy in 1953.
In the New York Times on July 18, the Israeli historian Benny Morris, once
considered a liberal and now a consultant to his country’s political and
military establishment, threatened “an Iran turned into a nuclear
wasteland”. This would be mass murder. For a Jew, the irony cries out.
The question begs: are the rest of us to be mere bystanders, claiming, as
good Germans did, that “we did not know”? Do we hide ever more behind what
Richard Falk has called “a self-righteous, one-way, legal/moral screen
[with] positive images of western values and innocence portrayed as
threatened, validating a campaign of unrestricted violence”? Catching war
criminals is fashionable again. Radovan Karadzic stands in the dock, but
Sharon and Olmert, Bush and Blair do not. Why not? The memory of Hiroshima
requires an answer.
johnpilger.com
Andrea Carmen
Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council
Web Site: www.treatycouncil.org
E-Mail: andrea@treatycouncil.org
Office: 907-745-4482
Fax: 907-745-4484
Reconciliation between States and Indigenous Peoples highlighted on
International Day
(New York, 6 August) – In commemoration of the International Day of
the World’s Indigenous People (9 August), an observance at UN
Headquarters on Friday, 8 August will focus on efforts by indigenous
peoples and States to foster reconciliation.
A panel discussion, titled “Conciliation and Reconciliation between
States and Indigenous Peoples,” will include speakers Gert Rosenthal,
Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations; Henri
Paul Normandin, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the
United Nations; and Chief Oren Lyons, spiritual leader, Onondaga
Nation (see full programme below).
Reconciliation between indigenous peoples and States can take many
forms that differ from country to country. Generally it involves
recognition for past injustices, justice for victims and the healing
of relationships. The adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in 2007, after more than 20 years of negotiations
among States and indigenous peoples with the mediation of the United
Nations, is itself an historic act of reconciliation.
In a message to mark the Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
highlighted the Declaration, saying: “The result of more than two
decades of negotiations, [the Declaration] provides a momentous
opportunity for states and indigenous peoples to strengthen their
relationships, promote reconciliation, and ensure that the past is
not repeated.”
Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social
Affairs and Coordinator of the Second International Decade of the
World’s Indigenous People, further emphasized that “the Declaration
is a manifestation of reconciliation between indigenous peoples and
states – and a mechanism for carrying that reconciliation forward.
Indeed, 2008 has already witnessed concrete measures towards
reconciliation in several countries.”
Some recent examples of reconciliation efforts include:
- In February 2008, the Australian Government formally
apologized to members of the “Stolen Generations” and their families,
for the policy of forcible removal of indigenous children, which
affected generations of indigenous Australians.
- In June 2008, Prime Minister Harper of Canada offered an
apology to the approximately 80,000 former students of Indian
residential schools still living, to their family members and their
communities, for the forcible removal of children from their homes.
- In June 2008, the Government of Japan formally recognized
the Ainu people as indigenous people of Northern Japan. The
resolution adopted by the Parliament states that the Ainu have a
distinct language, religion and culture, recognizing that Japan is
not an ethnically homogenous nation.
PROGRAMME
Friday, 8 August, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, UN Headquarters
Welcome Ceremony
Message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
Message from Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Sha Zukang
Message from the Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum
on Indigenous Issues, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Halau i Ka Wekiu (School Upon the Summit) Cultural Performance
Panel Discussion: Conciliation and Reconciliation between Indigenous
Peoples and States
Part of the New Human Rights Dialogue Series, commemorating the 60th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Panelists:
Gert Rosenthal, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United
Nations
Henri Paul Normandin, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to
the United Nations
Andrew Goledzinowski,Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to
the United Nations
Marcie Mersky, Liaison Officer, United Nations Department of
Political Affairs
Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Member
of Grand Council of Chiefs of the Haudenosaunee
Master of Ceremonies: Roberto Múcaro Borrero (Taíno, Puerto Rico),
Chairperson,
NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous
Peoples
This event is organized by the Secretariat of the United Nations
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues DSPD/DESA, the NGO Committee on
the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and the
New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Co-
sponsored by the Tribal Link Foundation and the American Museum of
Natural History.
FILM SCREENING: THE APOLOGY
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
A 30-minute film screening organized by the Permanent Mission of
Australia to the United Nations will follow the panel discussion.
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People is officially
commemorated annually on 9 August in recognition of the first meeting
of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in
Geneva in 1982.
MEDIA ARRANGEMENTS: Journalists without UN accreditation who wish to
attend the event should follow the instructions for obtaining
accreditation at www.un.org/media/accreditation For media enquiries
or interviews, please contact: Renata Sivacolundhu, Department of
Public Information, tel: 212 963 2932, e-mail: mediainfo@un.org. For
Secretariat of the Permanent Forum, please contact: Broddi
Sigurdarson, tel: 917 367 2106, e-mail:
IndigenousPermanentForum@un.org
For more information on the Day’s events, please visit:
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/news_internationalday2008.html
DAKO 1121: Beginning Dakota I
Section 002
09/02/2008 - 12/10/2008
M,Tu,W,Th 6:00 P.M. - 7:15 P.M.
5 credits
Instructor: TBA
This class will be be an excellent opportunity for community members who
are not able to take courses during the workday, and to apply the Dakota
Iapi Continuing Education Student Scholarship!
Remember, both Dakota and Ojibwe language scholarships are due on
Friday, August 15th, so don’t forget to apply!
Miguel Vargas
Community Outreach Coordinator
American Indian Studies Department
19 Scott Hall
72 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-626-5759
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Inipi wed night, bring a dish to pass.
Wow the Pow Wow is just 4 days away.
We still need help at the Pow Wow.