UPDATE DEC 16, 2000
Vieques deal is near collapse
By DALE EISMAN
© 2000, The Virginian-Pilot
WASHINGTON -- An aid-for-training deal designed to
let the Navy retain use of its disputed bombing range on Vieques Island
all but collapsed Thursday, as Puerto Rico's incoming governor signaled
her determination to press President-elect George W. Bush to close the
facility...
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Invitation from Dialogue Between Nations
- American Declaration
INVITATION
Journey to the Summit:
Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples
You are cordially invited to participate in an online
forum on the
Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples,
hosted by Dialogue Between Nations/Dialogo Entre Naciones,
in English and Spanish:
WEB SITE:
Invitation
from Dialogue Between Nations
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Cash Cows, The giveaway of the West
San Jose Mercury news -
By many measures, the American West at the end of the
20th century is more environmentally healthy than a generation ago. But
on millions of acres of public land, one practice still perpetuates environmental
damage that began in the Wild West 150 years ago -- cattle grazing.
Propped up by more than $100 million last year in
taxpayer subsidies,
ranchers leasing national forests and range managed
by the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management have allowed millions of
cattle to grind
down native grasses and trample streams, the lifeblood
of the West.
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PELTIER COVERAGE
Milwaukee Tribune
FBI agents march to oppose clemency for Peltier
Activist was wanted in Milwaukee
By RICK BARRETT
"As hundreds of FBI agents Friday lobbied President
Clinton not to grant clemency to an American Indian activist convicted
of slaying two of their own, a former Milwaukee police officer said he
has been racked with guilt for not killing the man in 1972 when he had
the chance....
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RELATED INFORMATION
Charges dismissed as Peltier was "set up" by
officer bragging he was going to "get a big one" for the FBI..READ
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COINTELPRO
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CNN
COVERAGE WITH LIVE VIDEO FBI protest
Letter
from Hyde and 21 Member of US Re: Peltier Clemency,
FBI Protest March DEC 15
ABCNEWS
Hundreds to Oppose Clemency for Convicted Killer Leonard
Peltier
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RESPONSE
FROM LPDC
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Cop found not guilty of choking
By LEE WILLIAMS
Argus Leader
published: 12/16/00
LAKE ANDES -- The white police officer accused of choking
a 12-year-old American Indian boy was found not guilty Friday.
An all-white jury of seven men and five womendeliberated
for 30 minutes, before acquitting Lake Andes police officer Michael Atwood
of simple assault.
Witnesses had said he choked Ben Cournoyer in a city
park on July 4....
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RELATED ARTICLES....
'He grabbed me around neck'
By LEE WILLIAMS
Argus Leader
ORIGINAL
STORY...
Meeks says she's still waiting for study on race relations
Rapid
City Journal
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Human Rights Commission
Report
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Misreading the Bones
DISCOVERING
ARCHAEOLOGY
A Brutal Conquistador was Innocent of a Georgia Slaughter
European colonists cut a bloody swath through the New
World, and certainly Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto was among the
most brutal as he marched 1,000 men from Florida to Oklahoma in the sixteenth
century. Yet the infamous gold hunter seems to have
gotten a bad rap on one alleged massacre.
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WRITING UNWRITTEN HISTORY
An archaeologist and American Indian walks the tightrope
of a double life.
BY JOE WATKINS
"Into each life, it is said, some rain must fall,
some people have bad
horoscopes, others take tips on the stock market.
But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians
have anthropologists." --Vine Deloria, Jr.
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GROUP TARGETING WHITE CLAY SALES:
Group targeting Whiteclay beer sales
BY JOE DUGGAN
Lincoln Journal Star
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related web sites and articles:
CAMP
JUSTICE
[NativeNews]
White
Clay Protestor Court Arguments Due Today, 30 Sep 2000
WHITE CLAY: Protests
fail to halt beer sales in village, 10 Aug 1999
Last
Call on Pine Ridge, 6 Aug 1999
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Cuba marks Human rights day with mass detentions and
sentences for dissidents
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Past and current
Amnesty news services
DISCUSSION ON THE INDIGENOUS RIGHTS WORKING GROUP GENEVA
UPDATES
Geneva:
Self-determination-the arguments
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SEASON GIFTING...
It is that time of year again when we begin to think
of winter cold and those in need. Helping hands list...
HEATING FUND
Emergency heating funds....the weather has turned
sharply colder and it appears that it will be a much colder winter than
the last few we have experienced creating an incredible hardship for many.
Money orders sent to the Grass Roots Oglala Lakota
Oyate will be distributed (or paid on account) for those in need of heating
assistance. In effect we will be creating a "voucher" system.
Your donation may be of any amount and several put together to meet minimums
necessary for orders.
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