From: "Rodney Coates" To: "revs@csf.colorado.edu"@rose.muohio.edu, " "@csf.Colorado.EDU Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 12:07:22 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Fwd: Stop Custer Monument at Washita (FWD) = i forward this from another lst because of its relevance...rodney c.. =================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Received: from SpoolDir by CASSERVER1 (Mercury 1.21); 6 Apr 96 01:10:49 -5 >Return-path: >Received: from csf.Colorado.EDU by casmail.muohio.edu (Mercury 1.21); > 6 Apr 96 01:10:41 -5 >Received: from host (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU >Received: from genesee.freenet.org (genesee.freenet.org [192.138.137.113]) by ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 09:49:08 -0700 >Received: by genesee.freenet.org (SMI-8.6/2.25) >Message-Id: >Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:48:59 -0500 (EST) >Reply-To: wfarrell@genesee.freenet.org >Sender: owner-psn@csf.colorado.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: "William J. Farrell" >To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK >Subject: Stop Custer Monument at Washita (FWD) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >X-To: PSN-CAFE@csf.colorado.edu >X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN > This is from the NATIVE_L list. My wife's uncle remarded that, building a monument ot Custer at Washita was like building a monument to McVey in Oklahoma City. Bill Farrell Univ. of Michigan-Flint ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 14:15:59 -0800 From: Joseph Thompson Subject: Stop Custer Monument at Washita (FWD) !!!ALERT!!! Help Us Stop the Monument to Custer at Washita! Dear Friends, An e-mail campaign is now under way. Please lend your support to help: STOP THE MONUMENT TO CUSTER AT WASHITA On November 27, 1868, General Custer led his army on a pre-dawn raid on a peaceful Cheyenne encampment on the Whasita which resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Cheyenne women, children and men. Governor Frank Keating and U. S. Representative Frank Lucas initiated a meeting of a western Oklahoma citizens group to discuss how to spend $250,000 which has been set aside in the Fiscal Year 1997 Oklahoma budget for the Washita Historic Battlefield. Because of the special significance of the Washita site to the Cheyenne Tribe, Tribal officials sought to be included in the meeting. After much stonewalling by the Oklahoma politicians, the Tribe was finally informed that they would not be invited to the meeting. The Elk City newspaper subsequently reported on this meeting, stating that the Oklahoma citizens group wanted to declare the Washita site as a Custer National Battlefield Site. It was discussed that George Custer would be the drawing card, not the Indians slain, and the monument should be in his name. Please forward this entire message far and wide. Please e-mail the following message to Oklahoma Governor Keating and to U. S. Senator Don Nickles. (Note: Rep. Lucas' has no public e-mail address) Please include a Cc to: cheyarap@mind.net Copy and Paste the Following --------------------------------------------------------------- To: Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating To: U. S. Senator Don Nickles To: U. S. Rep. Frank Lucas Dear Sirs, The proposed construction of a monument to General George A. Custer at the Washita Historic Site is a desecration of this solemn place and an affront to the entire Native American community. A state which takes pride in proclaiming itself "Native America" has the power to lead the way to a national reconciliation with the Native American community. This proposed action will only serve to further the divisions. Please rescind this action, immediately and publicly. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ End Copy and Paste HOW TO REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT To e-mail this letter of support to Keating and Lucas, please follow these steps: 1.) Type your name into the space provided in the above letter of support. 2.) "Copy" and "paste" this letter of support into your e-mail program as a "new message" (Please copy only the material between the dotted lines above. ) 3.) Add any additional words of support or leave as is. 4.) Write in the subject "Stop Custer Monument at Washita" 5.) Write in Governor Keating's e-mail address which is: Frank.A.Keating@oklaosf.state.ok.us 6.) Write in U. S. Senator Nickles' e-mail address which is: nickles@rpc.senate.gov 7.) Please include the following e-mail address as a "Cc". This will help us gauge the volume of support letters going out. cheyarap@mind.net 7.) "Send" the message. Thank you in advance for supporting this important cause. Sincerely, Joseph Thompson thompson@mind.net ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu