From LMITTEN@vms.cis.pitt.edu Fri Oct 15 06:25:51 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA19320 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:25:47 -0700 Received: from myriad.cis.pitt.edu (myriad.cis.pitt.edu [136.142.186.16]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id GAA29550; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:25:46 -0700 Received: from vms.cis.pitt.edu by vms.cis.pitt.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #22606) id <01JH5PU8UK1G93BAUM@vms.cis.pitt.edu>; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:25:32 EDT Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:25:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "LISA A. MITTEN" Subject: Help needed for the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)! To: native-l@gnosys.svle.ma.us, anthro-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, nn-academics@bioc02.v19.uthscsa.edu, nat-edu@gnosys.svle.ma.us, indians_online-l@listserv.arizona.edu, nat-film@maelstrom.stjohns.edu, Message-id: <01JH5PU8UK1I93BAUM@vms.cis.pitt.edu> X-Envelope-to: indknow@u.washington.edu, sueellen@u.washington.edu, wthomas@u.washington.edu X-VMS-To: @INDBKS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII From: IN%"cleonard@iaiancad.org" "Courtney Leonard" 14-OCT-1999 23:02:50.58 To: IN%"LMITTEN@vms.cis.pitt.edu" "LISA A. MITTEN", IN%"UAIDV@aol.com" CC: Lisa, It was great hearing from you, but I was wondering if I could ask your help. Recently the House, specifically Chairman Ralph Regula, passed a bill to cut our school's funding and now the student body, faculty and staff are sending emails and making phonecalls to congressman, senators, and the president to stop the bill from going into effect. If you could write or send this message out to people you know I would greatly appreciate it. The President's email address is President@whitehouse.gov I recently wrote Clinton via email. This is the letter I wrote: Subject: From one nation to another, I ask your help. President Clinton, I am a member of the Shinnecock nation of Long Island, New York and am currently attending the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM. IAIA is federally chartered by congress in partial fulfillment of treaty and trust obligations and is dedicated to the study, creative application, preservation and care of Indian Arts and Culture. I have traveled all over the world and in my nineteen years of life, I have found that this institute of higher learning is truly one of a kind. I am aware of your vision to help steer the nation's children "from the playground to the college classroom" and your recent visit to the Pine Ridge reservation. Many Native American students have survived through the playgrounds of their reservations and are now attending IAIA. Congress recently cut our funding, threatening the continuation of our education. If you are true to your vision, please help us to preserve our culture and urge congress to continue funding an Institute of First Nations Peoples which has stood strong for over thirty years. Tabutni, Courtney M. Leonard Shinnecock I wrote from my heart which is what I encourage the others to do. If you could forward this email to anyone, I would greatly appreciate it. .