From nativeair@lakhota.com Thu Oct 22 23:39:52 1998 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA22912 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:39:51 -0700 Received: from www.instantweb.com (IDENT:root@www.instantweb.com [207.240.104.21]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id XAA25139 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:39:51 -0700 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.instantweb.com id WAA12299 for native_air@hotmail.com; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:31:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:31:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199810230531.WAA12299@www.instantweb.com> X-Authentication-Warning: www.instantweb.com: nobody set sender to nativeair@lakhota.com using -f From: "Native AIR" To: "Native AIR Subscriber" Subject: Native AIR - Thursday, October 22, 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Standard Issue 2 Native AIR Thursday, October 22, 1998 "Your Voice is Heard in the Native American Internet Report" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In this Issue: NCAI 55th Annual Session >>ARTICLE by "Rudy" a Native AIR reader WOODLAND NATIONS CONFERENCE INDIAN STORYTELLERS LAKOTA NAME TRANSLATOR >From Editor Clara -- "Goodbye Rez Cars?" NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC NOVEMBER POW-WOW TRIBAL DATA RESOURCES WYOMING EAGLES NATIVE ROLE MODEL ----------------------------------------------------- October 18-23, 1998 National Congress of American Indians NCAI 55th Annual Session Over 2,500 tribal leaders and representatives are expected to be in attendance from across the nation. Pray that good comes from this session! ------------------------------------------------- Feature Article by "Rudy" of Standing Rock Reservation ------------------------------------------------- RESERVATION HERITAGE?: Experience the romance of waking up on a frosty winter morning - to the smell of your own kerosene heater running out of fuel. The adventure of trying to buy more kerosene on a weekend. Later, mingle with hundreds of Lakota while you wait in line for commodities at the main distribution center. Enjoy the wit and humor of tourists who stare at you while driving through your reservation. Find hundreds of items you thought companies stopped making years ago while looking around one of the charity centers. Learn the fascinating history of nonNative people while visiting a reservation public school. Explore nearby cities and marvel at the jobs and amenities available for all the other people in the state. Sorry about the satire, but I wanted to make a point. Regularly, I hear Natives and nonNatives alike speak of the reservation with great affection. I've heard all ages of Indians apologize for having never lived on a reservation. And, nonNatives speak of the reservation as if it represents the very essence of "Indian-ness." People wake up! Reservations do NOT represent American Indian culture! Never have and never will. Reservations were and still are, forced upon us..... EDITOR's NOTE: This is what "Native AIR" is all about. Follow the URL to read the rest of the story.... http://www.lakhota.com/nativeair Comment freely on the discussion board (postings with personal attacks or offensive language will be removed). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WOODLAND NATIONS CONFERENCE: On November 5, 6, 7, 1998, the Prophetstown Council for Preservation of Great Lakes Native American Culture, a cultural consortium of 21 Woodland Nations, will hold its 9th annual Woodland Nations Conference at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, in Porter Indiana. The theme for the conference is "Fur Trade On southern Lake Michigan: 1634 to 1834." Speakers will explore the history of fur trade along Lake Michigan and in the states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Contact Nick Clark: nlclark@ dcwi.com -or- 765-423-4617 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALIFORNIA INDIAN STORYTELLING ASSOCIATION: Plan to attend the 4th Annual California Indian Storytelling Festival November 14 & 15, 1998. The festival is presented in cooperation with Ohlone College, Fremont, CA. Festival admission donations run $5. to $15. Contact: Lauren Teixeira: cistory@aol.com -or- 510-794-7253 (home), 408- 251-1445 (work) CHEROKEE STORY TELLER: Lloyd Arneach is an enrolled Eastern Band Cherokee of Cherokee, NC. Lloyd keeps the culture alive as a story teller. He includes stories from many different tribes beside his own. Contact Lloyd: larneach@dnet.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LAKOTA NAME TRANSLATOR: Tashna Whirlwind Horse is an enrolled Lakota who can work magic with her native language. She'll take the meaning of your current non-Native name and translate the meaning into Lakhota words. EXAMPLE: "Adam" in Hebrew means: "Red man of red earth." and in Lakhota that same meaning is worded, "Wicasa luta makha luta." http://www.lakhota.com/kadoka/translate/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Trika - Comanche "What do you call 500 Indians with insomnia? The Indian Napless 500." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Editor Clara -- "Goodbye Rez Cars?" A lot of you wrote asking me about the Auto Club that claims: "New Cars, nothing down, $100. a month." I called the New York Better Business Bureau and I was told there were no standing complaints on Five Star Auto Club. I then called the club president, Mike Sullivan. He was very patient with me as he explained the program. He said the Club acts as a member's agent, advisor, negotiator and facilitator and that they honestly do provide new vehicles of choice to club members. I asked what "Enlist 3 Members" was all about. He said, "Our leverage is based on numbers. We tell every member wanting a class one vehicle that they must enlist three new club members to qualify for that vehicle." Contact: Mike Sullivan's Monday night conference: (918) 222-7003 ext. 3839 http://www.lakhota.com/5star ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC: We are a Native Owned Recording Studio located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We invite you to visit our website listed below. If your computer has sound capacity you may hear exerts from several Lakota Leaders as well as exerts from albums we have produced. "Our legends tell us that all of the Universe was given a song and that each part of the Universe was given a piece of the song, but only in the Black Hills can the whole song be heard." - From the Lakhota Wolfsongs/Cherokee Productions http://www.enetis.net/~wolfsong ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVEMBER POW-WOW: The National Native American Veteran Associations and The Native American Retreat Haven are co-hosting the above referenced pow-wow to be held November 7th & 8th, 1998 at Upper Marlboro. For more info: contact Diane Bynum at 410-956-3156 for vendor space, etc. walkingbear pow-wow coordinator @ 301-261-7084 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WYOMING EAGLES: Please write to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior Bruce_Babbitt@ IOS.DOI.GOV and respectfully request the enforcement of the current law. THE ISSUE: Noisy snowmobiles inside Jackson's Canyon, west of Casper, Wyoming, are disrupting the winter roosting grounds of Eagles. There is a $ 1,000. fine if caught. THE PROBLEM: The law is not enforced and Eagles are loosing their winter grounds to snowmobilers. Contact Reginald D. Atkins: ratkins@trib.com >From Reginald Atkins: "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TRIBAL DATA RESOURCES: TDRonline of Redding, California, provides quality products and services to Tribes, Tribal service organizations, government agencies, and those who serve and assist them. TDR services increase Tribal self sufficiency and administrative capabilities in the times of reduced federal funding and increased competition. Contact: Rick Anderson, President: tdr@tdronline. com -or- (530)222-2964 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIVE ROLE MODEL: I am not Lakota. I am not in a US Federally recognized tribe. I am Enrolled 100% Qualla/Abenaki at the St. Francis Reserve in Odanak, Quebec, Canada. I am living in Allouez, Wisconsin, about 15 miles from the Oneida Reservation where I have many friends. I am about 1500 miles from my Tribal home. I'm over 70, retired, an Internet Service Provider, Green Bay Facilities Manager for EarthReach Communications, LLC, the Northeast Wisconsin Regional Internet Service Provider. I provide the links to the Chicago and Minneapolis Area Internet Service Providers as well as the Satellite feeds from the Middle East countries. I am in the process of upgrading to a Cobalt Raid System (multiple Pentium II CPUs, 90 GB HDD, 512 MB 6 ns SRAM) running S.U.S.E. Linux. I've been online continuously since Sept. 1991 with the present system which is running Linux 1.2.1. Other than that, I generally goof around! With love and respect, Wichi:tye Dr. Eugene Norman EDITOR's NOTE: Our young people need to be constantly reminded that success and culture do mix!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SHARE IN THE NEXT NATIVE AIR? Submit your December material before November 15th. We run on "Indian time" around here. Our intentions are to get this out once a month and sometimes we actually do. ;-) Your material will be considered for inclusion based on the relevancy of what our readers consider important to them. Clara Chase, Native Air editor editor@lakhota.com ___________________________________________________________ /\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\V/\ READERS: How exciting to read hundreds of grateful and delighted responses to the first issue of Native Air. A no-spam mailing that reaches Natives and Friends of Natives on the Internet. October's mailing will be seen by over 300 "actual subscribers!" 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