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From: Patricia Gunter-Hernandez <>
Subject: [GRANNYS-NA-PANTRY] Senator Daschle
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:19:00 -0700 (PDT)

ubject: Indians gathering for 'Treaty Encampments'


Hau,
In a letter to Senator Daschle [enclosed, forwarded], we, the Lakota
elders of the Bear Butte Council {1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty signatories},
invite you to our Treaty Camp on August 20-25 at Storm mountain in the
sacred Black hills.
signed,
Tony Black Feather
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council
PO Box 51
Pine Ridge, SD 57770
(secretary David Seals, Black Hills Earth First!)

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Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 16:13:49 -0400
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Subject: Tom Daschle's unmitigated Mitigation Act


press release/letter to Sen. Daschle
Analysis & Commentary
by David Seals
c/o Ace Gallagher, Sen. Daschle's chief of staff
Rapid City
Dear Tom:


When Lakota elder Johnson Holy Rock got up to talk about it, at last
week's 'Emergency Strategy meeting' in Rapid City, sponsored by an
outraged coalition of the Standing Rock and Rosebud Sioux Tribes and
Defenders of the Black Hills, he said, "We're either gonna wear eagle
feathers and defend our Treaty Rights, or we're gonna wear chicken
feathers!"


How right he was. When you attached a rider on the 1999 Water Resources
Development Act, commonly called the Mitigation Act, you unleashed a lot
of question marks among Native and environmental and animal rights
groups. But when you slipped another rider into the Emergency
Appropriations Act last year, a real Western storm blew in. Did you even
realize your 2nd Rider opened the beautiful {and sacred, to many of us}
Norbeck Wildlife Preserve, the Sand Creek Roadless Area, and Beaver
Park, to wholesale logging?


Do you really think you can get away with this prohibition of any
administrative or legal appeals of the actions of the Forest Service? Or
any actions of State agencies like Custer State Park, for that matter?
This unmitigated action on your part has united so many groups in so
many ways you can't even imagine.


Buffalo Rights groups like my own Buffalo Workshop are now working with
the Tribes and the National Forest Protection Alliance, Native
Ecosystems Council, and anti-war groups like ANSWER and Antiwar.com to
oppose this basic land grab. Arts groups are joining us - such as the
REwind Video Festival a few weeks ago - , as it becomes clear the Black
Hills National Forest is the most industrialized and endangered forest
in the country.


We're meeting again next week in Standing Rock, on August 8, with all
the Tribal Chairmen this time, covering not only the deplorable assault
on primary Native Water Rights, but also Treaty Rights as the primary
strategy - and Law! - to stop this criminal march. Governor Rounds
announced a meeting on the Missouri River issue with other State
Governors, but completely ignored Tribal priority. Tribes were not
invited. Tribes are not included.


Buffalo are being slaughtered all over South Dakota, with no spiritual
permission and prior claim, as also declared in the Treaty. We're
organizing guerrilla encampments in Custer State Park and Wind Cave
National Park, Sand Creek, Standing Rock. Oglala Sioux Tribe chairman
John Steele is giving us the 1200 acres OST acquired in Hell's Canyon
for a traditional headquarters, and from there we are going to be
wearing eagle feathers, regardless of our skin color or ethnicity, and
not chicken feathers.


Organizing meetings are going on every week now, with actions planned
for the August 15-17 gatherings, Treaty Council summit at Storm Mountain
August 23-25, protests at the Custer Park Roundup Sept. 27-29, rallies
in support of Annie Mae Aquash's murder trial beginning September 30,
and on through to the illegal auction of buffalo at the glorified zoo-slaughterhouse
called Custer State Park in November.


Also in november there will be strong protests of the Bear Butte court
case, about a proposed shooting range 4 miles away from this most sacred
of Mountains. Elder Dave Bald Eagle called it "the Cathedral of the
Plains." Senator Campbell held hearings about it in June, a '5-mile
buffer zone' around Mato Paha being part of the discussion, to clear out
all violators.
A Sacred Sites conference will also be held in coordination with the
court dates, in which all of the Black Hills will be covered - violated
gravesites, other sacred sites like Inyan Kara where the Forest Service
and BLM {Bureau of Logging and Mining}are logging and harvesting holy
places - and many people are coming here from all over the world.


In conclusion, elders like Johnson Holy Rock and Oliver Red Cloud asked,
"What is our strategy?" It is to take over these 7 States illegally
formed within the 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty, and return them, no less, to
their rightful owners - the Spirits of our Ancestors, the Buffalo, and
our children. You and your amerikan countrymen have abrogated those
rights with your illegal and unethical actions. The Buffalo do not love
you. God does not bless Amerika.
Sincerely,

Principal People, A-Ni-Yv-Wi-Ya
Visit my home page at:
http://www.geocities.com/tsalagildy/mypage.html

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