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Non-natives evicted from Mohawk reserve
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 09:00 AM
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by INGRID PERITZ
<snip>The controversy has stirred up fundamental issues: Should bloodlines alone determine native membership? How do first nations preserve their identity and culture? The Kahnawake council argues that members on its reserve, only 15 minutes from downtown Montreal on a traffic-free day, are under constant pressure of assimilation. The council's rules are legal since Canadian law gives Indian bands the power to determine membership codes. The Kahnawake council periodically proceeds with evictions from its territory.
"All we have left is 13,000 acres [of land]. When there's a problem, we can't go anywhere else," said Joe Delaronde, a spokesman for the Mohawk council. "Everyone is welcome here. It's just that at the end of the day, we're saying, 'Go back home [if you're non-native]. You don't live here.' It has nothing to do with racism."
Read the complete article: Globe and Mail
Note: ...the divide and conquer strategy, another colonial legacy!
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Regulating Native Practices
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 11:30 AM
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by Jason Pitzl-Waters
While the final fate of New Age guru James Arthur Ray, who led a “sweat lodge” ceremony that ended up killing three people, remains an open question, others are working to put Ray, and others like him, out of business. Arizona state Sen. Albert Hale, a former president of the Navajo Nation, is sponsoring a bill that would allow the state to regulate any for-pay activity that claims to be a “traditional and authentic Native American practice.”
The proposed bill has the support of current Navajo Nation President, Joe Shirley, Jr., and if passed, would not apply to practices held on tribal lands. The “nuances” concerning free events that purport to be Native practices, or Native-like activities that don’t claim to be Native have yet to be worked out. Hale pointed out that this bill targets more how an event is advertised than how it is actually practiced. There hasn’t been too much commentary on the proposed bill yet, but the Don’t Pay to Pray blog seems all for it.
Read the complete article: Wild Hunt
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School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 09:00 AM
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 While environmental groups and governmental policies are aiming at reducing deforestation and development in the Amazon rainforest to help preserve the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, traditional indigenous cultures in the region are being rescued from extinction as well. For native tribes of the Northwest Amazon, shamans have long played an important role in daily life, acting as spiritual leaders and medicinal healers. Throughout the twentieth century, shamans faced such intense persecution from Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries that some feared their ancient wisdom would be lost to the ages, but a new school in the Amazon is working to make sure that doesn't happen.
The school, called Malikai Depan, located in the village of Cachoeira Uapui in the northwest of Amazonas state of Brazil, was founded by the children of a renowned shaman with the support of anthropologist Robin Wright. According to a report in Socioambiental, the school is the result of years of research sponsored by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies in California, which interested in supporting the art and practice of traditional shamanism.
Read the complete article: Treehugger News
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Tribute to a compassionate cavalryman underscores memorial events
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Posted by: Makarios on Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 06:00 AM
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By Carol Berry
Frontier history endures in present-day Native Colorado, where bloodshed on the state’s southeastern plains is something elders today can recall their grandparents telling them about – Sand Creek, the peace camp where at least 160 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, mostly women, children and old men, were killed by the Colorado Cavalry.
Yet in 2009, 145 years later, the 11th Annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run/Walk, headed by a Cheyenne spiritual advisor and two Cheyenne men descended from traditional societies, invited gratitude for continuity, and, unexpectedly, remembrance of a cavalryman’s bravery that aided the survival of present-day tribal members.
The choice this year to honor a white cavalry officer who disobeyed shoot-to-kill orders at Sand Creek was approved by Lee Lone Bear, a spiritual advisor who initiated the Healing Run, and co-chairs Bill Tall Bull, Cheyenne, Dog Soldier Society descendant, and Otto Braided Hair, Northern Cheyenne, a headman of the Crazy Dog Society, both traditional societies that included guarding the camp among their functions.
Read the complete article: Indian Country Today
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Forcibly adopted American Indians torn between cultures
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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By Monte Whaley
Even in third grade, Susan Devan Harness knew she didn't belong in the white world. She already was being called "squaw girl" by classmates. Harness drew suspicious stares and was followed by employees every time she entered a store in the Montana town where she was raised. But it wasn't until she was 14 that she realized how estranged she was from the dominant culture she had been pushed into. Harness was among the 395 or so American Indian children forcibly adopted into white families as part of a national social experiment conducted from 1958 through 1967.
Harness, now a Colorado State University cultural anthropologist, has written a book about the experiences of those swept up in the Indian Adoption Project. She found that like her, many of the adopted children were ostracized and belittled in both white and American Indian communities. Harness, now 50, recalls being a teenager sitting on her front porch, listening to radio reports of the rising clamor caused by the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s. "I heard my dad say, 'What are those drunken war whoops up to now?' " Harness said.
Read the complete article: Denver Post
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No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant
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Posted by: Makarios on Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 06:00 PM
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By Johnny P. Flynn
Forty years ago, Indian militants, as they were then named, occupied the island of Alcatraz. In their memory, our writer reflects on both the bloody history of the first Thanksgiving, and the remarkable, enduring power of tribal tradition to create spiritual sustenance in the modern world.
I am an Indian militant. It is a name I wear with some ambivalence—like “Indian”—not my choice, but the alternatives for the sake of political correctness do not have the same power or panache.
This year, while most Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, we will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indian militants—around the time the term was coined. I was too young at the time, but supported those making the ironic statement about the quality of our own lands “given” to our ancestors, and the broken promise that any federal lands not in use will revert back to the Indians.
Read the complete article: Religion Dispatches
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Lakota Nation files lawsuit against parties in sweat lodge incident
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Posted by: Makarios on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 06:00 AM
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By Nina Rehfeld
In the aftermath of the tragedy at Angel Valley Retreat Center, where an incompetently conducted “sweat lodge” held by Californian self-help guru James Arthur Ray killed three participants, political steps are being taken by several native people across the United States. While local Indians from Arizona are forming a Council for Indigenous Traditional Healing to reclaim native ceremonies, the Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota has filed a lawsuit against the United States, the state of Arizona, James Arthur Ray and the Angel Valley Retreat Center.
Ray had conducted a five-day “Spiritual Warrior” seminar at Angel Valley on the first weekend of October, during which his more than sixty participants had been fasting and wandering in the desert. He then assembled them in an incompetently constructed “sweat lodge” that, according to eye witnesses, was turned into a two-hour endurance competition and left three people dead and nineteen injured.
The Lakota Nation considers its sweat lodge ceremony, the Oinikaga, one of the seven sacred rites of the Lakota. “This is a way of life, not a religion”, said Sam Longblackcat, who introduced the lawsuit to the public at a press conference in Phoenix on November 2nd.
Read the complete article: Sedona Biz
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Medicine Wheel Spirituality
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Friday, October 16, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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by Phyllis Doyle Burns
One who is adept in the wisdom of sacred rituals cannot help but see the profound spirituality connected with the Medicine Wheel. The Medicine Wheel is a teaching tool for seeking and achieving spiritual growth.
Native Americans hold the Medicine Wheel highly sacred and refer to it as the Circle of Life or Sacred Hoop. It does not denote healing, but rather spiritual significance and hallowed ground where sacred rituals are performed and is symbolic of the never-ending cycle of life. The circle is seen within all life, as a cycle or actual shapes. Mother Earth, celestial bodies, the journey of Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon, the Four Winds which travel to all directions, in the seasons which repeat. It is seen in Nature and humanity in the birth and death cycle and all cycles within Creation.
The Medicine Wheel symbolizes this Circle of Life with a cross within the circle. The cross represents the Four Sacred Directions and their powers: East, South, West, and North. These directions in turn symbolize the four stages of life, and are designated with the sacred colors of yellow, red, black and white, which is symbolic of all races and the Four Elements.
Read the complete article: Bella
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