Join Raven honoring our brother Leonard Peliter.
…BREAKING NEWS…
LEONARD PELTIER PAROLE HEARING SET JULY 27, 2009
Click Here For Our Call To Action
Friends of Peltier
Time to set him free… Because it’s the RIGHT thing to do.
www.FreePeltierNow.org
Join Raven with his guest Kathrine Bourgault on KAOS 89.3 FM from 5-6pm.
Kathrine is a descendant of the Skokomish Tribe in Washington State. Kathrine has been working with the Washington State Native American Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault - WomenSpirit Coalition for nearly a year providing administrative support and technical assistance to all tribes of Washington. Kathrine graduated from Eastern Washington University with a Bachelor’s degree in Government & Law in 2004 and has previously worked with tribal councils and legal departments. She is a member of the Washington State Advisory Committee on Violence Against Native Women and is very involved in promoting Native Women’s Leadership and Community Organizing trainings to assist fellow survivors in creating awareness of domestic and sexual violence in tribal communities.
Join Raven and his Guest Erika T. Wurth talk about her poetry and her influences.
Erika T. Wurth is a mixed-blood American Indian (Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee) poet & fiction writer. Her book, Indian Trains was published by the University of New Mexico’s West End Press. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Raven Chronicles, Fiction, Pembroke, Cedar Hill Review, AMCRJ, SAIL, Ellipsis, Boulevard, 5AM, Borderlands, Global City Review, Bryant Literary Review, Stand and Red Ink. She lives in Macomb, Illinois where she teaches Creative writing at Western Illinois University. Recently, she was a visiting writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Tune in next bones with Raven Redbone talk about how we can help recovery of the Fires in Chumash Country.
Friends and Relatives,
Santa Barbara area in southern California is burning - that is Chumash Country.
Today I spoke with a project representative from the Barbareno Chumash Council (an SGF Affiliate project in Santa Barbara) and already some of their people’s homes have burned and with it, cultural items, and regalia and so much that is being rebuilt for their people. This afternoon the fire is in a sacred painted cave area where the ancestors once were, leaving messages for the future generations.
It’s a devastating fire for the Chumash homelands.
The Chumash are not asking us to do this… the SGF Affiliate project is not asking Seventh Generation Fund to do this.
But we must ask.
Seventh Generation Fund knows we must take action and bring this issue to your immediate attention. And, to ask for your help.
Please consider a donation at this time of dire need and critical concern for our brothers and sisters in Chumash Country.
Your donation will be directed to the Barbareno Chumash Council and its members who have lost so much at this challenging time.
These brothers and sisters are regalia makers, canoe carvers, and storytellers, and their homelands are burning.
To donate: Go to the Seventh Generation Fund Facebook Cause Page, instructions are there. All donations are tax-deductible and will be directed to support the Chumash project.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
Tia Oros Peters
Executive Director
Seventh Generation Fund
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Tune in when Raven speaks with Tamara Demetro, about discrimination against minorities, tribal Rromani and their indigenous communities.
Tamara Demetro is a sixth generation American tribal Rromani; Karaldash Tem (name of Nation) Ministi, Vista (name of tribe) . She was born and trained in the traditional healing arts of the Authentic Rromani spiritual droma ( journy or road) and is a Dobodni (oracle reader), Patragria (Herbalist) and Chovihana (Shamanic life time student).
She has been conducting the traditional healing arts services of her tribes for people from all walks of life, all of her life as a way of life throughout North America, South Africa and Canada; since the age of eight years of age. She has consulted for the Evergreen college on the History of the Rromani race and has been an informal enviormental and human rights activist throughout her time since leaving in part her private “Kumpania” (community) of the American Rroma and intergrating into the alternative Native and various holistic minded communities of North America; nearly twenty two years ago. Tamara was married for nine years raising her young children in an holistic enviorment and community while in her private practice conducting her traditional services. A portion of her year was dedicated to traveling with various Native 1st Indigenous and Rainbow tribe families, as activist, vocalist, musican and medicine healers, at tribal counsel and peace gatherings throughout the Northwest and West Coast during the eighties and ninties. Tamara is a Native speaker and is a National interpreter of the Vlach standard International dialect and was the first Native speaker of her dialect in the last ten years conducting interpretation for the National Immigrations and Homeland Security Offices; to assist credible assylum seekers who are facing dire persecution in Europe have fair hearings on acceptance into the United States of America. Tamara has been raising her three daughters and continuing expansion, healing and evolution in her life’s work and healing while conducting activist work with International Arthor and PH.D Ian Hanacock, Leading Proffesor, Rromani Human Rights activist and director of the Rromani archives and documentation center at the Texas University of Austin. Two of her daughters are now 1st generation Olympia college students and her third and youngest daughter is in her last year of high school. They are the first generation college students in her direct linage and she has been a proud Olympian citizen and community member for the last ten years.
Grandson Aiden “Mardko” Parks, he is two years old. He’s her guy and partners in peace and lov
Friends and Relatives,
Santa Barbara area in southern California is burning - that is Chumash Country.
Today I spoke with a project representative from the Barbareno Chumash Council (an SGF Affiliate project in Santa Barbara) and already some of their people’s homes have burned, and the fire is in a sacred painted cave area where the ancestors once were.
It’s a devastating fire for the Chumash homelands.
The Chumash are not asking us to do this… the SGF Affiliate project is not asking Seventh Generation Fund to do this.
But we must.
Seventh Generation Fund knows we must take action and bring this issue to your immediate attention. And, to ask for your help.
Please consider a donation at this time of dire need and critical concern for our brothers and sisters in Chumash Country.
Your donation will be directed to the Barbareno Chumash Council and its members who have lost so much at this challenging time.
These brothers and sisters are regalia makers, canoe carvers, and storytellers, and their homelands are burning.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
Tia Oros Peters
Executive Director
Seventh Generation Fund
Tune in when Raven speaks with Alex White Plume.
Alex White Plume, a Lakota Sioux living on the reservation decided to grow industrial hemp as a means of making money for his family and creating housing on the reservation (by making “hempcrete”, a concrete product that is lighter and stronger than normal concrete and several other materials). Keep in mind, this is industrial hemp, and not marijuana. You cannot get high from it because it has no THC and it’s legal to possess the dried and processed form. Growing hemp, however, is still illegal, and the Federal Government had other plans in store for Alex White Plume.
Next on “Make no bones about it”, April 26, 2009 at 5pm. The Reservation Boarding School System was a war in disguise. It was a war between the United States government and the children of the First People of this land. Its intention was that of any war, elimination of the enemy. The reason this war is difficult to recognize is because it was covered by the attractive patina of a concept called “Manifest Destiny.” Manifest Destiny was a philosophy by which the white european invader imagined themselves as having a divine right to take possession of all land and its fruits.
Join Raven and his guests Kyle Taylor Lucas, Erin Genia, Lonny Peddycord and Georgina Lighting discuss the horrors of boarding schools.
Children were kidnapped and taken long distances from their communities in order to attend school. Once there, they were held captive, isolated from their families of origin, and forcibly stripped of their language, religion, traditions and culture. Many Native children grew up with little knowledge of their original culture. Being forced to live with no culture resulted in high suicide rates, difficulties with parenting, drug and alcohol problems, family abuse.
“Then there are testimonies of hundreds of former students whose list of abuses includes kidnapping, sexual abuse, beatings, needles pushed through tongues as punishment for speaking Indigenous languages, forced wearing of soiled underwear on the head or wet bed sheets on the body, faces rubbed in human excrement, forced eating of rotten and/or maggot infested food, being stripped naked and ridiculed in front of other students, forced to stand upright for several hours — on two feet and sometimes one — until collapsing, immersion in ice water, hair ripped from heads, use of students in eugenics and medical experiments, bondage and confinement in closets without food or water, application of electric shocks, forced to sleep outside or to walk barefoot in winter, forced labor and on and on.”
(The Healing Update Has Begun, from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, May 2002)
Help Needed Now
The Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), is saturating the legislature with their message, and it’s NOT GOOD NEWS FOR TRIBES….CCA is a national organization that, in the Northwest, has become, in effect, an anti-tribal entity that has effectively seized control of the Fish and Wildlife Commission that drives the State Department of Fish and Wildlife…..again the CCA is deluging the legislature with calls and visits to lobby what amounts to an anti-tribal cause.
Here’s what YOU CAN DO NOW: The striker version of SHB 1778 includes both 5127 and a “two pole” warm water fishing fee on recreational fishers which will plug the gaps left by legislative cuts in enhancement. It needs to pass. If it does, the Fish and Wildlife Commission membership will be cleared out in August, the Governor will get the appointment power over the Director of the agency and some level of accountability will be restored–rather than have the one-special interest-driven state commission that currently exists, which is highly critical of tribes and does all it can to pull the rug out from under our management efforts. Right now, the striker version of SHB 1778 has passed the Senate Natural Resources Committee AND the Senate Ways & Means Committee and is in Senate Rules. The bill is certainly not perfect—it’s only 60% and not 100% of what we would hope for, but that’s better than what we have right now ……(e.g., the Commission retains rulemaking authority, it provides 3 candidates for Director to the Governor, etc.)….but it’s a delicate situation that is, according to Sen. Jacobsen, best not to mess with (with attempted amendments)….. Timing is everything…..we need support and we need it NOW, in the form of letters, calls, visits, to all Senators possible…..I’ve attached a sample letter for your convenience. All help….the more the better….will be greatly appreciated. If you need help sending a letter to all senators, you can send through me, or get their addresses at www.leg.wa.gov.
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Dear Senator:
Your support for the striker version of SHB 1778, in its entirety, is critically important to the future of natural resources, the environment and positive state/tribal relations and to future good will among the greater citizenry of this state. Step forward and support this bill TODAY. We know you are receiving many contacts from an organization known as CCA. We ask you to beware of the fact that this national special interest and highly politicized organization represents one interest and one interest only. We represent a far broader interest—the people you were elected to represent.
It is unfortunate that the Fish and Wildlife Commission in this state has made the mistake of inaccurately micro-managing fish and wildlife management, and allowed CCA to drive its agenda as fully as it has. CCA holds itself up as the super conservationist organization—at the expense of a state/tribal co-management relationship that is not only the law—it’s also a far, far better approach to effective ecosystem management. The leadership of the Fish and Wildlife Commission, under the spell of CCA, has inaccurately criticized tribal enforcement and conservation, when the truth is that tribes are leading the way in this state in both of these efforts. As a team, the state and the tribes, working with environmental organizations and citizens of all ethnic and business backgrounds, ARE the future of fish and wildlife protection and recovery.
We ask you to see through the guise of old-time cronyism and think of the great importance of fish and wildlife to our economy, culture and future. Support the striker version of SHB 1778.
Thank you.
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