81. USFWS, Native American Native American Liaison office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. http://www.fws.gov/nativeamerican/

Native American Liaison Office of External Affairs Home Native American Policy Tribal Leaders Directory News for Tribes ... Contact Us /* PLVFOMenu script ID:PLVFOFGWLbZC */ Visit Regional Native American Liaison Website's What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. November is ~ Native American Month ~ One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for the "First Americans" and for three years they adopted such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian Association meeting in Lawrence, Kans., formally approved a plan concerning American Indian Day. It directed its president, Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to call upon the country to observe such a day. In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 "National American Indian Heritage Month." Throughout our history, American Indian and Alaska Native peoples have been an integral part of the American character. Tribal America has brought to this great country values and ideas that have become ingrained in the American spirit: the knowledge that humans can thrive and prosper without destroying the natural environment; the understanding that people from very different backgrounds, cultures, religions, and traditions can come together to build a great country; and the awareness that diversity can be a source of strength rather than division. Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential.

82. Native American, Culture, Healing, Programs, Indian, Spiritual, Health, Ceremony Offering sobriety, recovery, addictions prevention and wellness resources to the Native American community nationwide. Contains information about their projects, products and conferences. http://www.whitebison.org/

83. Luiseno Ethnozoology Article detailing the Luiseno use of plants and animals. http://daphne.palomar.edu/scrout/luisenoz.htm

LUISE O ETHNOZOOLOGY Home Fall Spring/Summer AIS ... Anthro The Luiseño are the most Southwestern group of Shoshonean people in the greater North American desert. The name Luiseño came from their having lived in close proximity to the Spanish mission San Luis Rey (1798-1834) which is located in northern San Diego County near Oceanside, California. Originally, the Luiseño may have been called Payomk o wi s hum people of the west ') by neighboring people and Ataxum ('The p eople') by themselves. The Luiseño occupied parts of north coastal San Diego County and Riverside County in pre-Hispanic (before 1769) Southern California. It is theorized that the Luiseño came into Southern California approximately 5,000-7,000 years ago during severe altithermals (drought periods) from the Basin areas east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Their Shoshonean neighbors like the Cupeño, Cahuilla, Serrano, Gabrieli n o /Tongva and Chemehuevi were part of this migration. This Southern California environment was and is a mild coastal desert environment dominated by the Coastal Sagebrush Scrub plant community that is often referred to as chaparral, a word derived from the Spanish "chaparro", scrub oak. The Luise o gathered and used a great deal of plants ; but also hunted and used animals in this environment. Traditional views saw the plants as a sacred link to the earth producing nutrients directly for herbivores and indirectly for carnivores. Meat of herbivores, like deer, was seen as sacred since they ate the plants.

84. Short History Of Big Mountain - Black Mesa The story of environmental racism in Arizona, where Hopi and Navajo people are to be forcibly relocated to a uranium dump in the year 2002. http://www.aics.org/BM/bm.html

http://www.aics.org/BM/bm.html Short History of Big Mountain - Black Mesa This page is intended to give a brief history of the Big Mountain, or Black Mesa area, Navajo-Hopi existence in this area, the murderous and genocidal practices of the BIA, and Peabody Coal, and of course - the U.S. Government. Links are provided for more extensive descriptions or histories if you wish more detail. http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/1942/index.html Hopi Reservation Created The BIA agent created a reservation centered around his offices, which were located near the Hopi villages on the mesas. The Dineh occupied the vast rangelands surrounding these mesas, so that 60% of the land within the reservation was occupied by Dineh. The land surrounding the 1882 reservation would later become part of the Navajo reservation. For the next 70 years, these arbitrary borders had little affect on the people, as both Hopi and Dineh continued their traditional way of life and peaceful relationship. A link to an execellent history page. Although the author of this page passed on in the summer of 1997, her page still tells the history of this area better than others. Paula Giese's work is timeless. The Coal Rush Begins The richest known deposit of coal in the U.S. was on the northern part of the 1882 reservation. The Hopi did not have a government that could sign leases, as the people practiced their traditional self-government; and their religion forbade coal mining. In 1951, John Boyden was

85. War Against Exploiters Of Lakota Spirituality Lakota stance against the theft and exploitation of traditional native spirituality and religion. http://www.aics.org/war.html

http://www.aics.org/war.html Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality First of all; We (meaning A.I.C.S.) did not write this declaration. It was written by Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Spiritual people. We do however support, and we encourage others to support, each and every word written here. Elders don't get around the internet like we do, so they are only partly aware of all the exploitation going on. Support those who wrote these words making it known to the exploiters - we know who and what they are, we do not approve, we are watching, and we are notifying others. Above all else, BOYCOTT the fakes and make sure your friends do not fall victim to them! At the Lakota Summit V, an international gathering of US and Canadian Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations, about 500 representatives from 40 different tribes and bands of the Lakota unanimously passed a "Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality." The following declaration was unanimously passed on June 10, 1993 Declaration of War WHEREAS we are the conveners of an ongoing series of comprehensive forums on the abuse and exploitation of Lakota spirituality; and

86. Midwest Today: Gambling On A New Life Newspaper article exploring some of the pros and cons of Indian gaming. http://www.midtod.com/highlights/gambling.phtml

Midwest Today , January 1995 T R E N D S GAMBLING ON A NEW LIFE Indian gaming is not such a sure bet; despite its success, opposition abounds By NEAL LAWRENCE Tim Giago, Publisher and Editor-in-chief of the Indian County Today newspaper in Rapid City, S.D., talks reflectively about what he calls the "casino culture." He observes that "Many years ago, when I worked as a 'keyman' at Harrah's Casino in Reno, NV., while attending school there, I never dreamed that huge, Reno-like casinos would eventually become a part of the landscape on Indian reservations. "It is almost scary to see this culture invading the quiet, peaceful lands of the Indian reservations." Giago admits he has mixed emotions about it. Rick Hill, a Wisconsin Oneida Indian who is chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), puts it bluntly: "The tribes don't have any money unless we do gaming, because we don't have a tax base. We have lived in Third World poverty conditions, but gaming has proven to be mutually beneficial to state and tribal governments." Some tribes have had a lot of luck with gambling. Others have rolled snake eyes.

87. Indian Casinos And Gaming Some call casinos the New Buffalo. Controversial, sometimes profitable (the first such businesses in Indian Country) about them, what tribes do with the income, how to find, legal developments, traditional gambling songs. http://www.kstrom.net/isk/games/gaming.html

Casinos: Is Gaming the 'New Buffalo'? Page Buttons S potlights form a tipi of light, visible for many miles above the Mystic Lake Casino, operated by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota (Sioux) of Prior Lake, just 20 minutes south of the Twin Cities, in Minnesota. The second-best Indian casino moneymaker in the U.S. (after the Pequots' Foxwoods), it was one of the first to get started. It began in 6 trailers on Shakopee Reservation land, named "Little Six" a reference to the band's 19th century Dakota leader Shakopee, whose name means "LIttle Six" in Dakota. The enterprise has been so successful that there is now a Little Six casino building, overshadowed by the fancier, larger Mystic Lake casino, which runs shuttlebusses from the nearby metropolitan area, and draws thousands of tour groups. Also shown: an Isleta, New Mexico casino chip complete with the traditional Isleta tribal seal of Great Eagle surrounded by feathers. G ambling is big biz close to $400 billion a year and growing. Americans outspend all their other forms of entertainment and self-education put together on gambling. A lthough Indian tribal casinos have received the most attention, criticism, and jealousy, on the right from 1996 federal statistics is who's making money from it. There are some 557 federally recognized reservations. About 33% do have some form of commercial gaming now, and 29% more hope to. But many on reservations far from population centers and with nothing in particular to attract tourists are not successful. For those who are, though, it is just about the only business success story that Indian reservations have ever had.

88. Six Nations Adoptees Search and support for adoptees, birth parents and birth siblings of the Iroquois Nations. http://bodhipines.com/6nations/

89. MY FIRST NATIONS PAGE Information for native adoptees searching for birth family, as well as adoption and genealogy links. http://members.tripod.com/~SkyatDawn/index-4.html

Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); Updated August 12, 1999 IN MEMORY OF CARIBOU This page is being constructed to help other native adoptees and birthparents hoping to find to lost ones. As information becomes available it will be added. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. This is an ongoing process, but there is little information out there to help native adoptees, especially the ones who are alone and do not know where or how to start a search. If you have made it this far, you are not alone, there are people out there who are willing and able to help. It is sometimes hard to reach out to others you do not know. The fear of rejection keeps us from being together. It is hard, but easy paths aren't always the best ones. Everyone needs support, even if it is just someone who will listen. Noone has all the answers, and sometimes the answers you seek can be painful. The healing journey has many up and downs.In the end, you may not find what you expected, but at least you will know the truth. I am searching for my birthbrothers. We were adopted out to different families. My brother's name is

90. Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program Reuniting First Nations adoptees (including those in long-term foster care) with their birth families. http://www.wrcfs.org/repat/

HOME CONTACT HOME About Us ... Register with Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program. Reuniting First Nations adoptees (including those in long-term foster care) with their birth families. Welcome to the Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program web site. Reuniting First Nations Adoptees and Birth Families. The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program (SMFNRP) is a coordinated effort of the First Nations Child and Family Services agencies and First Nations Bands of Manitoba to address the issues of treaty status adoptees'. The Repatriation Program actively searches for adoptees' and birth parents who were affected by the 'sixties scoop'. The Manitoba First Nations are convinced that only by managing their own services will the First Nations communities be able to recover a lost generation and prevent the loss of another. The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program has gained national attention in its attempts to let our adoptees know that we did not give them away and that we are searching for them. The program has been a guest on Front Page Challenge, CBC's Witness, Unsolved Mysteries, as well as many other national / local radio programs and newspapers.

91. Black Market Adoption Article on the illicit adoption of Navajo children. http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msroots/BMA/BMGEN3.htm

Search billions of records on Ancestry.com Boston Globe June 2, 1996 REUNION DAY AT 43, NAVAJO NATIVE FINALLY HOME Author: Royal Ford, Globe Staff TOLANI LAKE, Ariz. She stood in brilliant white sunlight, scuffed the cracked skin of the vast, parched land and stared down at the very spot where the old woman told her she had been born, right there, in a hogan that is gone, beside a field where corn once grew. The woman her family called "the old aunt" reached up with a warm, dark hand and touched her high cheekbone. "You are so like your mother," Besbah Yazzie told her. Weeping in the baked expanse of the Navajo Reservation, they hugged. Yvette Silverman Melanson, stolen along with a twin brother from her Navajo family 43 years ago, raised rich, white and Jewish in Brooklyn, was finally home. "One more of us is still out there and a whole lot more of the others," Melanson said in reference to her missing brother and thousands of other Native American children stolen from their families over the years and put on the black market for adoption . "This is not right. We have to find them. We have to find the boy." Navajo natives had come from across the reservation to welcome her home.

92. The Native Adoptee - Home Resources, stories, and articles to help Indian children in search of their birth families. http://web.ncf.ca/de723/adoptee.html

last updated 2008-Nov-16 This page is dedicated to native adoptees and foster children - past, present and future. In the fifties and sixties many native children were adopted into non-native homes or were taken into foster care. Patrick Johnston in his study Native Children and the Child Welfare System coined the phrase "Sixties Scoop" to describe this phenomenon. I was one of those children. That's me on the left, in the earliest picture I have of myself. I have been fortunate to reunite with two of my sisters. We are still looking for our brother. Our mother passed away many years ago. I grew up thinking I was an oddity and didn't realize until many years later that there were many others like me. Many paths, many stories All of our stories are unique. Some of us are aware of our tribal affiliations, others have no way of ever finding out. Some are driven by the search for kin, others are not. Some of us have met blood relatives, others will never know their natural kin. Some were raised in positive environments, others were not so fortunate. You can read some of their stories on the Articles page. Please visit the

93. Civil Rights Division Indian Brochure Article explaining and informing about the legal rights of Native Americans and how to attain them. http://www.justice.gov/crt/indian/broch.php

Skip to content Main Page AAG Thomas E. Perez About Us ... Feedback Form Protecting the Civil Rights of American Indians and Alaska Natives "I intend to send a clear message that all of our people — whether they live in our biggest cities or our most remote reservations — have the right to feel safe in their own communities, and to raise their children in peace, and enjoy the fullest protection of our laws." President Barack Obama Remarks Before Signing the Tribal Law and Order Act July 29, 2010 "This Administration is taking concrete steps to redefine the government’s relationship with Native Americans. By working together, by using every tool at our disposal, by facing up to hard truths and by refusing to ever back down or give up, we can make a real difference – and we will." Attorney General Eric Holder I have made the Civil Rights of American Indians a priority for the Civil Rights Division. For far too long Native Americans have experienced discrimination and injustice, and the federal government can and must stop such discrimination." Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez Introduction Criminal Statutes - You have a right to be free from acts of violence for which you were targeted because of your race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. You also have a right to obtain reproductive health services and information without being subjected to force or threats of force or physical obstruction.

94. First Nations Commission On Civil Rights Foundation providing free legal information concerning the legal and civil rights of First Nations People throughout the Americas. http://jimwindwalker.tripod.com/indianlawusa/

Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); Home Web Rings Special Events Classified Ads ... Issues First Nations Commission On Civil Rights Defend The Wolves And Wildlife Launches New Domain! 2004 Election: Voting Right Violations! Click here to visit First Nations Resource Sites! Welcome To The First Nations Commission On Civil Rights. Civil Rights Klamath Falls Update First Nations Outreach Projects Wolf Rescue Project Search My Site Use the Search Box above to search our Site for information. Subscribe! Enter your email to join FNRights today! Welcome to American Indian Foundation For Law And Justice. We provide free legal information concerning the Civil Rights of First Nations People. We also will provide many links to other laws pertaining to American Indian People. While the focus of this site is Civil Rights, we do not do legal representation in any area. Our staff consists of professionals and lay people who are concerned with the Civil Rights and Human Rights issues facing First Nations People in the United States, Canada, Central America, South America and Mexico. If you are interested in helping in these areas please E-Mail us at our address here. Our primary focus is on the CRIMINAL aspects of Civil Rights Laws. We help to see that violators of Civil Rights are punished through the Civil Rights laws.

95. Spiritual Commodification And Misappropriation Essay on Native American beliefs about religious exploitation, with quotes from many prominent American Indians. http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/native.html

GO TO: Sonoma County Free Press Home Page Columns Features Spiritual Commodification and Misappropriation What Native People Want You To Understand Compiled by Mariah Jones There is a disinformation campaign in progress in Sonoma County to undermine Native peoples' nationwide efforts to protect their ceremonial processes from abuse. The promulgators would have you believe that only a few "militant" Indians are concerned about this exploitation by those who have no real knowledge of the deep inner meaning inherent in these ceremonies. The truth is that the overwhelming majority of Native people DO object to this phenomenon. If you stand with Indian people, then you respect their moral right to decide under which circumstances their ceremonies will be "shared" with non-Indians. Please read the following statements by Native people. They are spiritual leaders, authors, attorneys, anthropologists, scholars, activists, educators and tribal leaders. Though they represent just a small percentage of those who have spoken out on this issue, the concepts presented will give you some idea of the perspective you are being asked to consider. "What's at issue here is the same old question that Europeans have always posed with regard to American Indians, whether what's ours isn't somehow theirs. And, of course, they've always answered in the affirmative. Now, being spiritually bankrupt themselves, they want our spirituality as well. So, they make up rationalizations to explain why they're entitled to it."

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