Blackfeet, Montana County in Extradition Stalemate

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Wanbli WiWohkpe He Emaciapelo. Ma Lakota. A direct, lineal descendant of Chief White Swan, High Bear, and Horse With The Horn, I come from Hunkpapa and Owoju blood. My ancestors were Winter Count Keepers also.

I made relations With Siyotanka Oyate ki through Ceremony. Hehaka Oyate ki, among others, spoke to me. All the Siyotanka I make are from simple PVC.

Lakol Wicohan ki, The Friendly Lifeway of the Lakota People, is a simple way. It is about being a relative. It is about learning to relate with self and others. It is simple and not mystical. Read more

Ceremony marks opening of new Duwamish longhouse

BYJOHN IWASAKI
P-I REPORTER
Seattle, Washington:

Leaders of the Duwamish Tribe of Seattle welcomed the community into its new longhouse and cultural center Saturday, with the public celebration serving to reunite the tribe with the city named after its early chief.

The opening of the longhouse on West Marginal Way Southwest marked the realizationof a dream that began several decades ago. The next step, gaining federal recognition and the benefits that accompany it, seems equally arduous.

The Duwamish’s “right to sovereignty is in serious jeopardy,” even as it continues to appeal the government’s 2001 decision not to recognize the tribe, said Scott Wheat, an attorney for the Duwamish and a member of the Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma.He thinks the Duwamish might have a better shot by trying a different path: urging Congress to pass a bill that grants recognition to the tribe of about 600 members. Read more

US Will Break Into Six Parts

Igor Panarin : US Will Break Into Six Parts (Russian Professor)

Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — A professor at the diplomatic academy of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the U.S. will break into six parts because of the nation’s financial crisis.

“The dollar isn’t secured by anything,” Igor Panarin said in an interview transcribed by Russian newspaper Izvestia today. “The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche; this is a pyramid, which has to collapse.”

Panarin said in the interview that the financial crisis will worsen, unemployment will rise and people will lose their savings — factors that will cause the country’s breakup.

“Dissatisfaction is growing, and it is only being held back at the moment by the elections, and the hope” that President- elect Barack Obama “can work miracles,” he said. “But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”

Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/igor-panarin-us-will-brea_n_146427.html

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Wash. tribe seek to move away from flooding danger

HOH INDIAN RESERVATION, Wash. Flooding used to be a problem every five or 10 years forthe tiny Hoh Indian Reservation. These days it’s an annual event.Sandbags permanently surround the tribal center and many homes because the nearby Hoh River has meandered dangerously closer over time. Meanwhile, most of

the 443-acre reservation is less than 40 feet above sea level, and could be devastated by a major tsunami.

So the Hoh Indians are trying to move to higher ground.”We’re literally moving the village,” said Alexis Barry, executive director of the tribe in remote northwestern Washington. “We’ve known for a long time this

There’s just one catch: The tribe needs 37 acres of the Olympic National Park to connect their existing land with property they’ve acquired from private owners and the state.The river and its salmon have always been focal to its history and identity, but the tribe weren’t always confined to this one-square mile plot at the mouth of the river.Tribal members historically used the entire river to fish, hunt and forage. But the Hoh and other tribes ceded their land to the government under the Quinault Treaty of 1856.has had to happen. Read more