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SOBOBA INDIAN RESERVATION RIVERSIDE COUNTY Tension high after fatal…
San Francisco Chronicle – Jun 11, 2008
Stone recently visited residents of a mobile-home park near the reservation who complained of gunfire and bullets falling onto their roofs. Until the violence is quelled San Jacinto Mayor Jim Ayres has asked the tribe to withdraw an application to annex more than 500 acres of land for a hotel and casino complex. But Salgado 65 says no one has the right to tell American Indians how to run their sovereign nations. “Why didn’t Stone come to me man to man and say that? And who is the mayor of San Jacinto to tell us what to do?” he asked. “Where were these people when we had nothing? Now that we are self-sufficient it makes them fearful. If people in the trailer park aren’t happy he said they should “get back on Plymouth Rock and sail back to Europe. Blunt talk comes naturally to Salgado… “It would have been very nice if when ordered to drop weapons and surrender they did. Even if the tribe and the department strike a deal it won’t be the end of the story. The tribe’s lawyer veteran American Indian rights’ attorney Jack Schwartz is investigating whether deputies violated the tribe’s civil rights. “The creator knows what happened. He knows who shot who” Salgado said. “When the dust settles we’ll see if it was a lawful shooting or murder. My gut tells me it was murder.
Daily Times – Site Edition
Daily Times – Jun 11, 2008
Children were forcibly taken from their parents to instill mainstream language culture and values. An Indian Affairs official in 1920 said the goal was “to kill the Indian in the child”. “Our object is to continue until there is not a single American Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed – and there is no American Indian question” wrote Duncan Campbell Scott deputy superintendent general of the Indian Affairs department. Native rituals such as pow-wows were outlawed and entire communities relocated. The report says a commission concluded in 1996 that the programme indelibly damaged generations of aboriginal people and subverted their culture prompting the last of the schools to be shut down. It outlined a programme of healing and redress but that has been a long time coming. For Justice Harry LaForme the chair of the newly formed Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission the truth is now largely known – the real work will be in the reconciliation.
Battle for Sitting Bull’s Badlands
New Zealand Herald – Jun 11, 2008
About 120 of his followers and 230 women and children took refuge at Pine Ridge South Dakota where they were surrounded by the Cavalry. About 300 men women and children were killed. In the 1970s the American Indian Movement reoccupied the site leading to more bloodshed this time at the hands of the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But what rankles for Anita Ecoffey 65 an elder of the Oglala Sioux who lives in Wounded Knee was her family’s eviction from ancestral lands in the 1940s by the military. “To me this is as bad as what happened at Wounded Knee” she said. Professor Karl Jacoby of Brown University said: “There weren’t empty wilderness areas in the United States. They had to be created by the removal of Indians.
Study Shows Colorado Has Largest Rise in Child Poverty
New York Times – Jun 11, 2008
The most pronounced rates of child poverty were found in urban centers like Denver and in southern rural areas like Alamosa and Costilla Counties. Minority children were particularly affected. The number of the state’s American Indian children living in poverty increased by 473 percent the report said and the number of impoverished black children grew by 116 percent. In contrast the number of impoverished white children grew by 57 percent and for Asian children it declined by 10 percent. At a news conference on Tuesday Gov. called the statistics “awful” and said that “they clearly demonstrate that we have a responsibility to people who live on the margins.
Indian firms boost American jobs: US group
Economic Times – Jun 11, 2008
Called “Investing in America: The Indian Story” theUS-India Business Council (USIBC) initiative will be launched June 13 at theHotel Taj Boston with a keynote address by India’s Minister of Science andTechnology Kapil Sibal. Outward bound Indian investment to the USand elsewhere is expected to top $25 billion in 2008 said the advocacy groupwhich is currently headed by India-born Pepsico chairperson Indira Nooyi. “Thisinvestment brings a new dimension to relations between the world’s largestdemocracies” it added. The “Investing in America” initiative willshowcase the positive contributions made by Indian companies to the US economyfrom the boosting of American jobs to best management practices exchangesbetween US and Indian managers to innovative new business strategies undertakenby Indian companies operating in America.
All of city to be a stage for DNC
Rocky Mountain News – Jun 11, 2008
More questionable are requests for alternate routes because police resources – necessary to clear streets and direct traffic – will be stretched thin Fine said. There is nothing preventing marchers from walking down a public sidewalk however as long as they follow traffic signals he said. Several groups including the American Indian Movement plan to march on sidewalks from Civic Center to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals at 18th and Stout streets to advocate for the release of what they say are political prisoners. Immigrant rights groups want to march Aug. 26 from Viking Park at 29th Avenue and Federal Boulevard to the Auraria campus. The Re-Create 68 Alliance which is planning several events also will rally outside parties and hotels where delegates and politicians are staying said organizer Glenn Spagnuolo.
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