Trahant: When a step aside was ‘a godsend’
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- Trahant: When a step aside was ‘a godsend’
- Capitol lacks racial representation
- We can’t afford not to have health reform
- Paterson wrong to reverse course on cigarette tax
- Photos courtesy CM Russell Museum
- Chance of ancient burial ground halts Causeway floodwall project
Trahant: When a step aside was ‘a godsend’
Indian Country Today
Kennedy jumped into American Indian issues with zeal after his brother Bobby was assassinated. Kennedy had used the Indian Education Subcommittee as his platform during his extensive travels across Indian country with the anti-poverty tour.
Capitol lacks racial representation
Myrtle Beach Sun News
– A black or American Indian child visiting the state Capitol on a school field trip can wander among the statues monuments and plaques inside or outside without seeing an image of someone of the same skin color. What the student could see is a statue of former Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock a leading spokesman for the white supremacy campaigns of 1898 and 1900 that were marked by violence and voter intimidation. And there’s the statue of Andrew Jackson who oversaw the forced removal of American Indians from their homelands in the 1830s the infamous Trail of Tears march that killed thousands of them.
We can’t afford not to have health reform
The Missoulian
We also contribute to a self insurancefund and like everyone else we would like to see those costsreduced and health insurance reform would help accomplishthat. My other interest relates to a recent visit by a Fox News reporterto an Indian reservation in South Dakota. He made the argument thatif the IHS couldn’t provide decent health care there how could thefederal government do so nationally? This is the first I had heardof Fox News being concerned about the health of the American Indianpeople. The crocodile tears they shed were not only disingenuousbut a continuation of their misleading attacks on anything bama. They were comparing apples to oranges. n the reservations theyvisited the federal government through the IHS is providingdirect care with federally employed doctors and nurses. If the debate in Washington was over the question of whether weshould have nationalized health care then comparisons to the IHSmight be interesting and educational.
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Paterson wrong to reverse course on cigarette tax
MPNnow.com
District Court Justice Carol Amon for her decision reaffirming the legislation — and knocking Paterson for his inaction. “In a time when our state is struggling it is unconscionable that the governor refuses to follow the law he signed to collect these taxes and grant some relief to our hard-working taxpayers” said Nozzolio whose 54th District includes northern and eastern ntario County and all of Wayne County. What’s the problem? fficials should not be intimidated by the threat of American Indian protests similar to 1997. There are laws to deal with civil disobedience and anyone who breaks those laws should be dealt with accordingly. Paterson should make that clear. The governor also should devise the recommended coupon system and collect the tax. It has been estimated that New York could garner about $400 million annually if it enforced the law — not to mention the fact that legitimate tax-paying merchants are being hurt or even run out of business by unfair competition.
Photos courtesy CM Russell Museum
Cowboys and Indians
Although no live bison are part of the presentation a commanding life-size diorama dominates one gallery. Beside a running buffalo is an Indian on horseback his face transfixed on his mission bow and arrow aimed and ready to take down the prey. Three artists collaborated on the piece: The bison was done by taxidermist Bruce Babcock the American Indian by Allen Chronister and the brown and white mustang by Neal Deaton. Also created specifically for this show is a tepee made of three hides which was fashioned by Larry Belitz. He hand-scraped and tanned the hides following the ways of Native Americans in the 1800s. A bison robe loaned by the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning Montana is another noteworthy piece. About 125 years old it is decorated with horizontal strips of yellow and red beadwork.
Chance of ancient burial ground halts Causeway floodwall project
The Times-Picayune – NLA.com
There are new tribal concerns that American Indian ancestral bones could be under Lake Pontchartrain where dredging would occur during proposed floodwall construction beneath Causeway Boulevard. It is the second cultural red flag raised in the past two months as the Army Corps of Engineers evaluates how if approved the floodwall work would affect people and their environments. The lengthy evaluation process is required by federal law and must be finished before property can be acquired and a construction contract can be awarded for the project which is already months behind schedule. The first case involves a request for the corps to consider sparing the historical.
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