Associated Press
WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) - The skeletal remains of about 600 American Indians stored at Ohio State University for more than 40 years will be returned to West Virginia for reburial.
Putnam County commissioners signed an agreement with Ohio State Tuesday to have the remains returned to the county.
Several groups in West Virginia have worked for about 10 years to bring the remains back.
The remains were sent to the university after they were found in Buffalo in the early 1960s.
Putnam County Commissioner Joe Haynes says no tribe ever reclaimed the remains.
Federal officials couldn't link the remains to any specific tribe, whichcleared the way for the commission to claim them for reburial.
Haynes says a site for the reburial hasn't yet been chosen.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Tradition important to aboriginal mining company
By: Stacey O'Brien
When the buffalo were scarce in the past, a legend tells of a Blackfoot woman going out and looking for guidance about how to feed and clothe the tribe.
“She came along and found one of the ammonite that she thought was a beautiful rock. She took it back to the tribe and, within a short time, the buffalo came back,” said Beth Day Chief, one of the owners of the Buffalo Rock Mining Company.
The story inspired the name of Day Chief and her husband Tracy Day Chief’s company, Buffalo Rock Mining Company. Day Chief said it’s the first aboriginally owned mining company mining for ammonite and she is appreciative of Blood Tribe chief and council and Indian Affairs for giving them the opportunity to start the company on the Blood Reserve.
The mining began six short weeks ago, but Day Chief and her husband started looking into doing the mining five years ago and incorporated their company more than two years ago, with shareholders and marketers Cathy and Todd Spencer coming on board. They eventually hope to employ 25 people from the Blood Tribe.
The company has taken special precautions with the site, 10 kilometres southwest of the Lethbridge County Airport, close to the St. Mary River. They’ve had Fisheries and Oceans Canada come in and elder Bruce Wolf Child examine the site because it’s close to the river and a buffalo jump.
A past campsite with teepee rings and a couple of gravesites are also nearby, so the company is told where they are able to mine and where they cannot.
“Once we’re done two acres, we have to reclaim the site to make it look exactly like it was before we started. So that is really important to the tribe that we do not disturb the land,” Day Chief said.
She said they expect to be on the current site for the next three years and, besides the elasmosaur, they have already uncovered about 40 recycling bins of ammonite, which they hope to eventually sell not just locally, but internationally. A large fully intact ammonite fossil can be worth $15,000.
“It’s really exciting to get to this point,” Day Chief said. “It’s been a long hard road to get here, but it is worth it.
When the buffalo were scarce in the past, a legend tells of a Blackfoot woman going out and looking for guidance about how to feed and clothe the tribe.
“She came along and found one of the ammonite that she thought was a beautiful rock. She took it back to the tribe and, within a short time, the buffalo came back,” said Beth Day Chief, one of the owners of the Buffalo Rock Mining Company.
The story inspired the name of Day Chief and her husband Tracy Day Chief’s company, Buffalo Rock Mining Company. Day Chief said it’s the first aboriginally owned mining company mining for ammonite and she is appreciative of Blood Tribe chief and council and Indian Affairs for giving them the opportunity to start the company on the Blood Reserve.
The mining began six short weeks ago, but Day Chief and her husband started looking into doing the mining five years ago and incorporated their company more than two years ago, with shareholders and marketers Cathy and Todd Spencer coming on board. They eventually hope to employ 25 people from the Blood Tribe.
The company has taken special precautions with the site, 10 kilometres southwest of the Lethbridge County Airport, close to the St. Mary River. They’ve had Fisheries and Oceans Canada come in and elder Bruce Wolf Child examine the site because it’s close to the river and a buffalo jump.
A past campsite with teepee rings and a couple of gravesites are also nearby, so the company is told where they are able to mine and where they cannot.
“Once we’re done two acres, we have to reclaim the site to make it look exactly like it was before we started. So that is really important to the tribe that we do not disturb the land,” Day Chief said.
She said they expect to be on the current site for the next three years and, besides the elasmosaur, they have already uncovered about 40 recycling bins of ammonite, which they hope to eventually sell not just locally, but internationally. A large fully intact ammonite fossil can be worth $15,000.
“It’s really exciting to get to this point,” Day Chief said. “It’s been a long hard road to get here, but it is worth it.
Family of missing Six Nations woman appeals for clues
CBC News
The family of a pregnant woman from the Six Nations reserve who has been missing for nine weeks has made an appeal to the public for clues to her whereabouts.
Tashina General, 21, was reported missing to Six Nations Police on Jan. 23 in her hometown of Ohsweken, a village on the Six Nations reserve southeast of Brantford, Ont.
Members of her family held a press conference at Grand River Polytechnic in Ohsweken Thursday, making a tearful request for information on her disappearance.
"If she's out there and she can see what's going on, please call home. Everyone's really concerned about her. We just hope that she'll make it home safely," her best friend, Chloe Dennis, told CBC News.
Dennis, 18, said it was very out of character for General to disappear without contacting her family. She said she spoke to General the day before she went missing but didn't notice anything suspicious about her friend's behaviour.
"She seemed her happy self, because she is really outgoing," Dennis said.
Get the whole story and a photo of her here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/27/missing-woman.html
The family of a pregnant woman from the Six Nations reserve who has been missing for nine weeks has made an appeal to the public for clues to her whereabouts.
Tashina General, 21, was reported missing to Six Nations Police on Jan. 23 in her hometown of Ohsweken, a village on the Six Nations reserve southeast of Brantford, Ont.
Members of her family held a press conference at Grand River Polytechnic in Ohsweken Thursday, making a tearful request for information on her disappearance.
"If she's out there and she can see what's going on, please call home. Everyone's really concerned about her. We just hope that she'll make it home safely," her best friend, Chloe Dennis, told CBC News.
Dennis, 18, said it was very out of character for General to disappear without contacting her family. She said she spoke to General the day before she went missing but didn't notice anything suspicious about her friend's behaviour.
"She seemed her happy self, because she is really outgoing," Dennis said.
Get the whole story and a photo of her here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/27/missing-woman.html
Navajos set to tap power of the wind
By: Dennis Wagner and Ryan Randazzo
Hundreds of windmills reaching nearly 400 feet into the sky could begin sprouting on the Navajo Reservation north of Flagstaff under a new agreement to harness wind energy for electrical use.
The Navajo Nation announced Thursday that it will partner with a Boston company to capitalize on the blustery conditions prevailing on the high mesas of northern Arizona. The Diné Wind Project, which would be the first commercial wind farm in the state, calls for Citizens Energy Corp. to invest millions of dollars to build the energy-collecting towers.The enterprise was sealed this month by Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr., other key tribal officials and Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former congressman and son of the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. The agreement comes after nearly two years of pre-development work and marks another step in the Navajo Nation's move to exploit renewable-power sources for so-called clean energy.
In a news release Thursday, Shirley said the wind-gathering effort will "bring prosperity for the Navajo people and build our energy independence while providing jobs and other benefits for the Navajo Nation.
"The operation is planned in the Gray Mountain area west of U.S. 89, about 50 miles north of Flagstaff.
The tribe and its Diné Power Authority become partners in a joint enterprise known as Citizens Enterprise Corp., a subsidiary of Citizens Energy. Deswood Tome, a Navajo Nation spokesman, said the project is expected to generate 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to serve an estimated 100,000 households. As many as 300 turbine towers would be erected in several locations between Flagstaff and Tuba City, with first-phase completion in about three years.
There's more to the story here: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0328navajo-wind0328.html
Hundreds of windmills reaching nearly 400 feet into the sky could begin sprouting on the Navajo Reservation north of Flagstaff under a new agreement to harness wind energy for electrical use.
The Navajo Nation announced Thursday that it will partner with a Boston company to capitalize on the blustery conditions prevailing on the high mesas of northern Arizona. The Diné Wind Project, which would be the first commercial wind farm in the state, calls for Citizens Energy Corp. to invest millions of dollars to build the energy-collecting towers.The enterprise was sealed this month by Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr., other key tribal officials and Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former congressman and son of the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. The agreement comes after nearly two years of pre-development work and marks another step in the Navajo Nation's move to exploit renewable-power sources for so-called clean energy.
In a news release Thursday, Shirley said the wind-gathering effort will "bring prosperity for the Navajo people and build our energy independence while providing jobs and other benefits for the Navajo Nation.
"The operation is planned in the Gray Mountain area west of U.S. 89, about 50 miles north of Flagstaff.
The tribe and its Diné Power Authority become partners in a joint enterprise known as Citizens Enterprise Corp., a subsidiary of Citizens Energy. Deswood Tome, a Navajo Nation spokesman, said the project is expected to generate 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to serve an estimated 100,000 households. As many as 300 turbine towers would be erected in several locations between Flagstaff and Tuba City, with first-phase completion in about three years.
There's more to the story here: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0328navajo-wind0328.html
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