By: Mitchell Freedman
Southampton Town is getting ready to buy 9.3 acres of waterfront land in Water Mill for $5 million, land that includes the site of an ancient summer village and burial ground for the Shinnecock Tribe.
Once the sale is completed, the tribe will hold a special ceremony to bury the skull of an Indian taken from a grave as part of an archaeological study about two years ago.
Rubin Valdez, a Shinnecock Indian, remembers how disquieting it was when he was called to Water Mill after the skull - believed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old - was found on a parcel of land a few miles from the tribe's reservation. The area had been a traditional summer village during the time when the tribe followed the food supply and lived closer to the water each summer. The skull has since been kept at a secret location.
"We looked into the face of this young man pulled out of the ground after 3,000 years," he said. "Now we have the opportunity to restore this young man back to his original grave site ... the rest of his remains are still at that site," he told the Southampton town board at a public hearing Tuesday, urging them to buy the waterfront land where the skull was found.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Teachers receive history lesson on local trails
By: Susannah Patton
Some of the roads in Northwest Arkansas were traveled by members of the Cherokee Indian tribe during the forced American Indian displacement from 1837 to 1839.
Parts of the same route would later become the longest stagecoach run operated by John Butterfield. A few years later, both the Confederate and Union armies would use the roads and trails to travel during the Civil War.
The history of the Trail of Tears, the Butterfield Stagecoach route and the routes of Civil War troops was relayed to several Northwest Arkansas teachers Thursday during "Heritage Trail: One Route, Three Histories of Arkansas."
The Professional Development Academy in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas partnered with the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks to educate teachers on the history of the Heritage Trail.
Judith Tavano, director of the academy, said teachers learn about the history of the area and take it back to their classrooms while also receiving professional development credit from the Arkansas Department of Education.
The workshop discussion centered around the Northwest Arkansas Heritage Trail, a network of bicycle and pedestrian trails that link the historical routes.
John McLarty, vice president of the Arkansas chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, presented information about the Trail of Tears. Based on some of the journals of people who were there, McLarty said, many detachment groups traveled right through Fayetteville.
The organization Heritage Trail Partners is still working to track their travels, he said, using the journals and looking back through land records.
There's more here: http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/65228/
Some of the roads in Northwest Arkansas were traveled by members of the Cherokee Indian tribe during the forced American Indian displacement from 1837 to 1839.
Parts of the same route would later become the longest stagecoach run operated by John Butterfield. A few years later, both the Confederate and Union armies would use the roads and trails to travel during the Civil War.
The history of the Trail of Tears, the Butterfield Stagecoach route and the routes of Civil War troops was relayed to several Northwest Arkansas teachers Thursday during "Heritage Trail: One Route, Three Histories of Arkansas."
The Professional Development Academy in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas partnered with the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks to educate teachers on the history of the Heritage Trail.
Judith Tavano, director of the academy, said teachers learn about the history of the area and take it back to their classrooms while also receiving professional development credit from the Arkansas Department of Education.
The workshop discussion centered around the Northwest Arkansas Heritage Trail, a network of bicycle and pedestrian trails that link the historical routes.
John McLarty, vice president of the Arkansas chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, presented information about the Trail of Tears. Based on some of the journals of people who were there, McLarty said, many detachment groups traveled right through Fayetteville.
The organization Heritage Trail Partners is still working to track their travels, he said, using the journals and looking back through land records.
There's more here: http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/65228/
Lawyer criticizes eagle ruling
By: Ben Neary
CHEYENNE -- A specialist in American Indian law says a federal court ruling in the case of a Wyoming man who shot a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance follows a pattern of decisions that profess respect for American Indian religion while punishing individual tribal members.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week reinstated a misdemeanor criminal charge against Winslow Friday, 23, a Northern Arapaho. Friday shot a bald eagle on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming for use in his tribe's 2005 Sun Dance.
"What the opinion does, I think, is sort of give with one hand, while taking away with the other," said Sarah Krakoff, an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Krakoff said the panel's ruling has some language that is respectful of Indian religions and recognizes the unique situation that tribes are in with regard to the nature of their practices.
However, she said the ruling, in common with other federal cases about Indian religious freedom, ends up "punishing the individual Indian practitioner even while not doing any greater damage to the cause of recognition of the significance of Indian religion.
"The appellate court ruling reversed a 2006 decision by U.S. District Judge William Downes of Wyoming to dismiss the charge against Friday. Downes said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wouldn't have given Friday a permit to kill the bird even if he had applied for one.
If convicted of the reinstated charge, Friday could face up to a year in jail and a fine.
Speaking after the court ruling last week, Friday said he was disappointed in the ruling."I didn't expect this kind of an outcome," he said. "I can't explain it."
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CHEYENNE -- A specialist in American Indian law says a federal court ruling in the case of a Wyoming man who shot a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance follows a pattern of decisions that profess respect for American Indian religion while punishing individual tribal members.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week reinstated a misdemeanor criminal charge against Winslow Friday, 23, a Northern Arapaho. Friday shot a bald eagle on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming for use in his tribe's 2005 Sun Dance.
"What the opinion does, I think, is sort of give with one hand, while taking away with the other," said Sarah Krakoff, an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Krakoff said the panel's ruling has some language that is respectful of Indian religions and recognizes the unique situation that tribes are in with regard to the nature of their practices.
However, she said the ruling, in common with other federal cases about Indian religious freedom, ends up "punishing the individual Indian practitioner even while not doing any greater damage to the cause of recognition of the significance of Indian religion.
"The appellate court ruling reversed a 2006 decision by U.S. District Judge William Downes of Wyoming to dismiss the charge against Friday. Downes said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wouldn't have given Friday a permit to kill the bird even if he had applied for one.
If convicted of the reinstated charge, Friday could face up to a year in jail and a fine.
Speaking after the court ruling last week, Friday said he was disappointed in the ruling."I didn't expect this kind of an outcome," he said. "I can't explain it."
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/05/16/news/wyoming/5756ad1af848de14872574490006fcbb.txt
Cherokee film makes its way to France
By: D.E. Smoot
A Cherokee language film produced by K.A. Gilliland will make its European debut at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
“Stories of the Cherokees” promoters say the Cannes, France, showing marks the first time a Cherokee language film has premiered at the famed French festival.
The film, which was commissioned for the Cherokee Travel Plaza in Roland in collaboration with Cherokee Nation Enterprises, promotes Cherokee culture and language through the eyes of Cherokee storytellers and actors.
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith said, “Stories of the Cherokees” is “a well-told story and a story that should be told.”
“We need more videos like this to let the public know what Cherokees are like, both in the past as well as today,” Smith said. “Using Cherokee language in the stories is part of our overall initiative to use every technology and opportunity we can find to promote our language.”
Gilliland said the 15-minute high-definition film was inspired by the traditions of Cherokee oral history. The short film, the first of the three originally planned, documents the tribe’s pre-Columbian existence.
Keep reading here: http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/local/local_story_136215217.html
A Cherokee language film produced by K.A. Gilliland will make its European debut at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
“Stories of the Cherokees” promoters say the Cannes, France, showing marks the first time a Cherokee language film has premiered at the famed French festival.
The film, which was commissioned for the Cherokee Travel Plaza in Roland in collaboration with Cherokee Nation Enterprises, promotes Cherokee culture and language through the eyes of Cherokee storytellers and actors.
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith said, “Stories of the Cherokees” is “a well-told story and a story that should be told.”
“We need more videos like this to let the public know what Cherokees are like, both in the past as well as today,” Smith said. “Using Cherokee language in the stories is part of our overall initiative to use every technology and opportunity we can find to promote our language.”
Gilliland said the 15-minute high-definition film was inspired by the traditions of Cherokee oral history. The short film, the first of the three originally planned, documents the tribe’s pre-Columbian existence.
Keep reading here: http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/local/local_story_136215217.html
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