AMERI-ADVOCATE CHARITIES AND FOCUS OF THE MONTH

Dear all;  In the spirit of the Ameri-Advocate and this Holy of season's
we wish to make a last minute plea on behalf of those who are rarely
heard nor recognized but deserve and more importantly NEED everyone's help.

To assist in making our point, please note the following statistic's...

Information obtained from
US NEWS - BASIC DATA INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE - CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
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|TYPE |                    |Indians and Alaska Natives   | All races |
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MOTOR VEHICAL ACCIDENTS           79.3                      23.7
ALL OTHER ACCIDENTS               61.4                      20.0
ALCOHOLISM                        57.3                       7.4
HOMICIDE                          25.5                      10.4
PNEUMONIA, INFLUENZA              23.1                      11.4
DIABETES                          22.8                      10.0
SUICIDE                           21.8                      11.9
TUBERCULOSIS                       4.4                        .7
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Additionally, with the climatic changes that have so severely and
significantly affected our planet and specifically our continent
due to the environmental impact of our industrialization; those who
bear no responsiblity but face the most serious consequences of
these changes are doing so alone and thus face great peril.  Desert
natives are now having to deal with snow and freezing cold; unprepared
and with little to battle the elements.  Additionally, many in the
the coldest regions of our continent are facing this winter with out
heat or even the means to produce it.  Please take this moment and
help these wonderful people who have cried through the millenia to
respect this planet and who have and are suffering so much, for no cause,
or reason.  Now is a time we can make a difference and a significant
contribution to not only their survival but our own.

May God the Great Spirit guide and bless you this day and for evermore.

Merry Christmas, sincerely and humbly yours,

The Ameri-Advocate -  Ellis D. Smith  -

WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
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The following information is furnished to help and assist the following
tribes.  Any help will be much appreciated.


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Council of Indians - A member of National  Releif Charities
Raina E. Aubid, OJIBWA
Chairperson
P.O. Box 1800
Apache Junction  AZ 85217-9981
 
Operates throughout the southwest

Needs:
1. Healthy food to Navajo Natives in very remote communities where access to
food is a problem.
2. Funding medical clinics that would not otherwise operate effectively
without our help.
3. Winterizing and repair of housing on the reservations.
4. Providing good to soup kitchens in remote areas of reservations where it
might typically provide the only meal of
the day to some elders and children.

They work on 12 different reservations across the United States.  We try to
spend every dollar we get wisely.  Please
consider helping C.I.N.

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Assistance for New A.I.M. Chapter
Contact Co-Director Milton Eastman
Donations send to
A.I.M. EASTERN DAKOTA CHAPTER
P.O. Box 232 Peever
South Dakota 57257

or call 605-698-7417 or 605-698-7100

Needed:

1. baby food
2. clothing
3. blankets
4. food
5. toys
6. household goods

Call or write for futrther list online at  AIMAZ@AOL.COM

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NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND (legal eagles for reservations and problems)
John Echohawk Director
1506 Broadway
Boulder Colorado 80302-6296
Online WWW.NARF.ORG or call 303-447-8760
Send check or money order - Tax Deductiable

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AMERICAN INDIAN RELIEF COUNCIL
A member of National RElief Charities
c/o Brian Brown
P.O. Box 6200
Rapid City, South Dakota 57709-9979

Send check, cash or money order

Needs:
1. meats and food for elderly and children

$5.20 provides 1 turkey meal
$13.00 provides 3
$26.00 provides 5
$104.00 provides 20

Tax Deductible
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OPERATION WINTER RESCUE
President Norman Wilson          Rosebud Souix Tribe
11 Legion Ave. P.O. Box 430
Rosebud South Dakota 57570

Voice 605-747-2381 Fax 605-747-2905

President Alex Little Soldier     Native American Heritage Assoc.
P.O. Box 512 Rapid City South Dakota 57709-9861

Hundreds of families on the Rosebud Reservation do not have heat.

BOARD OF ADVISORS that you can contact for futher information

Rosebud Sioux Tribe - President - Norman Wilson
               Former President - Willie Kindle

Cherokee Tribe           Creek, Seminole     Iroquois Confederacy
Lloyd Carl Owle          Johnny Tiger Jr.      Maisie Shenandoah

Dr. Arvol Looking Horse           United Sioux Tribes
Keeper of the Sacred Pipe         Clarence Skye
                                  Executive Director

Money will help provide fuel and emergency stoves for families on the
Rosebud Reservation without heat.  Call or write for additional information.

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St. Labre Indian School Educational Association
Ashland Montana  59004-1001

also

St. Labre Indian School Ashland Montana
Pretty Eagle School at Xavier Montana
St. Charles school at Pryor Montana

All serving Native People on the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Native
Reservations.

Curtis Yarlott
for Indian Children of St. Labre
Check or money order
$8.00 minimum per child.  There are over 700 children in attendance.
(I’ve personally visited these schools and its simply a miracle to see what
they’re able to
do with what little they have to work with)

Write for additional information -  Tax Deductible
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DAKOTA INDIAN FOUNDATION
Executive Director - Ronald Kjone Gaard
P.O. Box 340
Chamberlain South Dakota 57325-0340

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LITTLE SIOUX
St. Francis Indian Mission
Director - Marlon J. Leneaugh
P.O. Box 149
St. Francis South Dakota 57572-0149

Motto: Together in path since 1886

Information from
US NEWS - BASIC DATA INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
---------------------------------------------------------------------
TYPE                             N.A. and Alaska Natives -  All races
---------------------------------------------------------------------
MOTOR VEHICAL ACCIDENTS           79.3                      23.7
ALL OTHER ACCIDENTS               61.4                      20.0
ALCOHOLISM                        57.3                       7.4
HOMICIDE                          25.5                      10.4
PNEUMONIA, INFLUENZA              23.1                      11.4
DIABETES                          22.8                      10.0
SUICIDE                           21.8                      11.9
TUBERCULOSIS                       4.4                        .7

WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

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LAND ACQUISITIONS, PROPERTY SEIZURES and USE ISSUES

The following are a series of communications and writtings on the numerous problems ocurring today regarding land, property and use issues in the diverse area of property rights and the regulating agencies involved in usurping these rights. To get your opinions or experiences included on this page please participate in the discussions on the list or in the forum. When interest dictates we'll be setting up conferences with the assorted player's in this arena so you may present your views in person to those who may have some input in getting these views heard and where they can be addressed.


Subject: Fax Attack Re: Meeting with Pauline Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:04:54 -0800 (PST) From: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon CC: Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon Please fax similar letters all day Monday Dec. 7th to (520) 774-1977 and call them at (520) 779-2721 to pursuade their meeting on Tuesday Dec. 8th! PO Box 11715 Eugene, OR 97440 Christopher J. Bavasi, Executive Director US ONH Indian Relocation PO Box 201, 201 E Birch Flagstaff, AZ 86002 December 7, 1998 Christopher J. Bavasi: I urge you, as Executive Director of the United States Office of Navajo Hopi Indian Relocation, to meet directly with Dine'h Elder Pauline Whitesinger and other Dine'h non-signers of the Accommodation Agreement December 8th at her homesite near the Wide Ruins-Sweet Water Canyon area of the HPL in Arizona. This I urge you to do at her request! Ms. Whitesinger and others have received your 30-day notice to choose a site on the "New Lands" for relocation housing, or sign a so-called "Accommodation Agreement" lease contract, or face forcibly eviction. Throughout this forced relocation program, these traditional Dine'h (Navajo) have been left out of the decision-making process. They are the ones who have to live with the outcome of US government policy. Meet with and hear them! Fulfill your trust responsibility to them on December 8th. The United States has at times called relocation "voluntary" to counter critism by US citizens, the international community and the United Nations. However, we have always known it to be forced and inhumane, regardless of lease options or public relations campaigns. The looming threat to pick-a-site-while-you-still-can is nothing new, it is the same coersive language used against the traditional Dine'h since PL 93-531 partitioned the former Joint Use Area. This is the same coersive, threatening language used to pursuade unwilling and fearful Dine'h into signing away their sovereignty and religious rights under leases. We demand that you meet with Pauline Whitesinger in a respectful way, open to listening to her and to the other non-signers at her homesite Dec. 8th. It is your moral and legal obligation to see that their needs are met, their rights respected, and that NO HARM COME TO THESE PEOPLE! We demand that you stop making threats of forced evictions and livestock impoundments to these traditional Dine'h people! We demand that you stop the punitive and cruel measures against them designed to coerce their removal for almost three decades: injunctions against building or repairing their homes, water supply destruction, wood confiscation, sacred site and burial destruction, and ceremonial interference. Stop it!! Your only choice at this point is to cease forced relocation tactics and policies in your office and throughout the United States agencies and governmental bodies. Then, genuine efforts for restitution to those who have suffered under this ordeal will be required. If you do not comply, notice will be sent and those responsible will be held accountable for crimes against humanity. We will see to it! Sincerely, Beth Newberry, chair Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LAND GRAB'S FOR FUN AND PROFIT

ubject: 
            [Fwd: [aim] Black Mesa - Dine'h [Fwd: Fax Attack Re: Meeting with Pauline]] 
       Date: 
            Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:37:17 -0500 
       From: 
            Ellis Smith 
Organization: 
            Reuters Intl. LTD (ret.) 
         To: 
            starfriends@esosoft.com
        CC: 
            smithorg@bellatlantic.net


The govt. is attempting to "relocate" yet another
tribe of natives in order to usurp their land for some undisclosed reason
AND some rather interesting NUCLEAR type tests are being conducted
just upstream.

All very odd timing wise.

p.s., im joining the faxing effort, anyone interested in helping,
then join in.

ellis


Subject:
           [aim] Re: Fw: ACTION alert-Cimarron test
      Date:
           Mon, 07 Dec 1998 13:40:07 -0500
      From:
           Morning Star 
  Reply-To:
           aim@onelist.com
        To:
           Native_Issues@onelist.com, FIRST_NATIONS@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM,
aim@onelist.com
References:
           1


From: Morning Star 

Posted via Morning Star

- - - - - - - - -FORWARD - - - - - - - -
>Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 10:17:05 -0800
>From: "Save Ward Valley" 
>Subject: ACTION alert-Cimarron test
>
> SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR TEST IMMINENT -- THIS WEEK
>
> Dear activists:
>
> The final dress rehearsal, called a "dry run", for the subcritical nuclear
> test code-named Cimarron is scheduled for this Wednesday, December 9, at
> the Nevada Test Site, according to Department of Energy personnel at the
> Nevada Operations Office. When asked the exact date of the test, the
> staffer replied that he had not been given the go-ahead to announce it yet,
> but THAT THE TEST IS GOING TO BE CONDUCTED THIS WEEK. By process of
> elimination, that means Thursday -- Friday at the latest. The DOE will send
> a press advisory about 48 hours in advance of the test, and I will post it
> as soon as we get it. Please stay tuned as last minute problems have been
> know to delay DOE schedules. But, don't wait to do something positive...
>
> What you can do!!!
>
> 1. Call, fax or email your protest to the U.S. Department of Energy.
> Tri-Valley CAREs has posted a protest letter that you can use on its web
> site at http://www.igc.org/tvc Fax and email numbers are provided there.
>
> Special note re: emailing DOE: If you use the email link on our web page
> and your message gets returned to you (DOE says that address is open and
> working, but we have had some difficulty with messages being returned),
> please try this alternate address provided to us today by DOE headquarters
> . Or, send the message to both email addresses
> to ensure transmission.
>
> 2. Demonstrate in California, Nevada or New Mexico. In California, we will
> gather at NOON on the day of the test at the Bechtel Headquarters Building
> in San Francisco at 50 Beale Street, just off Market and near the
> Embarcadero BART Station. Bechtel manages the Nevada Test Site for DOE.
> Call Sally Light at Tri-Valley CAREs at (925) 443-7148 or (510) 527-2057
> for details. In Nevada, a vigil will be held on the day before the test at
> DOE offices in Las Vegas, and a demonstration will be held at the test site
> on the day of the test. Call Shundahai Network at (702) 647-3095 for info.
> In New Mexico, plans are in progress. Call Concerned Citizens for Nuclear
> Safety at (505) 986-1973 for information.
>
> WRITE LETTERS -- MAKE SIGNS -- SHOW UP -- BE A PRESENCE FOR PEACE AND A
> NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE WORLD. THANK YOU!!!
>
> Peace,
> Marylia
>
> Marylia Kelley
> Tri-Valley CAREs
> (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
> 2582 Old First Street
> Livermore, CA USA 94550
>
>  - is our web site, please visit us there!
>
> (925) 443-7148 - is our phone
> (925) 443-0177 - is our fax
>
> Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
> CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
> Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
> international Abolition 2000 network for the elimination of nuclear
> weapons.
>
> Save Ward Valley
> 107 F Street
> Needles, CA  92363
> ph. 760/326-6267
> fax 760/326-6268
>
> www.shundahai.org/SWVAction.html
> http://earthrunner.com/savewardvalley
> www.ctaz.com/~swv1
> http://banwaste.envirolink.org
> www.alphacdc.com/ien/wardvly4.html
> www.greenaction.org

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  Subject: 
         [aim] Black Mesa - Dine'h [Fwd: Fax Attack Re: Meeting with Pauline] 
    Date: 
         Mon, 07 Dec 1998 13:47:39 -0500 
    From: 
         Morning Star 
Reply-To: 
         aim@onelist.com
      To: 
         Native_Issues@onelist.com, FIRST_NATIONS@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM, aim@onelist.com




It's never too late to make an impact.  Please fax letters and, if
possible, make a phone call.  Thank you.

In Struggle,
Kathy



Subject: 
        Fax Attack Re: Meeting with Pauline 
  Date: 
        Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:04:54 -0800 (PST) 
  From: 
        Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon 
    CC: 
        Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon 


Please fax similar letters all day Monday Dec. 7th to (520) 774-1977 and
call them at (520) 779-2721 to pursuade their meeting on Tuesday Dec. 8th!

PO Box 11715
Eugene, OR 97440

                                                Christopher J. Bavasi,
                                                Executive Director
                                                US ONH Indian Relocation
                                                PO Box 201, 201 E Birch
                                                Flagstaff, AZ 86002

                                                December 7, 1998

Christopher J. Bavasi:

I urge you, as Executive Director of the United States Office of Navajo
Hopi Indian Relocation, to meet directly with Dine'h Elder Pauline
Whitesinger and other Dine'h non-signers of the Accommodation Agreement
December 8th at her homesite near the Wide Ruins-Sweet Water Canyon area
of the HPL in Arizona.  This I urge you to do at her request!

Ms. Whitesinger and others have received your 30-day notice to choose a
site on the "New Lands" for relocation housing, or sign a so-called
"Accommodation Agreement" lease contract, or face forcibly eviction.

Throughout this forced relocation program, these traditional Dine'h
(Navajo) have been left out of the decision-making process.  They are the
ones who have to live with the outcome of US government policy.  Meet with
and hear them!  Fulfill your trust responsibility to them on December 8th.

The United States has at times called relocation "voluntary" to counter
critism by US citizens, the international community and the United
Nations.  However, we have always known it to be forced and inhumane,
regardless of lease options or public relations campaigns.  The looming
threat to pick-a-site-while-you-still-can is nothing new, it is the same
coersive language used against the traditional Dine'h since PL 93-531
partitioned the former Joint Use Area.  This is the same coersive,
threatening language used to pursuade unwilling and fearful Dine'h into
signing away their sovereignty and religious rights under leases.

We demand that you meet with Pauline Whitesinger in a respectful way, open
to listening to her and to the other non-signers at her homesite Dec. 8th.
It is your moral and legal obligation to see that their needs are met,
their rights respected, and that NO HARM COME TO THESE PEOPLE!

We demand that you stop making threats of forced evictions and livestock
impoundments to these traditional Dine'h people!  We demand that you stop
the punitive and cruel measures against them designed to coerce their
removal for almost three decades: injunctions against building or
repairing their homes, water supply destruction, wood confiscation, sacred
site and burial destruction, and ceremonial interference.  Stop it!!

Your only choice at this point is to cease forced relocation tactics and
policies in your office and throughout the United States agencies and
governmental bodies.  Then, genuine efforts for restitution to those who
have suffered under this ordeal will be required.  If you do not comply,
notice will be sent and those responsible will be held accountable for
crimes against humanity.  We will see to it!

Sincerely,

Beth Newberry, chair
Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon