Akwesasne Notes vol. 1 no. 10

Akwesasne Notes vol. 1 no. 10

Akwesasne (N.Y.)--Newspapers.; Askwesasne Indian Reserve (Québec and Ont.)--Newspapers.; Franklin County (N.Y.)--Newspapers.; Indians of North America--Government relations--Newspapers.; Indians of North America--New York (State); Mohawk Indians--Newspapers.

Akwesasne Notes

UNO Libraries

1969

Jerry Gambill

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Akwesasne 1969 Volume 1 Number 10.pdf

1969-1996; 20th century

(P1) ‘Silent too damn long’ Alcatraz: Taken Back (San Francisco, CA); Political Cartoon “Alcatraz Trespassers Will Go To Jail” (San Francisco, CA); Graffiti Alcatraz Island “Warning Keep Off Indian Property.” (San Francisco, CA)

(P2) Alcatraz Gift To Indians Urged (San Diego, CA); Indians At Alcatraz Feast, Dance In Holiday Festival (San Francisco, CA); Paleface Idea: Alcatraz Indians Will Eat Turkey (San Francisco, CA); Photo “Alcatraz Occupiers”; Alcatraz ‘Powwow’ (San Francisco, CA); Electricians, Plumbers: Skilled Indians Rehabilitate Alcatraz (San Francisco, CA); Teepees to Alcatraz (Cuernavaca, Mexico)

(P3) Won’t Quit (Cornwall Island, Mohawk Nation); Editorial: The Indians were right (Redding, CA); Hopi Bridges Gap (Second Mesa, AZ); To All Those Who Think of Their Newspaper; Indian Studies Program at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)

(P4) Indians Demand Alcatraz be Cultural Centre (San Francisco, CA); Alcatraz Indians Dig In (San Francisco, CA); Officials to Meet on Alcatraz (San Francisco, CA); Jewish Group Helps Indians on Alcatraz (San Francisco, CA); ‘Rock’ Indians Dislike Tourists (San Francisco, CA); Photo Thanksgiving Feast Richard Oakes and Al Bridges far right (San Francisco, CA)

(P5) Remember Columbus: Uncle Tomahawk (San Francisco, CA); America Was Discovered at 2 O’Clock in Morning (San Francisco, CA); Photo San Quentin Pow-wow dance for prisoners (San Quentin, CA); Poem: The Downfall: Disease-Giver by Carlos Cortez (San Francisco, CA); San Quentin Reservation: Indian Day at Prison (San Quentin, CA); Gobbledygook (Lummi Nation, WA)

(P6) Indians—Request For Treaty Ratification: Question No. 1770 (Ottawa, Canada); There Is An Alternative? (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Battle For Crossing Rights (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Photos December 1968 Border Crossing Protest (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Indian Girl Takes Case to Minister (Cornwall, Ontario, Canada); Indian in N.B. Prison Ordered Deported, U.S. May Not Accept Him After Army Stint (Dorchester, New Brunswick, Canada); Vandalism Has Cost Custom House $3,000 (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation);

(P7) Indian Protests About Fence On His Property—Wants To Build Home (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Photo Akwesasne Mohawk Leaders Mike Mitchell and Ernst Benedict (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Mohawk Indian Cuts Fence To Allow Him Access To Property (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Stanley Island Issue Questioned In House (Stanley Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Photo Fence Cut by Mike Mitchell (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation); Photo Mike Mitchell Reasons With Detective Lucien Laroche (Cornwall Island, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation)

(P8) PEACE Causes Reservation War (Onondaga Reservation, NY); Indian Chief and Warder In Pickering Observance (Seneca Cattauragus and Allegany Reservations, NY, PN); SU Prof’s Idea: Indian Park (Onondaga Indian Nation, NY); Photo Pipe Ceremony 175th Anniversary Pickering Treaty J. Sheldon Fisher, Seneca Chief Running Big Bear or Harry Logan (Seneca Cattauragus and Allegany Reservations, NY, PN)

(P9) Poem: Lonely Warriors by R.A. Swanson (Richland, WA); Poem: An Indian Prayer by Tom Whitecloud (Onchiota, NY); Poem: Direction by A. Lopez (Tohono O’odham Nation, AZ); Poem: Untitled by Blaine Chartrand (Kwakuital First Nation); Poem: A North American Indian Prayer by Guy E. Calkins; Poem: Adjustments by Ronald Rogers; Story: The Girl Who Became An Eagle (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

(P10) Indian Books Review Deloria, Custer Died For Your Sins (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

(P11) ‘Custer’ Is a Tomahawk of a Book, Review Deloria, Custer Died For Your Sins (Utica, NY); Pulitzer Prize Winner N.S. Momaday, Talks: ‘Psychic Dislocation’ Problem (Washington, D.C.); Review of Potlatch by George Clutesi; Red Powerlessness, Review Deloria, Custer Died For Your Sins and Cahn, Our Brother’s Keeper (New York, NY)

(P12) Show Traces 2,700 Years of Canadian Native Art; Photo Birchbark Scroll (Ottawa, Canada); Photo Ermine Carving, Photo Harpoon Head; Photo Spindle Whorl, Photo Buffalo Effigy (All Photos, Ottawa, Canada)

(P13) Give The Ceremonials Back To The Indians (Gallup, NM)

(P14) If He Fails Responsibilities: Removal of Bruce Hinted (Albuquerque, NM); NCAI Denies Knowing Of Hilton Vandalism (Albuquerque, NM); An Editorial: Ceremonial Must Change (Gallup, NM); Law Is Upheld (Window Rock, AZ); Indian Education ‘Is Substandard’(Riverton, WY); Photo Protest Banner “Rent Your Friendly Indian From Hikel” (Albuquerque, NM)

(P15) Agnew, Hickel Detail Nixon Indian Policy: Indians Wary of Promises, Wait-and-See Attitude Adopted (Albuquerque, NM); Older Group Applauds: Younger Indians Jeer at Hickel At Hilton Speech (Albuquerque, NM); Photo Protester Kathika Madison with Sign “Custer had it Coming so will Hickel (Albuquerque, NM); Photo Walter Hickel; Photo Spiro Agnew; Navajo Project Passes Senate (Washington, D.C.); Money Will Cure Indian Problems, Leader Says (Albuquerque, NM)

(P16) Navajos Sue On Loan Act Enforcement (Navajo Nation); Indians of All Ages Listen Intently to Senators During Indian Congress Meeting; Photo Senator Edward Kennedy; Photo Ignacio Baca Sandia Pueblo; Photo Randy Kiackin Washington State; Photo Senator Joseph M. Montoya (Albuquerque, NM); Challenges Nixon Policies: Sen. Kennedy Details Plan To Bolster Status of Indians (Albuquerque, NM); Indian Parade (Albuquerque, NM); Photo Robert J. Bennett (Albuquerque, NM); Patricio Martinez Navajo Uranium Discovery 1949 (Grants, NM)

(P17) Exploitation in the Alberta Beet Fields (Taber, Lethbridge, Picture Butte, Alberta, Canada); Photo Child Labor: Beet Workers; Indian Affairs Buys Image (Ottawa, Canada)

(P18) Advertisement Harold Cardinal The Unjust Society; Photo Harold Cardinal; Why Indians Fear Cultural Genocide by Harold Cardinal (Ottawa, Canada)

(P19) Stark Warning To Ottawa: Canada’s Indians Rise In Anger (Ottawa, Canada); Political Cartoon: Harold Cardinal with book as Department of Indian Affairs White Papers Steps on his Head (Ottawa, Canada); Panthers Stirring Up Indians?; Chretien Says Indians Worried About Security of Their Land (Ottawa, Canada); Whoa! Canadians Rebuff U.S. Posse (Walpole Island First Nation Reserve); Minority Help Pledged (London, UK)

(P20) Medical Staff to Study Cree (Winnipeg, Manitoba); Photo David Nanowin; Photo Health Minister John Munro and Frank Howard Indian Health; Disturbed by Indian Death Rate, Munro May Boost Health Services (Ottawa, Canada); Chretien Sees Flexibility in Health, Welfare Talks (Victoria, British Columbia); Indians Need Understanding (Ottawa, Canada)

(P21) Drug Scarcity Cuts Care in Indian Hospitals (Washington, D.C.); Hospital Heads Take Issue on Some Details (Oklahoma City, OK); Agnes, 101, Fought Indians (New York, NY); Ponca Stirring Big Controversy (White Eagle, OK); Photo Martha Grass (White Eagle, OK)

(P22) Penobscot Indian Is Deputy Commissioner: James H. Murphy New Indian Dept. Head (Augusta, ME); Planning New Dept. Policy; Photo James H. Murphy (Augusta, ME); Deer Isle Principal Refuses To Admit Two Indian Boys Who Won’t Cut Hair (Big Cove Reserve, New Brunswick, Canada); Photo of John Francis, John Hatch, and Philip Francis (Big Cove Reserve, New Brunswick, Canada)

(P23) Seek Use of Bar Harbor Center: Indians to Open Own School (Acadia National Park, ME; Propaganda Lesson Antagonizes Indians (Milwaukee, WI); Programs Tailored: East Prep Schools Woo U.S. Indians (Lennox, MA)

(P24-25) The War Between The Redskins And the Feds by Vine Deloria, Jr. (Albuquerque, NM); Photo Indian Bumper Stickers and Indian Power Button (San Francisco, CA); Photo Wooden Militant Indian Syracuse Conference (Syracuse, NY)

(P25) Genocide Charge Stirs Brazilians (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)

(P26) Interior Chief is Friend of Big Oil (Washington, D.C.); Robbing the Eskimos Kotzebue, AK); Map of Leased Lands in Alaska Concession Area (Northern Alaska); Bidders, Bankers Awaiting Alaska Oil: Alaska Oil Poses Environmental Questions

(P27) Oil Brings Alaska Millions: Native Land Robbery (Anchorage, AK); Political Cartoon: Alaska’s Oil Boom American Indian talking to Inuit (Alaska); Alaska Natives and Mineral Rights (Washington, D.C.); Photo Protest in Anchorage over oil Lands (Anchorage, AK); Slogan: America runs on oil…our business is your business;

(P28) Oklahoma Indian Takes On Welfare Department (Colcord, OK); KIVA Club Presses For Program (Albuquerque, NM); Photo Conroy Chino of KIVA Club (Albuquerque, NM); A Different Ceremonial (Gallup, NM); SCAR Grants Scholarship (Boulder, CO); Representatives Named (Albuquerque, NM); The Drama At Tsa-La-Gi (Tahlequah, OK); Preamble (Albuquerque, NM)

(P29) Address by Robert L. Bennett to Union of Ontario Indians; Indian Women Protest New Indian Policy (Toronto, Canada); Frederick Plain Elected President Union of Ontario Indians (Toronto, Canada); Early Lenni Lenape Religious Beliefs by Big White Owl Jasper Hill (Toronto, Canada; Quotation Tecumseh, 1811 (Toronto, Canada)

(P30) Indian Policy: Soft Sell Used to Defuse Volatile Atmosphere (Ottawa, Canada); Band Councils to Get Grants (Ottawa, Canada); Strom Waits for Indians to Approve Federal Plan (Calgary, Alberta, Canada); Press Barred (Middleport, Ontario, Canada); Indian Unit Asks $1,280,000 (Ottawa, Canada); Manitoba Indians New Deal (Ottawa, Canada); Political Cartoon Chretien New Indian Policy as Ten Commandments (Ottawa, Canada); Indians Get More For Their Money (Ottawa, Canada)

(P31) Chretien Clears Air On Indians (Ottawa, Canada); Indian Policy Found Wanting (Ottawa, Canada); Political Cartoon of Crusaders (Ottawa, Canada); The Indian Policy (Toronto, Canada)

(P32) ‘Cultural Genocide’ Charged by Indians (Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada); Continuance Sought of Reserve System (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada); Indians Buck White Paper (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); Rewrite Indian Policy, Liberal Thinkers Told (Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada); Indian Policy (Montreal, Canada); Ontario Urges Ottawa Talks with Indians (Ottawa, Canada); Political Cartoon: Chretien and Trudeau Tied to Fiery Post Negotiating Treaty (Toronto, Canada)

(P33) Indians Arrested in Fray (Ridgeville, South Carolina); Project Jim Thorpe (Carlisle, PN); Indian Short Story Awards Contest Set (Washington, D.C.); Indians Claim Rights Denied (Berkeley, CA); Bruce’s Speech (Albuquerque, NM); Indians Must Pay State Tax, Judge Declares (St. Johns, AZ); Poem: Proud Navajo by Kee Bitsui (Navajo Nation); Students to Study American Indians (Canton, NY); Ex-Indian Affairs Boss Gets U Post (Albuquerque, NM); Editorial: Navajo Religion Praised (Norman, OK); Photo: Beautify Navajoland (Navajo Nation)

(P34) Pueblo Dwellers Are Seeking Greater Power: New Mexico Indians Ask Bigger Voice on the Schools Hope to Break Hold of White Leaders in Isolated Area (Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM); Thrive at High Altitudes (Lima, Peru); Rights Suit Filed by Pueblo Indians: Discrimination in Schools is Charged in New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM); Photo: Diego Rosette, Governor Santo Domingo Pueblo; Vernon Jackson, 51, Led Oregon Indians (Portland, OR)

(P35) Taos Indians Fight for Return of Lands (Taos, NM); Photo: Taos Governor Lupe Sandoval display canes King Charles V and Abraham Lincoln (Taos, NM); Photo: Ruins of St. Jerome Mission (Taos, NM); Photo: Taos Pueblo (Taos, NM)

(P36) Jail Conditions Unchanged For More Than A Decade (Gallup, NM); Bias Alleged in Gallup Facility (Gallup, NM); Navajo Press Group Discussed (Shiprock, NM); Cited in McKinley County: Welfare ‘Racism’ (Washington, D.C.); Ceremonial Group Hires Law Firm (Gallup, NM)

(P37) Fruitlands Museum (Harvard, MA); Photo: Pumunongwet Statue (Harvard, MA); 1000 Years B.C. Theorize N.E. Inhabited by Mediterranean Culture (North Salem, NH); ‘Stone Age’ Tribe (New York, NY); Rock Carvings Wear (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada); 24,000-Year-Old Skull Reported Found in Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico); Photo: War Club of King Phillip Metacom (Harvard, MA)

(P38) Anglican Stand on Indian Policy Gets Little Response (Toronto, Canada); Synod “Deeply Perturbed” (Toronto, Canada); Slogan: The Continuing Search For Indian Self-Determination

(P39) The Christians of Oglala: Their Priest Uses Indian Peace Pipe As Our Lord Used the Pasch As A Symbol of Fulfillment (Pine Ridge Reservation, SD); Photo Priest with Pipe in Church (Pine Ridge Reservation, SD)

(P40) Anglican Missionary for 17 Years: Indian Hostility Blamed on Cultural Poverty (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); Church Council Pressed: Indians Seek Welfare Slice (Detroit, MI); Beyond Taplines (Toronto, Canada); Indians Test State Laws (Bayfield and Burnett Counties, Wisconsin); Photo: Dennis Banks Addressed Church Council; Chretien Urges Firms Drop Prejudice (Yellowknife, Northwest Territory, Canada); Indian Crusade Rolls On (Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada); Carpet Factory Using Indian Labor A Success (St. Louis, MO); 1.46 Million to Help Educate Indian Children (Cardston, Alberta, Canada)

(P41) Indians Talk of Revolution (Six Nations Reserve, Canada); Reject Federal Policy: Iroquois Reaffirm Independence (Toronto, Canada); Asks Indian Confederacy Drop Independence (Brantford, Canada); Ontario Indians Say They Plan to Secede From Canadian Rule: Six Nations Band Tells U.N. It Is Tired of Waiting for An Acceptable Commissioner (Ottawa, Canada); Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Kahnawake Reserve, Canada)

(P42) Indians Must Now Wait Until Spring To Try for School Board (Albany, NY); S.L.U., Reservation Tutoring Project (Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, NY); Orange Girders in Sky: Indian Steelworkers Find Bank Job Like Working on Sidewalk (New York, NY); Photo Indian Ironworkers on National Bank of Northern New York Building (New York, NY)

(P43) Who Is The Savage? (Rapid City, SD); On Farrar (Pierre, SD); Prison Is A Place (Rapid City, SD); Poem: Untitled, James Warwick (St. Joseph, MO); Political Cartoon: Paddle East We’ll Reach the Indies

(P44) Pennsylvania: Heritage of the Damned (Pasadena, CA)

(P45) What about Indian Demands on Hickel for Alcatraz site? (San Francisco, CA); Invasion Continues (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Unidentified Alcatraz Indians of All Tribes Activists (San Francisco, CA); Native Americans Occupy Alcatraz Island (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Richard Oakes and Dean Chavers at Alcatraz Press Conference (San Francisco, CA)

(P46) Alcatraz: Indian War (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Unknown Native girl on Alcatraz (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Unknown Native child on Alcatraz (San Francisco, CA); The Indians Were the Victims of Earlier Ones: Alcatraz ‘Invaders’ Know all About Pinkville (San Francisco, CA)

(P47) Massacre at Wounded Knee: Young Indian Triggered Butchery by U.S. Army Cavalry (Wounded Knee, SD); Akwesasne Man Alcatraz President (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Richard and Anne Oakes Alcatraz Island (San Francisco, CA); Geronimo! Bow and Arrows Turn Back N. Viet Attack (Phuoc Binh, Vietnam); Photo: Chief Spotted Elk Killed at Wounded Knee (Wounded Knee, SD); Worst Massacre since 1890 (My Lai, Vietnam); Vietnam Produces New Breed of Gunfighter (Da Nang, Vietnam)

(P48) Photo: Thomas Hannon and Richard Oakes on Alcatraz Island (San Francisco, CA); Photo: IAT members Fishing on Alcatraz (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Coast Guard Boat Alcatraz Occupation (San Francisco, CA); (Photo: Unknown Mother and Children in Alcatraz Main Cellblock (San Francisco, CA); Indians at Alcatraz Blockaded (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Boat approaching Alcatraz with Occupiers (San Francisco, CA); Photo: Helping newcomers onto Alcatraz Island to join the Occupation (San Francisco, CA)