tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186105462024-03-20T04:35:09.259-07:00Winnemem Wintu - The Journey to JusticeAlso, visit our Tribal webpage at <a href="http://www.winnememwintu.us"> www.winnememwintu.us</a>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-42804794163018458802011-06-02T08:25:00.000-07:002011-06-02T08:27:02.216-07:00Special Rapporteur statement on Water at UNPFII<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Statement to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Catarina de Albuquerque, Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">24 May 2011</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you for the invitation to speak here today. This is the first time that I am appearing before this esteemed body and I am honoured to be among such distinguished participants.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been working on the mandate on the rights to water and sanitation since 2008, when this mandate was established. During that time, I have had the occasion to be in touch with numerous indigenous peoples’ organizations, not only through my country missions, but also through other meetings and correspondence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like in with so many other human rights, indigenous peoples suffer disproportionate violations of their rights to water and sanitation. The people in this room are no doubt well aware of this reality. Today I would like to speak about the types of violations which have been raised with me in my capacity as Special Rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation. I would like to touch upon some of the measures that we can take to address these violations, and finally, I would like to talk about human rights more broadly and how the human rights framework can be used to analyse the special relationship that indigenous people have to and with water.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nearly a billion people in the world do not have access to an improved water source. Many more do not have access to safe water. Over 2.5 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation facilities. The numbers demonstrate to us that we are facing a true crisis. However, beyond the enormous numbers, we must constantly ask -- who does not have access and why? In my work, I have seen that it is always the same people who are excluded. It is the marginalized, the poor, those without political voice. In the countries that have indigenous populations, too frequently, it is also these communities who do not have access to water and sanitation. Such lack of access is not simply an unfortunate situation nor a coincidence, but it is a direct result of policies and politics which exclude certain segments of the population.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My very first country visit in 2009 was to Costa Rica. I examined numerous issues related to water and sanitation there, giving also attention to the situation of indigenous people. Let us recall that Costa Rica is on track to meet the MDGs on water and sanitation, which is certainly commendable. However, I was dismayed by the lack of attention towards improving the situation of indigenous peoples. The vast majority of indigenous peoples living in the 24 reserves in the country do not have access to safe drinking water or sanitation services, compared with nearly universal access in urban areas and very high access rates in other rural areas. Hence I was concerned about the country’s focus on the “general” positive trend in providing access to water and sanitation to the “overall” population, while overlooking the fact that specific, targeted and deliberate policies and measures are needed to make sure that progress also reaches the excluded segments of the population, including the indigenous people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Special Rapporteur, I also regularly receive information about threats to indigenous rights, including especially concerns about pollution of water sources. For example, I have received numerous reports about the impact of mining operations -- from uranium mining in the US to bauxite mining in India -- indigenous peoples are seeing severe impacts on their access to clean water, as well as on their way of life and culture. Projects to generate new sources of energy, such as dams and geothermal exploration, have also been reported to me as having a serious impact on access to clean water for indigenous peoples.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the people in this room know well, indigenous peoples often have a special or even spiritual relationship with water. I witnessed this special bond when I visited the Winnemen Wintu tribe in California a couple of months ago. This tribe uses the local river -- the McCloud River -- for spiritual and ceremonial purposes. For example, they hold the puberty ceremony, which honours the coming of age for young women who have to swim across the river and joins tribal dancers as a full-fledged woman. However, the area used has been turned into a recreational campground serviced by the United States Forest Services, where the presence of tourists, campers and boaters challenges the privacy and dignity of the young women undergoing the ceremony, as well as the continuation of tribal practices.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The activism of indigenous communities has been crucial in bringing these situations to light. This Forum is indeed one opportunity to expose these human rights violations and pressure Governments to ensure that indigenous rights are full protected. The past year has also seen groundbreaking litigation in Botswana by the Basarwa concerning their right to water. The Basarwa had been denied access to a borehole which they had been using for decades as part of an attempt to get them to move out of the game reserve where they had been livng even before its designation as a reserve. This decision was very important not only adding to jurisprudence protecting indigenous rights to remain on their ancestral lands, but also further solidifying the status of the right to water under international law. The court referred to the recent General Assembly resolution on the right to water and sanitation, and found that denying the Basarwa permission to use, at their own expense, the borehole located on the land where they resided amounted to degrading treatment – which is prohibited, inter alia, in the Convention Against Torture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am very excited about this case, for many reasons. But most of all because the Court very wisely observed the indivisibility of human rights. Talking about water, traditionally considered an “economic, social and cultural right,” in the same breath as degrading treatment, generally known as a “civil and political right.” I think that too often we lose sight of the indivisibility of human rights. And especially for indigenous people, we need consider enjoyment of human rights in a holistic way. This holistic understanding is crucial for analysing indigenous rights and the right to water and sanitation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The right to water and sanitation provides that everyone should have access to sufficient, safe, affordable and acceptable water and sanitation for personal and domestic uses. With regard to water, this means water for drinking, cooking, washing clothes and dishes, and basic personal hygiene. Water for agriculture falls under the rubric of the right to food. And water for cultural and spiritual life comes within the understanding of cultural rights, as well as specific rights guaranteed to indigenous peoples. Clearly, these lines get blurred all the time, and individuals do not categorize their water uses into these rigid categories. To understand the individual experience, and the loss of dignity which can occur when access to water is denied, we must take a holistic view.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As you may know, my mandate is part of a larger system called the special procedures system. We are experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to examine specific themes related to human rights. James Anaya, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, who was here last week, is also part of this system. But there are also other experts, on the right to food, the right to health, the right to education, on torture, on arbitrary detention, and so on. You have probably been in touch with these mandates. We have the capacity to work jointly to raise concern about situations of violations of indigenous peoples rights. What I see when I receive information related to water and indigenous peoples is that it very often also concerns many other mandates. When violations of the right to water are being experienced, sadly, a host of other deprivations and violations are also reported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like to conclude by encouraging people fighting for indigenous peoples rights to continue to engage with the international human rights system - including the system of special procedures, as well as the treaty bodies and the Universal Periodic Review. I express my full support to activism at the national and regional levels as well. I know the sense of frustration that many of you might feel in the interaction with these bodies. They don’t react as quickly and as efficiently as you would hope. Their impact is not as pronounced as you would wish. Rest reasured, because I feel the same! However, these efforts are crucial for ending ongoing violations of indigenous peoples rights, including those rights related to water, and to improving their enjoyment of all human rights. The fact that things are hard, the circumstance that sometimes we do not see the light at the end of the tunnel is no reason for giving up. On the contrary. As my favourite Portuguese Poest, Pessoa, once put it”Stones on the path? I collect them all. One day I will build a castle”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am looking forward to the discussion, and thank you again for having invited me to participate today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-33384709379696111172011-05-23T13:00:00.000-07:002011-05-23T13:00:41.437-07:00UNFPII-10 Agenda Item 4 (a): Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP). To include un-recognized / unrepresented peoples, maternal rights, hydropower, borders and border militarization.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> This statement we wrote up was not read as written. I think it should be read as a statement by the tribe regarding these important issues. Thank you to Mariana Francisco for the piece on Maternal rights and NAIPC for the piece on Borders.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">UNFPII-10 Agenda Item 4 (a): Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP). </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">To include un-recognized / unrepresented peoples, maternal rights, hydropower, borders and border militarization.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Recognizing that the implementation of the DRIP is a final step of the multi-year process of discussion, negotiation and final approval by member states including the final Member, the United States in 2010 <span> </span></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Affirming that, while great excitement rose in the indigenous nations around the world at its inaugural release, the actual implementation of the many articles of the Declaration have become contentious points where the true spirit of the Declaration, diluted and molded to meet narrow definitions of compliance of the member states responsible for enactment, is now a problem, </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Affirming further that one of the main obstacles to full implementation is the continued observance by some member states of the principles included in the “Doctrine of Discovery” and <span class="apple-style-span"><span>The Inter Caetera, Papal Bull of May 4, 1493</span></span>,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=18610546#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Concerned that if these directives are not actively pursued for revocation as guiding principles by the member states in order that the precepts of the DRIP are implemented without further interference, </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Further noting that the following issues: </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1) Relative to un-recognized/unrepresented Indigenous people, </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2) Those associated with Maternal Rights, </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3) Pertaining to the development hydropower dams and the related taking and/or loss of Indigenous homelands, and </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4) The more recent escalation of issues pertinent to more strident border enforcement and the militarization of border areas are major issue areas where the implementation of the DRIP, is of utmost urgency, </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Submit that this intervention raises the issues sited, to the forefront for thorough scrutiny with the caveat that it is in no way presented as an indictment of member States or of any one particular geographic area over another. It is solely an appraisal of the issues and an issuance, from the global indigenous community, of recommended actions and solutions to the problem areas identified.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Referring to the issue of Un-recognized / Un-represented Indigenous People, it is recommended that:</span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Article 33.1 of the UN DRIP posits, “Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions...” Therefore, it is recommended that all states respect the rights of all indigenous peoples to self identify based on their traditional home territory or area of forced relocation as the case may be. (art 8 2b/c)</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The UN ECOSOC advises all signatory states that the DRIP does not differentiate between indigenous peoples. Recognized or unrecognized statuses are not terms of art in the DRIP. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Reaffirm to States that differentiating between indigenous peoples violates the following items from the DRIP preamble: “Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind.” Further, “Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self-determination, exercise in conformity with international law.”</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>4)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The UN ECOSOC also advises the United States, specifically, that the current practice of differentiating amongst indigenous peoples is a form of discrimination that is inconsistent with the basic tenets of the UN DRIP, which applies to all indigenous peoples without regard to State determinations. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>5)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">That State constitutions meet the standards in the UN DRIP for all indigenous peoples.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>6)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The UN Permanent Forum consider the inclusion and active and full participation of unrecognized, unrepresented Indigenous Peoples in United Nations activities including, but not limited to the Permanent Forum. Funding to implement this recommendation should be open to all requests for assistance regardless of State sanctioned status.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>7)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The UN ECOSOC remind States that full implementation of the UN DRIP, particularly Article 28 section 1 and 2, requires that States are accountable for prevention and redress of cultural genocide.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>8)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Permanent Forum commission a study on indigenous peoples in the US with a focus on the conditions and treatment of unrecognized indigenous peoples.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Regarding the issue of Maternal Rights, it is recommended that:</span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Re-affirming Article 7 of the DRIP on the rights of Indigenous Peoples to “life, physical and mental integrity…” as well as the right to live in “freedom, peace and security…”<span> </span>and not be “subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence…”. And further reaffirming Article 8(2)a and Article 9 in that IP should not be discriminated against for the exercise of their right to live within their own traditions and customs it is recommended that the UNPFII in ensuring the implementation of the DRIP acknowledge the following statement regarding Maternal Rights:</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span> </span>“The natural maternal right in a healthy environment will provide a harmonious and complete existence through the good practice of relationship and respect with our mother earth. Such right is conducted and directed through the knowledge of the maternal cosmovision. The maternal right has been in the darkness, is invisible before the practices of genocide by the government states, and has caused a physical, mental and psychological damage in both mother and child. The government state has permitted the criminal activity and narco-traffic and it is not given any value to nor recognized maternal rights. The maternal right can be an alternative for the social peace and order that we are always looking for.”</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Article 36.1 states “Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes…”</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">In Reference to Borders and Border Militarization, it is recommended </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">that the statement of the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus be included in toto:</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">On February 5, 2011, President Obama and Prime Minister Harper announced negotiations aimed at sweeping away obstructions to trade while integrating efforts to deter “criminals” and “terrorists” regarding Canada and U.S. border management. Indigenous Peoples in North America are divided physically, culturally, socially and economically by artificial borders maintained under the guise of “homeland security.” The Eurocentric primacy of ‘security’ discriminates against the ability of Indigenous Peoples to maintain their historical cultural, social and economic relationships.<span> </span>Indigenous Peoples also have rights to peace and security as set out under the UN Charter. The NAIPC recommends the UNPFII to urge the Governments of Canada and the United States to work with the Indigenous Peoples to ensure respect for the Jay Treaty and UNDRIP Article 36 in the context of Canada-US Beyond the Border Working Group discussions.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Additionally the following points are raised for inclusion and action:</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Western Hemispheric Travel Initiative has displaced the Indigenous peoples and increased violence and drug trafficking, affected tribal nations around California, Texas and Arizona, and, as in many areas around the globe has increased the military presence in border areas. Article 36 and Article 30, sections 1 and 2,<span> </span>address the issue as these areas refer to lands seized or ceded but still contain areas of cultural and spiritual significance to the Indigenous peoples;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Indigenous people stopped from crossing borders where there are contiguous tribal land areas (whether housing or sacred/ceremonial use lands) have their rights under the DRIP violated;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The safety and security of women and children is in jeopardy and some are jailed. Indigenous people are assaulted in these areas as a result of the failure of Member states to follow the basic tenets and spirit of the DRIP;</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>4)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>Article 36 referring to those “…divided by international borders…” becomes more important in regions affected by developments post-world war, and those where border wars still occur. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>5)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Final Report of the Permanent Forum 2010, paragraph 98, the Forum commented and urged members to address border issues and take effective measures to implement article 36. It is strongly recommended that the Forum obtain said report to update the people on the progress of the action item cited in Paragraph 98.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Referring to the issue of Hydropower, it is recommended that:</span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Indigenous people worldwide are targeted by development of dams and the changing waterways of the Worlds Rivers. Indigenous peoples are rarely if ever consulted prior to the development of projects of this nature and surely are sorely if at all compensated. More and more the world has become aware of exterminations and genocide of Indigenous peoples far from public view for the taking of homelands and areas of cultural heritage for flooding or private, corporate development. Article 10 clearly states that Indigenous peoples shall “not be forcibly removed from their lands…” and that “… no relocation shall take place without free, prior, informed consent…” and “after agreement on just and fair compensation…” </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The rights of Indigenous peoples to access traditional places, protections of waters and tribal lands, and the ability to continue the traditional lifeway as well as the principle of self-determination (Articles pertaining include:10, 25,28,29,31) need to be reinforced and reported on as to compliance by Member States of these basic, human, rights and sureties.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Final Recommendations</span></b></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">It is hereby believed that these recommendations may require </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Member States to engage in Constitutional change to include their Indigenous peoples, (those recognized or not and whose representation today is limited at best).</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span> </span>It will require a remapping of the lands of the Indigenous so that it is included accurately within the boundaries of the Member State.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">It is further believed that </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">There will be a need for a reporting mechanism to report on what Member States have undertaken in their pursuit of implementing the DRIP. This is important in areas where a Member State’s indigenous people have been forced to relocate or have migrated due to self-survival.</span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span>2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span> </span>Each agency that works with or is responsible to ensure Indigenous peoples rights need to report on their progress and that consultation with the Special Rapporteur is conducted by the next gathering of the Forum following acceptance of this recommendation.</span></div><div><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="edn1"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=18610546#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: 8pt;">Papal Bulls of the 15th century gave Christian explorers the right to claim lands they "discovered" and lay claim to those lands for their Christian Monarchs. Any land that was not inhabited by Christians was available to be "discovered", claimed, and exploited. If the "pagan" inhabitants could be converted, they might be spared. If not, they could be enslaved or killed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;">The Discovery Doctrine is a concept of public international law expounded by the United States Supreme Court in a series of decisions, initially in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.doctrineofdiscovery.org/johnvmac.htm" target="mainFrame">Johnson v. M'Intosh in<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://www.doctrineofdiscovery.org/johnvmac.htm" target="_parent">1823</a>. The doctrine was Chief Justice John Marshall's explanation of the way in which colonial powers laid claim to newly discovered lands during the Age of Discovery. Under it, title to newly discovered lands lay with the government whose subjects discovered new territory. The doctrine has been primarily used to support decisions invalidating or ignoring aboriginal possession of land in favor of colonial or post-colonial governments.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;">John Marshall, who is most credited with describing the doctrine, did not voice wholehearted support of the doctrine even while using it to justify judicial decisions. He pointed to the doctrine as simple fact, looking at the possession-takings, which had been supported by it as things, which had occurred and had to be recognized. The supposedly inferior character of native cultures was a reason for the doctrine having been used, but whether or not that was justified was not relevant for Marshall.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8pt;">This Doctrine governs United States Indian Law today and has been cited as recently as 2005 in the decision City Of Sherrill V. Oneida Indian Nation Of N.Y.</span><br />
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</div></div></div>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-49423597753850029252011-05-23T12:46:00.000-07:002011-05-23T12:51:13.150-07:00Submission from the Winnemem Wintu Tribe on UNFPII-10 Agenda Item 7: Half Day on Water Presented by Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief and Spiritual LeaderSubmission from the Winnemem Wintu Tribe on UNFPII-10<br />
Agenda Item 7: Half Day on Water<br />
Presented by Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief and Spiritual Leader<br />
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Hestum chaleetun. Ne-to yet Kaa-aktus. Nees Tłheet. Teen teen iyeebaada lenda-mis eelawee Winnemem Wintu. Sawal miiyo mes baales bom, pee ha-t bohaa Wintun Tot.<br />
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Good afternoon Madame Chairperson, Members of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and esteemed colleagues. My name is Caleen Sisk-Franco and I am the hereditary traditional Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe.<br />
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Sawal mem. Sawal suuhana. Water is sacred. Water is life. Water is a great spiritual being. We are a water people. We come from a sacred spring and are the keepers of the water in our River and of all of the things that rely on that watershed out to the ocean. We understand that all things are connected. Nothing survives without water.<br />
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We understand and articulate our human rights to include the right to protect traditional cultural properties for our future generations. The water in our river, the water in our sacred spring, and the water we need to supply our homes are basic to our human rights and we must pass these down to our children and grandchildren. The water in our spring and river is part of our ceremonial practices. It provides the environment for our sacred salmon that holds our world together.<br />
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Providing access to water is not sufficient however. Water, the veins of Mother Earth, connected to everything, has needs too. Water needs our songs and ceremonies. It needs to flow freely. It needs our salmon swimming in it to clean it and to distribute nutrients to the rivers and streams and back to the ocean.<br />
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For us, salmon are inseparable from water. Both are necessary elements of our survival. We believe that when the last salmon is gone the people will be gone too. We know that salmon are the ultimate climate changers. Without salmon swimming in our waters the climate will continue to change in ways that will be devastating to mother earth. We need our traditional homelands and our homelands, including our water, need us to do the job we were put here to do.<br />
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We, like many indigenous peoples around the world, are being denied our human rights to access without interruption, sing to, use, and protect our water. The denial of our tribal existence by the US government leaves us without the basic protections we deserve. For us to achieve our indigenous rights and responsibilities to our water the US must reverse its discriminatory practices that have created two classes of American Indians.<br />
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We call on the Permanent Forum to:<br />
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<ul><li> Again transmit your recommendation from the 3rd session, Item 82, “that Governments conduct studies on how the diversion of rivers and creation of dams, mining and mineral extraction, energy development, the mining of groundwater and the use of aquifers for industrial and commercial purposes will affect the lives of indigenous communities prior to conducting any of these actions in order to ensure that indigenous peoples are not confronted with such problems as increasing scarcity of freshwater, the toxic contamination of indigenous peoples’ territories and the lack of access of indigenous communities and other life forms to water, including oceans.” Further, the Permanent Forum should clarify that such studies should be conducted prior to modification of any existing projects.</li>
<li> Again transmit your recommendation from the 4th Session, item 29, that, “immediate steps be taken within the framework of the Commission on Sustainable Development to protect water from privatization and from bilateral and multilateral governmental agreements and other incursions that affect the integrity of waters and impoverish communities, particularly indigenous women.”</li>
<li> To urge Member States to implement the findings of the Special Rapporteur on Human Right to Water and Sanitation.</li>
<li> Call for a study to educate people about the number of contaminated streams, springs, rivers, groundwater, dams, and reservoirs, etc. with recommendations to return waters to natural, clean status.</li>
<li> Urge the US to fully implement the Declaration for all American Indians to assure their ability to exercise their indigenous rights to water.</li>
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<div class="MsoBodyText">I was going through some old letters Grams had wanted us to send and this one from 2001 stuck out like a sore thumb. Seems like in the past 10 years we would have been able to garner enough support to have our continually elected "representatives" move our case forward. These are the same concerns written of in the 1889 letter to President Benjamin Harrison. I present it to you again.</div><div class="MsoBodyText"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText">Florence V. Jones, Spiritual Leader of the Traditional Winnemem Band of Wintu Indians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This statement made to announce her feelings regarding the recognition of the Traditional Winnemem Band of Wintu by the U.S. Government.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Florence V. Jones believes that the Winnemem Wintu people are in need of protection for their sacred sites and for the perpetuation of their ceremonies and traditional ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has always indicated that the Winnemem Wintu have been led by “hand me down to hand me down” through the generations to her and her successor and great niece, Caleen Sisk-Franco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Florence is a direct descendent of the last great chiefs of the Winnemem Wintu: Norelputis, Dolikentilema (her grand father), Dolikentilema (her father William Curl), Jenny Curl, herself and now Caleen Sisk-Franco.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is for this reason that Florence feels it important to state her opinion of the status of the Winnemem Wintu and their continued struggle for recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primarily, Florence believes that all Wintu are “her people” This includes those Wintu far to the south and to the west of the McCloud River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, she also believes that the times have changed and with the state of the country as it is each group should decide how they operate and survive in the current world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She continues to pray for all the Wintu, but believes that her ceremonies and her sacred places need to have a special protection that only separate recognition for the Traditional Winnemem Band of Wintu will be able to secure.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Over the past 12 years, Florence has directed the keepers of her ceremony to take on several challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first of these was in 1990 when she directed Caleen Sisk-Franco to undergo a fast on the site of the Toyon-Wintu Center to attain recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fast lasted 21 days, brought the issue of the Wintu as a whole to the attention of the United States government, and generated assurances that a remedy would soon follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This fast preceded her directive for the Winnemem to contact the timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, to obtain easements to allow access and protection to sacred sites on Salt Mountain (aka Cold Spring Mountain) for the Traditional Winnemem Wintu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The keepers of her ceremony, with the legal assistance of Claire Cummings, succeeded in this task and hold easements in the name of the Winnemem Wintu for those sites.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In 1993, Florence again directed her ceremony keepers to undergo a fast, again for recognition and the restoration of health benefits for the Winnemem band and the general Wintu population at large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fast begun by Mark Franco and Richard Wilson, occurred simultaneously with a trip made by Florence, Caleen and a contingent of Wintu people to Washington DC where she spoke with Ada Deer, then assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This trip again was for the benefit of the Winnemem and the general Wintu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon obtaining assurances from the government that our health care programs remained intact, Florence cancelled the fast.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In 1998, Florence directed her successors to increase their efforts for recognition of the Winnemem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This followed the deaths of our elders: Emerson Miles, Calvin Sisk, Leona Barnes and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that time, we have diligently performed our tasks making numerous trips nationwide in an attempt to obtain recognition for the Winnemem and the general Wintu people.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Florence is now 93 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has again been our beacon of strength and our direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has now told us to work for the Winnemem Wintu as a separate Traditional band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is our charge and our direction.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Florence has told us to pursue the following course of action:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Separate from the people who do not carry the traditions, attend ceremony or attend to the sacred places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The direction she receives from Olelbes has indicated that this is necessary to preserve the lineage of spiritual leaders and the connection they have to all the sacred sites of the Winnemem.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Direct our attention to the management of our lands in the best way that will preserve them in the face of economic and societal change.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Maintain the ceremonies for the Winnemem and bring our young people up in the spirituality of the Winnemem Wintu, forsaking allegiance to other religions and faiths: Winnemem is the faith of her people.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Direct the operations of the Traditional Winnemem Band of Wintu in the traditional way, meaning that the Traditional Winnemem will follow the “hand me down to hand me down” line of succession for leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the cause for her to wish our separation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The traditional way of leadership does not set well with many people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who do not follow the traditional way cannot be leaders of those who do.</li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">At our Spring Ceremony along the McCloud River, Florence told the people “Those who do not believe in (her) the Winnemem way, should leave, and go over the hill.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told us all that it is time for the Winnemem to move forward, not for her, but for the little ones who are there to assume their places in the traditional Winnemem world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She believes that all Wintu bands deserve recognition and indicates that we will all work for the better good, however, the Winnemem must move in the direction the spiritual have indicated.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is for this reason we write to you, the people of the United States and ask your help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need your support to re-affirm our tribal status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please write to California’s legislators - Congressman Wally Herger, Senator Barbara Boxer, and Senator Diane Feinstein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let them know that we are not alone in this country and that you hear our voice. It is with your help that we may go forward.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Under One Sky,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Mark Franco<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Caleen Sisk-Franco Florence V. Jones</div>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-7983994923882793932011-04-22T12:13:00.000-07:002011-04-22T12:16:18.314-07:00April 16, 1942 - Wick and Crow burnt my house down.......<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">1942 Journal of Florence Curl (Jones) describing the burning of her family cabins on the McCloud by Frank Crowe and Wixom, BOR construction men responsible for building the dam and removing the Indians. Sad that the BOR refuses to acknowledge that this actually happened.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-89322776324080830092011-04-06T07:01:00.000-07:002011-04-06T07:01:15.416-07:00Dancing Salmon Home Update from Will Doolittle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(209, 209, 209); margin: 0px 30px; padding: 15px; text-align: left; width: 570px;"><tbody>
<tr><td colspan="3" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-weight: bold;">Posted By:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Will Doolittle</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-weight: bold;">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Members in Dancing Salmon Home Documentary</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><h2 style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 1em;">Project News From New Zealand</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;">Thanks to the financial, spiritual and moral support from each of you, I have been able to return to Aoteroa (New Zealand), to gather more footage and interviews, to be able to tell the story more completely. I'm happy to report that your faith in my efforts and the larger vision of the Winnemem Wintu people is bearing fruit. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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I've been able to get more footage of the McCloud Chinook salmon in New Zealand's waters, as well as interviews with a university professor about the introduction of salmon here in the late 1800s, and early 1900s. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In addition the Trap and TrNsfer Committee of the Maori people of the South Island have been graciously hosting me as I follow them in their mission of protecting their sacred longfin eel by catching them and transferring them safely around the dams.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Today, the team netted a large adult female eel, in the early stages of her migration changes. She's about 80 years old, so has been in the upper waters, above the dams, since before they were built. If she were to head downstream toward the sea, where she wants to mate and spawn deep in the Pacific, she would likely be chopped up by the dams' turbines, and the 600-1 million eggs would never have a chance to return from the sea as tiny glass eels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The Maori-Eel story is the mirror of the Winnemem-salmon story. Two proud peoples, who know who they are, sustained by, and protecting their sacred water relatives.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Thank you again for your continued spiritual support for my efforts, and for the larger vision of the Winnemem people. Any additional financial support you can add, no mTtsr how small, will help to bring this important story to a wide audience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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With gratitude and respect,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Will Doolittle</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></span></span>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-43132828242153095412011-04-04T15:12:00.000-07:002011-04-04T15:12:53.397-07:00A message worth repeating<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">The Winnemem Wintu have a well-documented history and pre-history in our traditional territory. We have our spiritual healers and doctors who still practice our ways of wellness through herbal medicines, ceremony, prayers, and songs. We go to our sacred places and dance for all our relations. It is this continuous movement of the Wintu people that verifies we have never changed or become extinct.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>We, the Wintu Tribe, are a proud religious people. We have survived the settlement of America, the extermination and termination policies of the United States, and the sicknesses brought to us by those who came to "civilize" us. Now we find that U.S. government, after killing our people and taking our land, can't remember who we are so we must prove that we are a tribe in order to regain federal acknowledgment so we can protect our religious practices and sacred places. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>Our tribal history is long in the knowledge and tradition of our religion and it is that religion that keeps our people alive. We take care of many sacred places located in northern California on what has always been "our land." We continue to do our religious job that the Creator put us down in this part of the world to do. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>We come from Mount Shasta (Bullyum Pui Yuk). This fact makes us people of nature. It also is the foundation of our religion, provides us our place of worship, and makes us responsible for the care of the mountain, which we do through prayers, songs, and dances. We have other places, too, like Cold Spring Mountain (Chi Di Chi De Chi De Kee) that was made by the great Creator for the Wintu Tribe to take care of. In return, the mountains and sacred places take care of the people by sending the healing spirits, herbs and medicines, and by teaching the doctoring ways. Our trails once formed a spider web on our sacred mountain and the many sacred places that must hear us sing and listen to our prayers. Unfortunately, today many huge areas have been lost due to clear-cut logging methods and strip-mining techniques, and land developers who support the non-Indian life styles and economy. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>Wintu spiritual elders have known and continue to this day to teach the history of the places and their spiritual significance in the practices of the tribe's spiritual existence. They know the powers the Creator bestowed on Mount Shasta and the history and use of each of the many sacred sites dotting the mountainside. Each spiritual doctor and initiate must know the importance of each place; the uses of the herbs and plants found at each site; the spirits who inhabit each place and how to communicate to those spiritual beings: the rocks and springs and the trees. The mountains are sad when the Wintu cannot come to hold ceremony, dance, pray and sing. When the Wintu can no longer perform our religious jobs, the Creator has said the world will we thrown out of balance. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>We fight on, however, because if we are to lose, there will be no place in the world where you will find Wintu people and Mt. Shasta. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Florence Jones (Pui-lu-le-met), my late grandmother asked, </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><i>"What gives the white people the right to come here and kill my people, take our <span></span>homes away and treat us so badly? Our blood is the same as other human beings. <span></span>We are people, too. Just because the color of my skin is brown that doesn't give <span></span>them more rights than the Creator put down for all people. I'm trying to make the<span> </span>white man see that the sacred spring on Mt Shasta, the herbal medicines, and the <span></span>spiritual doctoring we use to heal our people are all connected. It is not <span></span>something that can be separated out. Don't they know that the Wintu have had <span></span>religion to stay well all these years before they came to our land? Our children <span></span>will need our religious ways, our language and sacred places to call themselves <span></span>Wintu Indians in the future."</i> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>We need to educate our children, we need food, clothing and shelter for our elders, we need traditional medicine for all, we need our sacred places to meet with our people, and most of all we need access to and protection for our sacred lands! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>We leave you with the Blessings of the Sacred Mount Shasta. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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The entire series on Salmon by Bruce Tokars. From his own words:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">What if salmon could speak? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We imagine that they would have a lot to say about how difficult their lives have been because of the way humans have treated their environment. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The past decade has not been kind to salmon but it is not too late to fix the problems that have pushed wild California salmon to the edge of extinction.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">The person who can have the greatest impact on reversing salmon’s march to oblivion is California’s past <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and current governor, Jerry Brown. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The people he hires or appoints to manage and repair California’s water system can make a difference. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But they need to follow sound science and reject the hysterical political grandstanding of those who only care about their own greedy ambitions.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i>Fix the Delta</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">This is the starting point. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Getting the Delta back to health will require stronger flows and much less water diversions. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But if sound, peer-reviewed science is followed, then we believe that salmon can come back to health, too.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i>Habitat Restoration</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Restoring habitat is critical to returning salmon runs back to healthy numbers. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There is much work to be done in rivers and streams and the Delta. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But science knows what needs to happen and if there is a will to fix salmon’s trashed habitat, they will bounce back.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i>Building Things</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Dams, tunnels, and canals are not the answer to salmon’s problems. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are other solutions that make much more sense. Besides, given California’s fiscal health, expensive construction projects should be out of the question. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The aborted water bond that was removed from the 2010 ballot and moved to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2012 is still a disaster, calling for more dams and more construction. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Building things is still a part of the conversation but it is time to reject that approach, once and for all.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i>Water Conservation</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Agriculture uses 80% of the developed water in California. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Urban users account for 11%. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Both agriculture and urban water users <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>need to conserve. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Price elasticity is the key to encouraging changed behaviors from all users.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i>The Best Science</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Of all the points made in this video series this is THE most important. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The best science available must be followed if we are to reverse salmon’s decline and restore them back to health. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For too long, sound science has been dismissed or ridiculed by politicians and water managers unwilling to accept any solution that would result in reduced water deliveries. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But it is clear that if the Delta is to be restored and salmon habitats renewed, then strong, peer-reviewed science must lead the way.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Governor Brown, the once bountiful runs of wild California salmon are depending on you and those who <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>work for you, to be heroes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To do the right things that will reverse salmon’s sad decline and begin a recovery program that will restore them back to health. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After all, salmon are California’s most senior water rights holder and we have a responsibility to fix what has been so wrong, once and for all.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><b><i>The Human Costs</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">When salmon are in trouble, people are hurt. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fishing families that have depended on healthy runs of salmon are themselves becoming extinct. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Families are hurting. Coastal communities are in trouble. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The infrastructure that supports both commercial and recreational fishing is under severe stress and close to collapsing. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This video, the last of our six-part series speaks to these issues.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 14px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #888888;"><br />
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</span><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="color: #888888;">Bruce Tokars</span></div><div><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="http://www.salmonwaternow.org/" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank">www.salmonwaternow.org</a></span></div><span style="color: #888888;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-78255837317862789352011-03-12T11:21:00.000-08:002011-03-12T11:21:06.128-08:00Time to Save California's Pandora<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><h1 class="print-title">Time to Save California's Pandora</h1><br />
<div class="print-content"><div class="node"><div class="content"><strong><img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/marc%20dadigan.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" />By Marc Dadigan</strong><br />
In James Cameron’s online video “A Message from Pandora”, the director of Avatar is seen traveling to the Xingu river in Brazil, meeting with Amazonian indigenous tribes and condemning the Belo Monte Dam, a $11 billion behemoth that would displace some 20,000 people. In a compelling case of life imitating art, Cameron has since received some credit when a Brazilian judge last week halted the construction of the Belo Monte, citing the need for more study of its impact on the surrounding rainforest.<br />
“All of a sudden I’m in the Amazon, and living a real-life Avatar.” Cameron says in the video moments after an indigenous woman dashes his face with red paint.<br />
Cameron is to be commended for standing behind his film’s support for indigenous right, but he didn’t need to travel all the way to the Amazon to find his real-life Pandora. He could have driven a few hours north of his Palo Alto home to the pine-quilted mountains of the McCloud River canyon where another tribe’s existence is imperiled by a large dam.<br />
This Sunday, two United Nations human rights experts visited the McCloud and documented the threat the 602-foot Shasta Dam poses to the Winnemem Wintu, a small traditional tribe that still lives in their ancestral territory.<br />
Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk-Franco led the U.N. officials on a tour of her tribe’s sacred places that would be permanently submerged if the Bureau of Reclamation’s proposed 18.5 raise of the Shasta Dam is approved by Congress.<br />
Sisk-Franco took them to the sacred Puberty Rock, where the tribe’s adolescent girls pray during their coming-of-age ceremony; a purling creek that’s a healing place for the tribe’s women and Eagle Rock, a raptor shaped outcropping connected to the tribe’s doctoring traditions.<br />
If the dam were raised, they could no longer practice the religious ceremonies that are intertwined with these sacred places, and the Winnemem would have lost what makes them Winnemem.<br />
It would be the equivalent of the government razing every Catholic church in the country, the difference being that Catholics can build new churches; the Winnemem can never replace their sacred places.<br />
It’s a testament to the tribe’s resilience that they still exist. When the dam was constructed during World War II, the resulting reservoir, Shasta Lake, submerged their villages on the McCloud and 90 percent of their sacred places.<br />
For the tribe, the McCloud River is their universe, and their sacred places its constellations. For Shasta Lake to have nearly swallowed them all was an unfathomable loss.<br />
At one point during the U.N. tour, Sisk-Franco noted the boat was above a sacred blessing rock, one that is almost always submerged beneath the reservoir. She poignantly explained how one rainy day in February, the reservoir’s water had ebbed enough to reveal the rock, and five of her young Winnemem boys immediately jumped into the freezing water.<br />
As had once been the tribe’s tradition, they swam to the rock and rubbed their hands against it, not knowing if they’d ever see it again.<br />
I understand if Cameron has never heard of the Winnemem because the BOR and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have done a thorough job of expunging the tribe from our history.<br />
When visitors tour the Shasta Dam, the B.O.R. presents a nearly scriptural tale of a monument to American ingenuity and its enterprising spirit. But no one ever learns that Winnemem were evicted from their McCloud homes to clear the path for Shasta Lake or that Winnemem veterans returned from fighting in the Pacific to find their homes underwater.<br />
Making matters worse, the BIA dropped the Winnemem from its list of federally recognized tribes in the 1980s, meaning they have limited access to federal grants and little legal standing to protect their lands.<br />
B.O.R. says it will complete a feasibility study of the dam raise by 2013, at which time it will go to Congress for a vote. They say the dam raise is needed to slake the thirst of California’s growing population, but the state’s alfalfa farmers could create just as much extra water by conserving only five percent of what they currently use.<br />
I would like to invite Mr. Cameron to come take the same tour the U.N. did, to meet the tribe and see the beauty of their culture and religion, which could soon be lost beneath Shasta Lake’s murky depths.<br />
Some might question why I would compare the Shasta Dam raise to the Belo Monte, which would displace thousands while the Winnemem number only 123. But if there were only 123 dolphins left in the world, wouldn’t we be working like mad to save them?<br />
Why shouldn’t we believe saving our endangered cultures is just as important as saving our endangered species?<br />
The Shasta Dam raise is an unnecessary atrocity in the making, but like the Belo Monte, it’s one that can be stopped.<br />
Sadly, Brazilian authorities overruled the judge's injunction this week, citing the dam's construction as a concern of "national security." Apparently the security of the 50,000 indigenous people who might lose land or their homes is not a priority.<br />
This doesn't have to happen here, not if we listen to the Winnemem's story and respect their right to exist.<br />
There’s still time to save California’s own Pandora.<br />
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<em><a href="http://www.marcdadigan.com/" style="color: black;" target="_blank">Marc Dadigan</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a freelance journalist writing a book about the Winnemem’s spiritually guided salmon restoration project.</em></div></div></div></span></span>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-55230171674091520682011-03-09T12:49:00.001-08:002011-03-09T12:49:53.334-08:00Our River is Our Name from International Rivers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left;"><h2 style="color: #004283; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 10px; text-transform: none;">Our River is Our Name</h2><div class="orangeBold" style="color: #ec6002; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">Caleen Sisk-Franco, Tribal Chief and Spiritual Leader, Winnemem Wintu Tribe, (California, U.S.A)</div><h2 style="color: #004283; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 10px; text-transform: none;"><span class="inline inline-right" style="display: block; float: right; margin: 5px 10px;"><a class="thickbox" href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/images/Caleen.jpg" style="color: #0066b7; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Caleen Sisk-Franco"><img alt="Caleen Sisk-Franco" class="image image-inline_thumb" height="133" src="http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/images/Caleen.inline_thumb.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" title="Caleen Sisk-Franco" width="200" /></a><span class="caption" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -10px; width: 198px;"><div class="caption" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 4px;">Caleen Sisk-Franco</div></span></span></h2><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">The name of my tribe, Winnemem Wintu, translates to Middle Water people and is taken from the name of our river, the Winnemem Waywakit, which is bounded by the Upper Sacramento to the West and the Pit River to the East.<br />
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Now known to most as the McCloud River, it rises from glacial waters in the Cascades, and it runs so clean you can clearly see the rocks, sand and insects that populate its bottom. A series of well-known waterfalls cascade over its basaltic lava beds in feathery ribbons of white and foam.<br />
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Because of its beauty, most people here in Northern California probably believe the McCloud is healthy and pristine. But that is only because they don't remember, as my tribe does, how it used to be before it was butchered by dams and left clinging to its life.<br />
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The Shasta Dam was built during World War II and flooded the lower 26 miles of our river under its reservoir. It also blocked our sacred relative, the salmon, from traveling to its traditional spawning places. In 1965, the McCloud Dam was built on the upper river and started diverting water to the Pit as part of a lucrative hydroelectric project. Because of these diversions, our once powerful and rushing river, which once had a winter flow of 6,000 cubic feet per second, now trickles at a mere 200 cfs.<br />
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Our river is starved on one side and swollen on the other. And yet they are not done with it. As we fight to bring our salmon back, we also fight against a proposal to raise the Shasta Dam as well as a McCloud Dam re-licensing that could sustain the crippling diversions for another 50 years.<br />
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Just as they have carved up our river, so too have they tried to break our bond with it by extricating us from our traditional lands and refusing to acknowledge our history and right to exist. But they underestimate our resilience: our spiritual connection to our river remains strong and unbroken.<br />
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Our river is our name. And we are willing to die to defend it.</div></span></span>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-56387099534634536312011-03-08T16:19:00.000-08:002011-03-08T16:19:44.403-08:00Winnemem-Wintu: Protecting Women's Rights of Passage<div class="headers"> <div class="heading"><strong class="heading">Winnemem-Wintu: Protecting Women's Rights of Passage</strong></div><div class="author">by Christina Aanestad <br />
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<div class="article">The Winnemem-Wintu, "Middle Water People" are a small tribe of California Native Americans. The U.S. Government relocated them from their land during World War 2 to build the Shasta Dam. After nearly 80 years, under the leadership of Caleen Sisk-Franco, Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Winnemem-Wintu the tribe has returned to the McCloud river, near Shasta Dam to revive the Puberty Ceremony. "Balas Chonas" in Wintu marks a girls transition into womanhood. <br />
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For 3 days and nights, men sing and dance on one side of a river, while the women, pass on traditions to girls on the other side, defining the difference between girls and women. But holding a ceremony on stolen land can be a challenge. The U.S. government has not granted the Wintu's requests to access their ancestral land in privacy and the Wintu say a federal plan to raise the Shasta Dam would flood their remaining sacred land. <br />
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The ceremony is held with recreational boaters driving by, and camping as the tribe works to hold it's right of passage. Under the guidance of their Chief and Spiritual Leader, Caleen Sisk Franco, the Winnemem-Wintu declared war on the U.S. government in 004, have since sued the federal government to protect their rights and their ancestral land, and is working to return indigenous salmon to the McCloud River watershed. Caleen Sisk Franco says preserving the Puberty Ceremony is preserving their way of life. </div>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-80803486664673029092011-03-04T09:53:00.000-08:002011-03-09T08:12:05.495-08:00Report by the UN Independent Expert on Water and SanitationUpdated UN Independent Expert statement regarding Water and Sanitation visit to the states.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-23753019633154487202011-02-18T13:55:00.000-08:002011-02-18T13:55:05.863-08:00Regarding the History of Shasta Dam - A quick messagefrom our ChiefCaleen Audrey Sisk-Franco<br />
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Maybe one should ask about the earthquake fault line that lies under Lake Shasta and how much time do people of Redding, Cottonwood, Anderson, Red Bluff, etc... have to evacuate? Of course one person in the BOR said that not even a 10.0 earthquake could break the dam.<br />
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The water stored here is not for the people here. The giant Agriculture Businesses are the real BOSS of the Shasta Dam. They have the right amount of money and the right friends <b>they </b>put in power. When the Dam was built they made the Wintu Indians the <i>insignificant </i>in the way, now, they are making the Chinook Salmon the <i>insignificant </i>needing water to spawn.<br />
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Since the Shasta Dam was built, water pollution has sky rocketed. You can't drink water from the rivers and high mountain streams, but people trusted piped in , filtered water. Talk to the people who are now receiving smelly water, brown water, and no water from the tap. Then think of the 10 million more people moving to California. Why would people be moving to a state that projects a 40% water shortage by 2020? Shasta Dam will not support the water needs even if they raised it another 200 feet. Water has to stop being just a commodity!Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-21876908680539950122011-02-12T10:38:00.000-08:002011-02-12T10:51:13.993-08:00Update to Blog SiteFolks,<br />As many of you have noted over the years, this blog has intended to reflect happenings by the Winnemem Wintu Tribe in our journey to justice. Sometimes my personal feelings came up in the discussions and that caused a minor "scandal" with some readers who felt my words were unwarranted in what I felt, at the time, was my blog.<br /><br />Well, not to worry. I have recreated the identifying information of this blog to reflect that it is a "tribal" site. The author(s) now will be able to post articles that are of interest for the followers of our tribe and hopefully educate the greater public audience regarding what it means to be "un-recognized", traditional and still engaged in protecting the lands and relatives (all of them) that we as people owe so much to.<br /><br />Come back often and check on what may be new and if you have a penchant for the individual rambling and musing of "Mark Franco", check out my personal blog at http://bunkhousediary.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Alrighty then...let the madness begin!Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-34203114157968694622011-02-10T14:58:00.000-08:002011-02-10T15:03:23.638-08:00Winnemem Berkeley Benefit part2Winnemem Brower Center Fundraiser, February 3, 2011<br /><br />The Tribe wishes to express our deep gratitude to all who helped with and participated in the February 3rd Brower Center Fundraiser. More than 200 people attended and helped with the event. Having never held a fundraiser of this sort before, we are gratified and a little awed by the response of the folks who traveled to join us and for the generosity shown the Tribe in your giving, generous bids on the silent auction art pieces and purchase of the other jewelry pieces presented by our tribal artists. We all had an extraordinary evening and hope that everyone else who attended enjoyed themselves too. Below is a quick recap of the evening.<br /><br />The Tribe would like to offer our special thanks to Amy Vanderwarker and Toby McLeod for being the core local coordinators for the event and Lisa Fay Beatty and Marissa for help with the David Brower Center. We would also like to thank all of those who participated in the program including Reverend Lindi Ramsden, Bill Jenkins, and Malcolm Margolin. Thanks to Will Doolittle and Toby McLeod for sharing clips from their upcoming films. Thanks to all of the artists and donors of silent auction items. Thanks to the event sponsors: Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Sacred Land Films, Women’s Earth Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Heyday Books. Finally, we would like to thank the Earth Island Institute and the David Brower Center.<br /><br />The Film “Teasers “<br />“Dancing Salmon Home” is a film directed by Will Doolittle that chronicles the Tribe’s journey to New Zealand and the ceremony held on the Rakaia River for the return of the McCloud River salmon sent to the south pacific in the 1880s. A new film in progress by Toby McLeod on the loss of sacred ground was another high light of the evening. <br /><br />Address by Chief Caleen Sisk-Franco<br />Chief Caleen Sisk-Franco talked about the importance of salmon to the Tribe, of the direction the Tribe has followed regarding the protection and preservation of the waters of the north state, and how the Winnemem look at all beings as relatives. She also asked for help from scientists and engineers so that the Tribe can further develop the proposal to bring the salmon home.<br /><br />Insights on the Winnemem Wintu Tribe<br />Headman Mark Franco emceed the evening and used his time to entertain and inform. Reverend Lindi Ramsden of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry provided her take on the value the Tribe brings to everyone. Bill Jenkins, a world champion martial artist spoke to the strength and courage the Winnemem demonstrate. Finally, Malcolm Margolin from Heyday Books closed out the event with his thought provoking words.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-54506320208304068992011-02-10T14:56:00.000-08:002011-02-10T15:06:44.487-08:00Berkeley Benefit Part 1We would like to express our deep gratitude to everyone who attended and contributed in any way to our benefit at the David Brower Center on February 3rd. We are glad to report that the event was more successful than we could have imagined. We are humbled by the generosity shown by volunteers, donors, and guests. To be kept informed about future Winnemem events, benefits, and ceremonies please visit our website at www.winnememwintu.us in the coming weeks and sign-up for our listserv. We hope to have this in place very soon.<br /><br />We would like to thank all of the following people and organizations for their contributions:<br /><br />Individuals <br />Amy Vanderwarker<br />Ann Marie Sayers<br />Bill Jenkins<br />Dan Bacher<br />Debbie Davis<br />Eugenia Clark<br />Favianna Rodriguez<br />Jeanne France<br />John Powers<br />Lindi Ramsden<br />Lisa Quinn<br />Malcolm Margolin<br />Marc Dadigan<br />Misa Joo<br />Ruth Koenig<br />Sally Carless<br />Sarah Haase<br />Toby McLeod<br />Will Doolittle<br />Marissa Cadena-Belski<br /><br />Organizations <br />David Brower Center<br />Dignidad Rebelde<br />Environmental Justice Coalition for Water<br />Heyday Books<br />Natural Resources Defense Council<br />Rainbow Grocery<br />Sacred Land Film Project<br />Women’s Earth AllianceWinnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-54473137686043225392010-11-19T16:51:00.000-08:002010-11-19T17:01:56.277-08:00Ceremony in the wrong placeThere will be a "presentation" in Mt Shasta this evening discussing medicine wheels and earth healing and has been the practice a discussion of doing these things on the mountain in our sacred sites and what our old people called "our church". I ask the good people who claim to follow traditional religions to understand that medicine wheel ceremonies and certain other rituals are not native to this area of California and are offensive when done on places we pray for and at. <br /><br />Please, when you are in another tribe's territory, ask before you set down a shrine or other religious icon in another peoples place. Do not assume, if you follow the "red road", that we all take the same stops along the way. One size does not fit all in tribal religions and cultures.<br /><br />We are seeing more and more people coming from out of state into our lands and doing these things. We ask this: if you are a medicine person, what do your people at home do when you are traveling around or living in another state? How effective is your medicine way if you do not go to your own sacred places to gather your medicine that you are bringing to outsiders in foreign places?<br /><br />I wonder why the Forest Service and local agencies are not stopping this type of activity when they place such strict rules on the local California Indian people. Is it because these folks say they are from BIA recognized tribes that you do not check their papers to see if they are in fact legitimate?<br /><br />I worry for our sacred places and the waters of the high mountains when numerous people come flooding into to pristine watersheds and damage, albeit perhaps accidentally, the land they are using to make a dollar.<br /><br />I hope that this reaches the ears of those who have, to date not heard, and that you consider what you are doing before you step into an area where you cannot speak to the spirits and whose spirit helpers you bring do not naturally get along with the locals. This is just food for thought. I hope that we can see a reduction in these intrusions and that people will go to their own lands for their own ceremonies and not abuse the places you think are not under the care of the locals.<br /><br />The elders of our land here said the same thing as that in the below cited passage from the flier for tonight's performance, but that we have a place here to take care of first and foremost. Those who come to unite need to meet the local tribe(s) first before uniting the general public.<br /><br />"The elders say according to traditions, part of their original instructions as human beings was to serve as Keepers of the Earth. They were also told that one day they would have to step forward in a time of extreme crisis to lead <br />-- to educate people about how to restore balance to the Earth– <br />About Shoshoni Elder, Blue Thunder, he has received this message and is willing to unite all cultures, belief systems, and races in prayer and sacred intent, to heal, unify, and shift the Earth and Her Peoples."<br /><br />You can learn more at Blue Thunder's sites at www.teton-rainbows.com <http://www.teton-rainbows.com/> and www.spiritualelders.org <http://www.spiritualelders.org/>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-19681558304871934132010-09-28T10:28:00.000-07:002010-09-28T10:35:41.654-07:00To Restore Salmon, Follow the Creator's Plan, Not FrankenfishAn op-ed about genetically engineered salmon by the Winnemem's chief and spiritual leader Caleen Sisk-Franco appeared in the <span style="font-style:italic;">California Progress Report</span> today. <br /><br />In the piece, she discusses the danger posed by the GE salmon, and also how bizarre it is that the government would support this dangerous plan while remaining skeptical about our own far safer plan to restore the salmon to the McCloud River. <br /><br />Here's an excerpt, and you can read the full column<a href=" http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=no"> here</a>. <br /><br /><blockquote>One day coyote noticed fox was smoothing sticks and fashioning them into children who would help him find food. Coyote was filled with envy and soon started to build his own family. <br /><br />Impatient and greedy, coyote made his children with rugged, knobby sticks and built them much larger than him, thinking they would hunt more food this way. <br /><br />When he finished, however, his roughly-hewn children disobeyed his orders, turned against him and beat him up. <br /><br />My tribe, the Winnemem Wintu, is a traditional salmon people who come from Mount Shasta in California, and we learned long ago from coyote it’s dangerous to mimic the Creator. It’s a lesson yet to be learned by AquaBounty, the Massachusetts company behind the genetically engineered salmon likely to be approved by the FDA this month. </blockquote>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-19959190554377378062010-02-27T09:23:00.000-08:002010-02-27T09:33:53.249-08:00New Zealand SalmonI would like to thank all of the folks who have offered support and donated to the Tribe's ceremony for the salmon living on the Rakaia River.<br />Currently, the USF&WS as well as NOAA have been working on a salmon restoration project to return salmon to the waters above the impoundment dams on the west coast. When I spoke with them at a meeting in Sacramento, they were surprised that the genetic stock from the McCloud Baird hatchery were thriving in the rivers of New Zealand. This information was what they had hoped for as the original stock fish are what the projects call for. By bringing the roe of the ancestors of the McCloud fish home, we hope to reverse the decline of salmon we all are suffering from.<br />Anyway, the video link for youtube, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/winnememwintu#p/u/0/n1iMcEwb0BI">http://www.youtube.com/winnememwintu#p/u/0/n1iMcEwb0BI</a> is a short description of the ceremony and its importance (along with some other discussion, we made in Eugene Oregon this week for the PIELC law conference. We hope you enjoy it and it answers some of your questions about why we are headed to the Pacific.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-51073158230854214242010-02-11T07:57:00.000-08:002010-02-11T08:29:20.027-08:00Ecuador Part 4<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qd_amwuwqTBL9df-pkSl7eL220aZoBxHHAII0b9yzsqXjM1DO6yisHYbNG4QPV81Jm8OddeKXulr-G5tyaTHyWMStucvjCmbMBpRVKVPhdlI_fAXX1V6eLIwSIkeswymiy7KGg/s1600-h/IMG00061.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qd_amwuwqTBL9df-pkSl7eL220aZoBxHHAII0b9yzsqXjM1DO6yisHYbNG4QPV81Jm8OddeKXulr-G5tyaTHyWMStucvjCmbMBpRVKVPhdlI_fAXX1V6eLIwSIkeswymiy7KGg/s320/IMG00061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437018881736058386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaf2UXSIeroWVB7w6OmrK-JXnYIQnnTChyphenhyphenf2M4aXPtNKowtmZM8iYf5o5s6VNFT9KiJWzfoz0axkfL8cHtmObCMiRFUtdIDqvA-KJr_25h6Aqr0Ukis4H_5NEW02x7P_eojO9bFw/s1600-h/IMG00058.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaf2UXSIeroWVB7w6OmrK-JXnYIQnnTChyphenhyphenf2M4aXPtNKowtmZM8iYf5o5s6VNFT9KiJWzfoz0axkfL8cHtmObCMiRFUtdIDqvA-KJr_25h6Aqr0Ukis4H_5NEW02x7P_eojO9bFw/s320/IMG00058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437018874783901762" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnWL_Dn_Ldm8k9MJOhvt0RoYqwUkmcvEKswrIFjVzMgpQ-73BFoapMfVJ4YnXJKGx0v6LIXdP2b7on-qYpzk5cQ2U1dJhqnB1JLrXYRxIbEMVw4Q3wEm4eX95tKdNni_sWBTiS2w/s1600-h/IMG00049.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnWL_Dn_Ldm8k9MJOhvt0RoYqwUkmcvEKswrIFjVzMgpQ-73BFoapMfVJ4YnXJKGx0v6LIXdP2b7on-qYpzk5cQ2U1dJhqnB1JLrXYRxIbEMVw4Q3wEm4eX95tKdNni_sWBTiS2w/s320/IMG00049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437018871960843746" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vZa4MYiLigoiFZbWajjeR-MMW06ssyFhQjTRhWqvYTuqiNKUk4RqAg0YBZmIZwtjqvnw7Dy6wBMpB8bmJ0b5fEFUtnI_SG_YJDneNpYYEx09vNhnCerz2fMXhJLD2P82wQf4aA/s1600-h/IMG00043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vZa4MYiLigoiFZbWajjeR-MMW06ssyFhQjTRhWqvYTuqiNKUk4RqAg0YBZmIZwtjqvnw7Dy6wBMpB8bmJ0b5fEFUtnI_SG_YJDneNpYYEx09vNhnCerz2fMXhJLD2P82wQf4aA/s320/IMG00043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437018862666067714" border="0" /></a><br />Well, following the last supper (so to speak), Charlie, Myrna and I headed out via bus to banana country (about 175 miles south of Guayaquil). I have ridden in cabs in New York and Washington DC and let me tell you: the drivers in the north cannot carry a fix-a-flat for these vaqueros in South America. I do not think we stayed on our side of the road the entire trip for any longer than to hug the rail as approaching cars pushed our way. I saw people jumping out of the way, construction crews ducking to avoid getting a mirror to their melons, and better marksmanship that Sgt. York as the drivers we had (coming and going) hit every pothole in the road.<br />Bouncing along and getting one rest stop (at a company sponsored bodega along the roadway, we finally made it to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Guabas</span> and the free market banana plantation where Marcos, our guide drove us into the bush and then on foot to look at banana gathering first hand.<br />I have a new appreciation for the bananas we get here. It was hot in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">plantation</span> and the men and women working their labor extremely hard for the fruit many seem to think merely grow on trees. In <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">fact</span>, I learned that these plants are like mini water drums: the water soaks up the stalk of the plant, they grow bigger and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">eventually</span> a red colored flower appears. This flower is bagged and marked with a colored strip and the folks continue on their way doing this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">until</span> the plants are covered with multi-colored tags indicating how long the bananas have matured. Inside the flower are these petal that look like tiny baby bananas, and as they grow they are watched until the fruit finally gets to the familiar shape we all know from the store. The thing you don't see, is that as they grow, someone is constantly tending them, pruning them out and then finally harvesting them (after about 12 weeks). The photo of the fellow with the bunch on his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">shoulder</span> is carrying about 80 kilos in weight (160 lbs?). He carried that about 50 meters to a drag line where the fruit was chained to a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">pulley</span> and cable system and them drug to the sorting and washing /packing shed. The person in the white shirt of the photo above is the woman who owns this particular plantation.<br />In the shed area, the bananas were measured (like on the crab boats where they see if they are the right size) but in this case, if the fruit is too big (long and wide) they are tossed in a pile to the side. Seems the delicate mouths of the eaters in Europe and the US can only handle a particular size banana...crazy huh?<br />Anyway, I asked what happened to the ones chucked to the side (I was eating them by the way - I guess my little mouth was just right for the discards). These bananas are sent to a processor who purees them, packs the mess and ships it to Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream where it becomes...tada..Chunky Monkey Ice Cream. So the next time you enjoy a pint of that delicious desert, remember that it once lay on the jungle floor, after being lugged by a fellow half the size of you, and then, tossed aside because no one would eat it as it was too big.<br />The free trade farms, allowed the owners to hire permanent staff, and upwards of 50 additional staff to harvest. They did not make a fortune but it was a decent wage for their economy and was guaranteed throughout the year, so that was good. Health care, educational assistance and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">commods</span> were provided to the permanent staff as well. I am taking a closer look at free trade and the implications of its application across other crops here and in South America.<br /><br />Anyway, we finished, had a nice little dinner back at the hotel and I traveled home where I now finish this travelogue for you. It was fun writing this, as it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">brought</span> back a lot of good memories and reminded me that I have friends south of all the borders who are just like me and you, so all is swell again.<br />We are heading to New Zealand next month for the Salmon ceremony on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Rakaia</span> River. Hopefully I will have some snaps of that trip to share with you.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-38471621460697943922010-02-05T15:06:00.000-08:002010-02-05T15:34:13.151-08:00Ecuador Part 3We had a tour of the "marginalized urban communities" near Malvinas and Flor de Bastion I believe they were called. Much like the folks out on the island we saw the day before, these folks had a spirit that burned bright in each and every one. We went to one house where, much to my chagrin, I learned the woman who was deeply involved in the community action network had passed away. I was unprepared to enter this house and worked my way back to the door to listen as the children of this woman explained how the struggle was so great but that their mother carried them through. I was reminded of the women in my life who have passed and the struggles they saw us through and felt a great empathy for these young people, now on their own.<br /><br />We went to another house where the folks gathered to talk with us and we heard how the water agencies were not meeting their own standards and how the people were still without sufficient water or sanitation. Much like our own central valley communities, these people need access to clean, affordable, reliable water systems for their daily needs (wait that sounds like the human right to water that we fought for here in California but saw vetoed by the Governator this past session!) The Ecuadorian government has added this Human right to their constitution, as well as greater protections for women and children and a reserved Right for Nature! I wonder if the US will ever progress beyond these so-called 3rd worlders who seem to be so much better adapted to change and acceptance of the natural world.<br /><br />Eventually, we made it back to the hotel to cool off a bit, gather our thoughts and then, for me, a presentation for and meeting with indigenous and social movement leaders in an auditorium of the Central Bank of Ecuador.<br /><br />I may have mentioned that upon my departure to Ecuador from Atlanta, the plane was delayed. Apparently my luggage sat on the tarmac in the rain for several hours, soaking up the local flavor I guess. Any way, all of my clothes was soaked and as luck would have it, also stained a pretty shade of pink from my cheap suitcase. Anyway, I had to buy a shirt..the final cost for this masterwork was $35 American - I say this like that because, while it fit around me, it was too short in the body and in the arms.<br /><br />So, wearing my new shirt, I walked into the building with my colleagues, and was immediately set upon by a news camera crew (who were supposed to interview me the day before) for an interview...just before speaking with the folks who came to the auditorium. Being a guest in this country, I talked with the news people because when local people have an issue in any country, I have found, if the norte americanos show up, they will get their mugs on the page. I accepted the challenge and the interview I gave was about the Mi Cometa and Observatorios and the issues they had presented to me during the preceding days. If they wouldn't talk to the locals, I would use my big American tribal voice to speak for them. (Sort o like our commitment to the salmon don't you think?).<br /><br />I talked for about an hour after that about our issues here in Winnemem land as well as the condition of tribal people in this "great" country, much to the enjoyment of the audience. A Q&A session followed and I found that many of the folks, after my talk, openly expressed that they too were indigenous tribal people, but had been told not to tell. They were moved to step up and joined with their fellows in pledging to help the environment and the needs of all their relations. They also, in the form of the people who were heading up the Observatorios, pledged in the open forum in front of those who came, to included tribal people in the highest levels of their programs and in the government agencies they represented. Not a bad days work for a big old Winnemem on walk about eh?<br /><br />We closed the day with a farewell dinner for our group and had any of the people who are risking it all for the betterment of their people on hand to share a last meal together. Many of our group were headed to the Galapagos for a tour, I and Charlie and Myrna were heading to the banana plantation in the morning. So we ate, laughed and shared contact information. Hopefully we will be able to assist each other and can recruit others to aiding these folks way down south.<br /><br />The Banana Plantation and the return to California when we next meet.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-72311267968377364632010-02-01T16:26:00.000-08:002010-02-01T16:56:27.917-08:00Ecuador Part 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOUV8FnDEZXTbsoK1dZrJb2R4BySVWNADzEWJdA3nrq19EqsvkzhXazE_iNhNky_jr9j5KgnZpEYV6LojurnR57HMVLpa6kRci-KADJYA8liWTpBPark9OoM6arKAFS5PRbMI0w/s1600-h/IMG00036.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOUV8FnDEZXTbsoK1dZrJb2R4BySVWNADzEWJdA3nrq19EqsvkzhXazE_iNhNky_jr9j5KgnZpEYV6LojurnR57HMVLpa6kRci-KADJYA8liWTpBPark9OoM6arKAFS5PRbMI0w/s320/IMG00036.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433439034154292754" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTp6zzyx_LQRx3JAHDmB7Z3_ipYiw5b6fooa9Qk3N7pbU7GlCJ5xwFFP1FHcQChyphenhyphenNfvuqAhjy9cti4hrSjwfNsakRW52ybC7ef4d3X4XwBshkwoNT0z0XAkQbZOVca6UUdznkk-A/s1600-h/IMG00033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTp6zzyx_LQRx3JAHDmB7Z3_ipYiw5b6fooa9Qk3N7pbU7GlCJ5xwFFP1FHcQChyphenhyphenNfvuqAhjy9cti4hrSjwfNsakRW52ybC7ef4d3X4XwBshkwoNT0z0XAkQbZOVca6UUdznkk-A/s320/IMG00033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433437747820307890" border="0" /></a><br />So, having made it through the first night and into the second day, we headed aboard a bus that took us to the South Guasmo neighborhood where the office of "Mi Cometa" are located. This center houses many projects for the community, including the Utopia Radio station, the door on the bottom left is their entrance (see the kite design). Mi Cometa means My Kite. Any way, the projects also included a music program, housing assistance, a mico-loan program for the community members that the center offers and manages.<br /><br />We had a luncheon served to us by the folks and then, a musical presentation from the program children (the young man in the green shirt was the lead singer - they sang some wicked Santana).<br /><br />We finished the day at the Center by walking through the neighborhood, looking at several houses that Mi Cometa had help facilitate the construction for. We saw some in first stage bare walls, open windows and doorways and then on to others that were completed, painted and shiny. I was slightly jealous because these places were cinder block buildings, attached to the foundation (although with limited re-bar) as opposed to the trailers the folks in our own village live in. I was impressed by the willingness of the folks in these areas to help themselves and although they had no real running water or sanitation, for the most part they survived and were happy to have a united community. This message was important to see and one that I will share with whomever I talk with about this trip.<br /><br />We closed out the day with a visit to the Regulatory agency ECAPAG (www.ecapag.gov.ec) This agency was, in a word, slimy. They had all the answer but seemed to not truly provide regulation or oversight. The waters of Ecuador are privatized. There is raw sewage and untreated water pouring into the rivers and this regulator organ of the government was seemingly casting a blind eye at the problems, to the detriment of the population. I asked the General Director of social communication and community relations, Stalin Poveda, about the dams on the river and how they were impacting the rivers, the lack of water quality assurance and the threat of additional dams to meet the needs of the unabashed development. He neatly sidestepped the question, actually stating that the dams were now allowing for more water to flow in the river than before they were built. He also said that there was plenty of water and thy would never need more dams for supply. Curious note: 45% of the people do not have fresh water and if I remember correctly 65% or more do not have access to sanitation (like sewer or septic). I said they were slimy, I think I know what they are slimy with.<br /><br />Later this week - the Guayas River Boat trip and the Isla Santay.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-25839174698928651182010-01-31T16:33:00.000-08:002010-01-31T19:06:03.165-08:00To Ecuador and beyondI had an opportunity to travel with a group from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Let me start by saying that if you have not heard of this group, check them out, they are doing a lot of wonderful things worldwide as well as in the United States.<br /><br />OK then, as you may or may not know, I am a follower of the Winnemem religion and no other so I was surprised by the invitation to travel and the openness of the folks at UUSC who arranged this trip south. After about 23 hours of total travel time from Nor Cal to Quito, Ecuador,speaking a bastardized version of Spanglish, I was able to negotiate my way through customs and the airport maze from the international terminal to the domestic terminal where I discovered that they were closed until 4:00 AM. Sleeping was impossible, but dozing in and out worked (along with several cups of the home brew there "Nescafe"). I verified my disdain for instant coffee that early morning and was first in line to hop the next leg of my trip. I got off the third plane of this trip and through the oppressive , muggy air, found myself smack dab in the middle of Guayaquil, a riverfront town south west of Quito.<br /> <br />I was greeted in the baggage area by a young man holding a sign with my name on it and let me tell you, I was never happier to see that someone knew I was coming and had actually come for me.<br /><br />OK, I know this is chatty but stay with me. My suitcase was soaked from sitting hours on the tarmac in Atlanta and then in Quito so I had only the clothes I was wearing and a new pair of socks in my backpack so I hopped in the shower, rinsed and lathered, and headed to the hotel business center where I could send an email home saying I had landed. 15 minutes later I was back in my room waiting for my assigned roommate, Charlie, the President of the UUSC, to arrive. He did about 3 hours later and after setting up his rigging, we headed to the first meeting of the day with the others in our delegation.<br /><br />Now, I began to get a sense of the folks who traveled south and their rationale for going. Seems that beside the staff members who handle the operations UUSC provides, the folks I traveled with were donors of sorts to the humanitarian programming. We had the general introductions and a meal and closed out the evening with a rundown of the logistics for the next days in the field - this was going to be quite the adventure: a visit to the offices of Mi Cometa, the offices of Los Observitorios, a canoe trip to the Isla Santay, a trip to the offices of the water services regulators department at Ecopag, a filed visit to a housing development by the community people and finally a trip to a free-market Banana plantation.<br />Over the next few posts, I will write of the events at each of these stops and finally of the presentation I made to the local community activists and indigenous people of the area. <br /><br />I am happy to be home; I saw that humanitarian funds are being used in foreign lands and that is good but I also want folks to realize that we in Indian country also sometimes live in third world conditions within the United States. <br /><br />I made some wonderful new friends, have promised aid to several places, saw the results of community intervention through the writing of a new constitution for Ecuador and realized that these folks like all of the folks of color I know in the US are a resilient bunch. All that will come in the next days as I gather myself for a thorough description of Ecuador and beyond.Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-26830961709767859212009-11-08T09:47:00.000-08:002009-11-08T09:50:28.594-08:00Congressman Herger Step up or Stand Down on Health CareAs a tribal member of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, located in the Congressman's district in California, I am not surprised that Mr. Herger voted against reform of a system that has apparently contributed to his campaigns over the years. What is upsetting to me is that people of my Tribe and our fellow citizens of this nation where not truly represented by this man who's record of decisions made "on our behalf" has been so lopsided in favor of his own party's direction. <br />We have a chance for reform and assistance to many people living in this nation, for those who voted for this Act, we send our thanks and prayers that you can do what you are now promising the people of this nation. For those of you, like our own Congressman, I say take off the glasses that see only your party's pathway and use your heart, not your election funds to direct you to truly representing all the people. <br />We are not seen by the Congressman, he says he cannot help as there are Bureaus designed to assist us. Because of the failure of the government to live up to its own laws we cannot use Indian Health in our area but must travel over 3 hours to a clinic in Sacramento to have our elders and children see. I hope that with the passage of legislation like this we will have the health care we so desperately need. <br />I started with "step up or stand down": maybe what we need is for the Congressman to return to California and leave Washington to those who truly believe in the maxim "For the people and by the people."Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18610546.post-84688922188897378662009-11-01T08:26:00.001-08:002009-11-01T08:53:45.668-08:00I'm Back for awhile<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >I was looking at my blog page for the last month or so and it dawned on me that I need to get back on the horse and update what has been happening here in Winnemem Country.<br /><br />We have all been working hard on the State's Water issues. The legislature is proposing some major moves that will be coming up for a vote very soon. Restore the Delta, EJCW, the Environmental Water Caucus and PCL have had their Capitol staff working night and day to ensure that ALL the interests of California are looked after. I suggest those of you who can to get in touch with your representatives and have them vote NO on the Steinberg water package: below, I have copied in Restore the Delta's comments on why and the number of the bill to vote FOR.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-size:medium;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-size:13px;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><strong>Here are 10 reasons why your representative should oppose the Steingberg Water Package, and all its potential ancillary bills, as well as the bond proposals.</strong></div><div> </div></span></div></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1) The purported environmental benefits in SB x7 1 and SBx7 4 hinge on unfunded programs and unstaffed planning processes. There is no identified funding for the Delta Conservancy or the Delta Protection Council. Without identified funding, the restoration projects and consistency processes intended for Delta health will fall<br />behind the construction of facilities in the Delta paid for by beneficiaries. This repeats a cornerstone failure of CalFed. This creates a real risk of the infrastructure and water supply projects proceeding without environmental gains.<div> </div><br />2)There is no assurance that a permit for any future Delta facility will accommodate the instream flow needs of fish. Public trust criteria are not proven tool for ensuring dedicated water for the environment Experienced water lawyers disagree whether the creation of public trust criteria compel the State Board to base apermit for a future Delta project on the public trust.<div> </div>3)The bond allows public funds to be spent on required mitigation or necessary compliance with environmental regulation. Existing law requires beneficiaries to pay for those activities. This is a massive cost shift to taxpayers.<div> </div><div>4) The Delta Stewardship Council holds no fee authority to carry out its mandate. Delta communities, most impacted by this legislation, would not have adequate representation.</div><div> </div><div> 5)The Delta Plan is not required to reduce state dependence on the Delta. The objectives for the Delta Plan do not include reducing state reliance on Delta exports. SB x7 1 only states that it's an intent of the state to reduce dependency.</div><div><br />6) The bill lacks sufficient oversight of the BDCP. The Council lacks the authority to ensure the project does not cause greater harm to the fragile Delta ecosystem.</div><div><br />7) One-third ($3 billion) of the SB 7x 2 funds above-ground storage, which is the least efficient way to increase water supplies.</div><div> </div><div>8) Less than 3% of the funds in the bond would be dedicated to disadvantaged communities most in need of safe drinking water.</div><div> </div><div>9) The proposed water conservation package lacks the enforceable goals needed to achieve 20% conservation by 2020.</div><div> </div><div>10) A $9 billion bond will cost taxpayers about $600 million a year for 30 years. The state's debt service on bonds already authorized by the voters will grow to about 10% of the state's budget and will contribute to more state funding cuts for public safety, health, education, and environmental protection have been slashed to the bone. And the Legislative Analyst's Office estimates that the state will see $10 to $15 billion deficits each year until 2014. Even if a bond is delayed until 2015, we will just be at the beginning of financial recover and should not be piling up more debt.</div><div> </div><div><strong>There is one bill they should vote for however!</strong><div> </div><div>Delta Area Assembly Member Alsyon Huber, along with co-sponsor Senator Lois Wolk, have introduced AB 13 7x. This bill would require lawmakers to sign off on any canal, and it would require the Legislature's nonpartisan fiscal adviser, the Legislative Analyst, to put together an economic feasibility study of the potential project. We commend Assembly Member Huber and Senator Wolk for pulling this piece of legislation together.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Tell your representatives to support AB 13 7x.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Additionally, the California Water Plan update in being put forth for public comment. Check out PCL's website for information on how the draft plan is misleading and includes references to things that will not happen regarding environmental justice and basic environmentally based issues.<br /><br />The Tribal Communication Committee (a group of tribal people working on improving communication between the state and tribes will be co-hosting the Tribal Water Summit on November 4 and 5 in Sacramento. this convening was to have the Governor speak in person but I see that all we will get is a recorded message. Secretary Christman will be on hand as will heads of the major department within the state that deal with conservation and environmental issues. If you have not registered, get in touch with them to secure a seat at the "table" to at least here what we have to say.<br /><br />This meeting will be followed on Friday with a conference at Chico state on "Sustainability". There will be presentations on a variety of issues related to this topic as well tribal concerns presented. Another "must see" event.<br /><br />Also, keep your eyes open for information on NOAA and NMFS "Salmon Recovery Project". They, like many of us are looking at returning salmon to the rivers and streams above the impoundment dams (Shasta/Folsom). This fits in with the Winnemem effort to have the genetic stock taken from the McCloud/Baird hatchery, returned to us from New Zealand. Keep this in mind. We may need help funding this trip but rest assured we will get them back!<br /><br />Well that's a lot to digest, thanks for checking in and email me if you have questions about these updates.<br /></span></strong><br /></div></div></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >On a personal note, I hope that you have all enjoyed the Halloween season and are ready for the next series of holidays. As my friend Bill Jenkins said, be safe, watch out for your little ones and yourself (paraphrasing there Bill).<br /><br />We have a lot of things coming at us in the new year and we need all of you ready to act.<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-size:medium;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mark</span></strong></span></span></span>Winnemem Wintuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10522008844489223398noreply@blogger.com