Seminoles Join Other Natives at Rally for Leonard Peltier
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Seminole 4-H’ers PECS students meet Tribe’s Ahfachkee cross country training mustangs elected leaders team starts season COMMUNITY Y 3A EDUCATION Y1B SPORTS Y 1C Volume XLII • Number 9 September 28, 2018 Heifers change hands at Brighton sale BY BEVERLY BIDNEY Staff Reporter BRIGHTON — )RU WKH WKLUG FRQVHFXWLYH \HDU UDQFKHUV WUDYHOHG IURP WKURXJKRXW WKH 6RXWKHDVW RQ $XJ WR EX\ DQG VHOO KHLIHUV DW WKH &DWWOH &RXQWU\ 5HSODFHPHQW6DOHLQ%ULJKWRQ %HIRUH WKH DXFWLRQ DFWLRQ EHJDQ FDWWOHPHQDQGFDWWOHZRPHQWRRNDFORVHORRN DW WKH EUHG SUHJQDQW DQG RSHQ QRW \HW EUHG KHLIHUV IRU VDOH 7KH )UHG 6PLWK 5RGHR $UHQD VHUYHG DV D WHPSRUDU\ EDUQ ZLWK DQLPDOV LQ SHQV VXUURXQGHG E\ ZLGH ZDONZD\V$VWKHDXFWLRQWLPHRISPGUHZ QHDUHU WKRVH ZDONZD\V ¿OOHG XS ZLWK PRUH DQG PRUH UDQFKHUV GHFLGLQJ RQ ZKLFK ORWV WKH\ZDQWHGWRELG 7KH 6HPLQROH 7ULEH KDG KHDG LQ ORWVIRUVDOHLQFOXGLQJDQLPDOVIURPWKH 6DODFRD9DOOH\)DUPVLQ*HRUJLD 7KH VDOH LQFOXGHG KHDG VLUHG E\ Beverly Bidney 6DODFRDVWRFNDQGKHDGEUHGE\6DODFRD Lucille Jumper and Ryanna Osceola join the protesters and show their support for the release of Leonard Peltier in front of the Coleman Federal Correctional Institution in Sumterville, Fla., on Sept. 22. 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Berrey federal food stamps program (now called contains a solid number of good tribal Conn.) overpriced, over-engineered Walk Bridge the “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance provisions, including: replacement — a.k.a. the Connecticut 3URJUDP´ RQ WKH IXO¿OOPHQW RI QHZ • ·A mandated GAO report on the Department of Transportation’s “Billion- was honored to be re-elected [in July] work requirements pushed by the Trump agricultural credit needs of tribes and their You can burn down a forest, and dollar Boondoggle.” as Chairman of the Quapaw Nation Administration and House Republican members; you can grow it back. You can Because the soon-to-be-demolished Iof Oklahoma (O-Gah-Pah), a tribe leadership. • Authorization for tribes to enter “pollute a river, and you can clean Walk Bridge is listed on the National known for its many successes. Our tribal into “good neighbor agreements” to conduct it up. But if you lose an archaeological site, Register of Historic Places, the National agricultural, food and nutrition programs The Senate’s version of a Farm Bill forest restoration activities on Forest Service it’s gone forever. It’s like tearing the pages Historic Preservation Act requires that are second to none in our community, and lands; out of a history book.” steps be taken to mitigate its historic loss. we boast of establishing the only U.S. The Senate-passed bill has many of • (VWDEOLVKPHQW RI DQ 2I¿FH RI WKH — Ernest Wiegand, The archaeological survey that led to the 'HSDUWPHQW RI $JULFXOWXUHFHUWL¿HG FDWWOH the provisions originally included in the 7ULEDO5HODWLRQVLQWKH2I¿FHRI3DUWQHUVKLSV archaeology professor, Norwalk Community discovery of the Native American treasure and bison facility on tribal trust lands in the “Cultivating Resources, Opportunity, and Public Engagement to advise the College trove was undertaken as part of the DOT’s U.S. Prosperity, and Sustainability (CROPS) Secretary on policies related to tribal The discovery announced [in August] of efforts to comply with the law. I am extremely proud of our Tribe for Indian Country Act,” developed by agriculture; and a Native American fort at the Walk Bridge Rather than preserve the site, however, and its efforts to provide nutritious food to Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman • Establishment of the “New construction site in East Norwalk