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X r n a M» AMtaaua a t kaekeaa OS. : O l teteuaa 217 a.d HwtauUi 111 n» ORIGINAL FINE ART, SMAt I I DIT1ON PRINTS, GRAPHICS, COMMI RC1 Al ART, ARCHITECTUAL Rl NDERINGS A CUSTOM IRAMING 655 MANZANITA AVI NUI • PO BOX 301 MANZANITA O Rl(.ON <13 1 BI NT IO APPvMNTM! NT • W 436 2420 J • .... 4 America to the Nevada Test Site an encampment in the desert adjacent to the Nevada Test Site a native led Healing Ceremony a multi cul tu t al rally. Mass Nonviolent Direct Action, and m ire This October, while some ce, * ebrate the 500 years since the Eu ropean invasion others mourn The purpose statement from the Walk Across America says, in part We seek to u n d ersta n d American history from the per spectiveof American Indians Afri can Americans. Asian Americans, r political prisoners and all other'S*’ opressed people We supp<rt all indigenous peoples rights to the use of and title to their own lands We supptrt the demands of Native Nations to receive a voice in the United Nations We link toward indigenous cultures tooffer us prac tical knowledge which could help us secure the future of all life i, That last sentence might be i f reason enough to show oui support T* and to support Donna s participa lion The events Oct 2 4 Indigenous Peoples Forum. Las Vegas Oct 5 Demonstration at the Test Site Operations Office Oct 5 9 Join European Peace Pilgrimage & Walk Across America for Mother Earth for the 65 mile completion of their 3000 mile, 8- inonth walks Oct 6 12 Nevada Test Site Encampment Oct 10 Native led Healing Ceremony Oct I l Multi cultural Rally , 1 ”0“ 4- v J lit v / ouwds On October second Donna Osburn leads us to Western Shoshone Territory to Nevada and a nuclear test site and to Las Vegas She joins a ten day Indigenous Forum and Ceremony called Healing Global Wounds hosted by the Global Anti Nuclear Alliance and the Western Shoshone National Council The Treaty of Ruby Valley T pre ded for def ini te ack n< »wledge ment of the boundaries of th e en J tire country that they claim They being the Newe (Western Shi ish< m e • the treaty was approved in 1863 when Lincoln s government needed safe passage for California s gold 'S across the 24 000.000 acre Shoshone < Territory This was three years after the discovery of gold and sil ver in Nevada Within a decade of the treaty, many Shoshone were starving their land taken simply and violently am « K V *"V\ \z - There are still some people on this planet whose family is alway a\s , with them even when they are alone, or lost, because they live with the earth and sky. and their people have since the beginning Generations upon generations have lived in thoughtful balance as part of the world and it is perhaps art and magic and science and spirit to them You and I cannot put on this knowl edge like an elk shirt W’e can only guess and wonder at those who live and die with this other greater Mother The land to the traditional Shoshone is sacred it is the basis for our lives T o lake away Ihe land is to take away the lives of the pe<>ple Raymond Vowel I. WSSLA. 1980 It is these people who feel the desecration before the rest of us when the earth and sky are sick ened They see and hear and sense the signs because they can (and we cannot) and because they are there Countries with nuclear capa bililies seem to find the lands of native peoples convenient for test ing nuclear devices The Soviets have tested in Kazakhstan and NovayaZemyla China on the lands of the Uygur; France tests in Polynesia Great Britain first tested on Aboriginal land in Australia and now joins the United States in lest . A mg on Western Shoshone land in if X Nevada In spring of 1954. in response 3 to the Viet Minh seige of Dien Bien Phu, Admiral Arthur Radford. Chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposed using tactical atomic weap ons to relieve the French Discour aging the idea. General MacArthur wrote to Secretary of State John <4 Foster Dulles, saying, among other things, that the Soviet propoganda machine would evidence our de 5 sire to use such w eapons in < Indochina as prtxif of the fact we were testing out weapons on native > peoples This began on Western 3 Shoshone land in 19 5 1 The events which Donna will join include, according to the spon sors. an Indigenous People s Forum with indigenous testimony and pre sentalions, indigenous and disar mament workshops, skills sharing, strategy discussions and multi cul tural celebration, a demonstration at the Nevada Test Site Operations Office in Las Vegas, the final 4 day. 65 mile completion of two, 3000 mile continental Walks Across al and Mass Ntmvk»¡cm Acti wt , Oct 12 500 years Com me mo - ration 2 2 2 Those who wish more infix' malion may contact Western Shoshone National Council POBox 140 l I 5. Duckwater. 4$ 14 4 American Peace Test PO Box«©®- 26725, Las Vegas NV 8 9 126. L (702.»386 9834 Citizen Alert POBox 16 8 1.Las Vegas NV 8 9 125. (702)648 8982 Nevada Desert Experience PO Box 4487 Las Vegas. NV 8 9 127 (702)646 4814 Do not believe anything sim ply because you have heard it Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed d o w n for many generations Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious bixiks Do not believe in anything merely on the the the authority of your teach ers and elders But after va tion and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the g o o d and benefit of all then accept it and live up to it That s what the Buddha said tT "All it takes for evil to win is for good men to do NOTHING!” 41 S a h o lla d « / •« a * K la a . o r 0 7 1 3 8 503 738 4203 e a r t h t id e k > o 1 a n ic « l a n d c u l i n a r y b a r b a b a r b a i p ro d u c t» fo r w a lln a a a a n d b a la n ç a herbaligist / molly stromholt I owner