Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqi-m Springs, Oregon
June 10, 2004
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Lucinda Green cooks up some beans at the Collage
of Culture. It was a windy day during the Collage.
Peltier, journalist settle
lawsuit out of court
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -Leonard
Peltier has agreed to
dismiss a libel lawsuit over ac
cusations that he was involved
in the 1975 killing of fellow
American Indian Movement
member Anna Mae Pictou
Aquash, according to a court
document.
Peltier sued editor Paul
DeMain of Wisconsin-based
News From Indian Country in
May 2003 in U.S. District Court
in Minneapolis.
Aquash's frozen body was
found in February 1976 on
South Dakota's Pine Ridge In
dian Reservation. The 30-year-old
woman from Canada had
been shot in the head in Decem
ber 1975 after being taken from
Denver, Two men were charged
in the killing last year; one is
serving a life sentence for the
killing, the other is fighting ex
tradition from Vancouver, Brit
ish Columbia to South Dakota.
Peltier's lawsuit took issue
with an editor's note published
in March 2003 in which
DeMain wrote, "The primary
motive for the murder of Annie
Mae Pictou Aquash by other
members of the American In
dian Movement in mid-December
1975, allegedly was her
knowledge that Leonard Peltier
had shot the two agents as he
was convicted."
The lawsuit also challenged
DeMain's statement that Peltier
was actually convicted.
Peltier was convicted in 1977
of two counts of first-degree
murder, and courts have rejected
his appeals. He is serving two
back-to-back life sentences in
"Justice is possible for
both Anna Mae and
Leonard Peltier, but
justice won't be done in
either case by people
falsely pointing fingers. "
Barry Bachrach, lawyer
Leavenworth, Kan., for the
1975 killing of FBI agents Ron
Williams and Jack Coler on the
Pine Ridge reservation. Both
were shot in the head at point
blank range after they were in
jured in a shootout.
DeMain would not comment
Monday on the dismissal but
referred to a May 28 statement
in which he said he did not agree
to retract the statements he
made about Peltier. He wrote
"the lawsuit was frivolous and
without merit" and was intended
to limit free speech and the
search for truth in the Aquash
case.
But in a letter submitted to
the court and included in
DeMain's release, he wrote that
he does not believe Peltier re
ceived a fair trial nor did he have
anything to do with Aquash's
murder.
In a news release, Peltier law
yer Barry Bachrach said
DeMain's statement was the
only issue in the settlement and
money was not a part of it.
"Justice is possible for both
Anna Mae and Leonard Peltier,
but justice won't be done in ei
ther case by people falsely point
ing fingers," Bachrach wrote.
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casinos to union organizers
Kah-Nee-Ta offers safety tip
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -A
federal labor ruling could
open the door to unions trying
to organize workers at
Connecticut's two Indian-owned
casinos,
The National Labor Relations
Board last week issued a deci
sion in a California case that
ends a longstanding precedent
that excluded American Indian
employers from federal labor
law. The decision concerned a
California Indian tribe's refusal
to allow a particular union to
organize at its casino and bingo
hall. Indian reservations, which
have limited self-government,
have been exempt from federal
labor law until now.
"It could mean sweeping, pro
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for tens of thousands of Con
necticut residents who work at
the casinos," Attorney General
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day. "It ensures that working
men and women at Mohegan
Sun and Foxwoods have the
same protections as employees
anywhere else in the state un
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The decision could clear the
way for the 20,000 employees
who work at Foxwoods Resort
Casino and Mohegan Sun the
right to join unions, engage in
collective bargaining and take
their workplace complaints to a
federal agency.
The decision involved a dis
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Band of Serrano Mission Indi
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and the Hotel F.mployees and
Restaurant F.mployees Interna
tional Union, which is attempt
ing to organize casino workers
throughout the country.
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