News from Indian Country
Page 8 Spilyay Tymoo September 2, 2004
Archaeologists find remains along Ohio
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -Archaeologists
have uncovered
preliminary evidence of human
remains presumed to be from
an ancient American Indian
settlement along the Ohio River.
The discovery has prompted
the Army Corps of Engineers
to contact Indian tribes to dis
cuss how to handle and test what
might be human bone frag
ments. Anne Bader, cultural re
sources program manager for
AMEC Earth & Environmen
tal, the company hired by the
corps to perform the dig, said
it's unclear if the bones are the
same type that turned up in late
2002 at Shippingport Island in
Louisville, Ky.
The artifacts in Clarksville
include animal bones, fish hooks
and tools made of chipped rock.
They are most likely from a
settlement that existed between
1000 and 1600, in what is called
the Mississippian period, she
said.
"These people, whoever they
were, they were eating very
well," Bader told The Courier
Journal of Louisville.
She said many of the items,
which have filled 350 to 400
bags, are related to cooking and
eating.
Workers located three dis
tinct areas where Bader said
wooden posts were likely used
to support dwellings of mud
and thatch. Pieces of woven
grass could have served as floor
mats or roofing material.
The dig began about three
weeks ago, after officials with
the corps' Louisville district of
fice announced the discovery of
several dozen artifacts.
They were uncovered during
the construction of a bridge over
nearby Mill Creek, and more
turned up this spring after a sec
tion of shoreline collapsed into
the Ohio River. Keith Keeney,
a staff archaeologist for the
corps, said a preliminary report
on the artifacts will be presented
to Indiana's State Historic Pres
ervation Office.
The Indian tribes involved in
the project may include the
Delaware, Miami, Peoria and
Shawnee, he said. Mike Saffran,
a project manager for the corps,
said the archaeological work has
delayed repairs to the shoreline
by about two or three weeks.
The corps hopes to complete
its repairs by the end of Octo
ber, Saffran said. An erosion
resistant fabric will be placed
between the remaining artifacts
and the repaired shoreline, he
said, to prevent the remains
from being disturbed further.
Yakama leader eager to build wind farm
Councilman wants
BPA off his land
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - A
Yakama Indian tribal leader
wants the Bonneville Power
Administration to remove
power lines from his property
so he can lease it to a wind farm.
Yakama Tribal Councilman
Leo Aleck is suing the regional
power marketing agency on be
half of 22 other tribal members
with property where BPA leases
have expired.
Aleck said they can make
more money by leasing the land
for wind farms.
Ed Mosey, a spokesman in
BPA's Portland, Ore., headquar
ters, said Friday that the dispute
involves easements on lands
within the reservation bound
aries, but which are privately
owned by individual families, or
groups of families of tribal
members.
He said the agency has been
trying to reach settlements on
new leases.
The BPA has made settle
ment offers to some landown
ers based on the value of pas
ture land, said Tom Nelson, a
lawyer who represents Aleck.
But the property would be
worth 50 times its current value
if wind turbines are erected,
wind farm developer Bruce
Morley said. Morley has worked
with Indian tribes in other states
to develop wind-generated elec
tricity. "It certainly has good poten
tial as a wind power source,"
Morley said. "It would be a
worthy use of the Indian land
because it would be using some
thing from Mother Nature and
create clean power."
Property owners would re
ceive a lease agreement for the
turbines and a share in profits,
Morley said.
Aleck said he learned earlier
this year that a 50-year lease on
Columbia River property he and
two sisters inherited from their
mother expired in May 2003.
Their mother was given a
one-time payment of $170 for
the 160-acre lease, he said.
Some landowners are wor
ried that the BPA would seek
condemnation action for the
properties the transmission lines
cross.
Legally, BPA can claim a right
of way, Nelson said.
Nelson said Aleck could
block any condemnation move
because he donated some of his
easement property to the
Yakama Nation, which is sov
ereign. Condemnation would be a
last resort, BPA spokeswoman
Darby Collins said.
Dana Peck, director of the
Klickitat County Economic
Development Department, said
larger wind farms would bring
the most benefits, allowing elec
tricity to be made at a lower cost,
bringing jobs to the area and
creating much-needed electricity.
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Medicine man warned of federal
charges for distributing peyote 1
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -A
Utah man offering peyote at
religious ceremonies may be
immune from state prosecution,
but federal authorities warn they
may step in to file charges.
Richard Lambert, chief of
the US. attorney's criminal divi
sion for Utah, told James "Flam
ing Eagle" Mooney and his wife,
Linda, they could be liable un
der federal drug laws if they
continued using or offering
peyote to others.
"Although the Utah Supreme
Court has recently ruled that you
may sell or otherwise distribute
peyote under state law, that rul
ing does not control or bind the
federal government," Lambert
said in an Aug. 20 letter to the
couple.
Lambert said his office is "re-
rr'im r
Viewing your conduct for con
sideration of seeking federal
charges."
A spokeswoman for the U.S.
Attorney's Office declined to
comment on how close federal
officials were to making good
on the threat.
The Utah Supreme Court
OK'd religious peyote use in
June for any member of the
Oklevueha Earthwalks Native
American Church. As a result,
state drug charges were dropped
against Mooney, who calls him
self a medicine man and part
American Indian.
But federal prosecutors may
challenge James Mooney's asser
tion that he is one-quarter Semi
nole. "I think this is mean-spirited
and in complete disrespect of
the Utah Supreme Court deci
sion," said civil rights attorney
Kathryn Collard, who repre
sents the Mooneys and their
church. "This is not an area
where federal law pre-empts
state law. This is more harass
ment and persecution of these
people, and it ought to stop."
The state case was launched
with a raid that seized 12,000
peyote buttons in 2000 from
the Mooneys, who worship
peyote as a sacrament.
Mooney said church mem
bers had been making prepara
tions to take peyote again when
the federal warning arrived.
"They want to put me and
my wife in prison for the rest
of our lives for what, helping
people?" the 60-year-old
Mooney said last week.
Tribes mark Lewis and Clark bicentennial
CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. (AP)
- The first recognized Lewis and
Clark bicentennial event to be
organized by American Indians
has begun here along the Mis
souri River.
About 300 people gathered
Thursday night to tell stories and
dance at the event, called "Oceti
Sakowin Experience: Remem
bering and Educating."
The opening ceremony in
cluded a prayer and more than
40 flags representing the tribes
that the explorers met along their
journey to the Pacific Ocean.
"Chamberlain has a Lewis
and Clark story that is different
from Sioux City (Iowa), Bis
marck (N.D.) or Portland
(Ore.)," said Jeff Olson of the
National Park Service, which
heads up the traveling exhibit
known as "Corps II: 200 Years
to the Future."
It is the 44th stop for the
Park Service's traveling exhibit,
which is designed to let people
experience living stories of the
people and the landscapes along
the route. The national tour
started in January 2003 and has
attracted more than 250,000
people.
Eleven members of a St.
Joseph's Indian School dance
group performed.
"When they got here and saw
all the people, and their friends
and families, they were so ex
cited," said LaRayne Willard, the
students' Native American stud
ies teacher.
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