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News from Indian Country P^ge 9 Spilyay Tyvnoo November 8, 2007 fmwïïwsÊtmm Clues to history found in planned highway’s path ASPEN HILL, Md. (AP)— Five thousand years ago, this sun-dappled stand of' oaks, was a place where Native Americans came .to gather quartz and make tools. In the 1870s, an African American farmstead stood a few yards away. .NowJ archaeologists are working feverishly to learn all they can about those earlier chapters before this patch of Montgomery County assumes its next role in human history, part of the roadbed of the pro posed intercounty connector. J u st off Georgia Avenue, north o f Norbeck Road, field researchers hired by die Mary land Department of Transpor tation arq in their final days of digging, sifting, photographing and cataloguing the proposed route’s only known archaeologi cal site. , After 21/2. months, they’ve filled more than 175 boxes with artifacts, enough to fuel months’^, ot even years’, worth .Of laboratory analysis. • “We’re very excited,” said Julie Sehablitsky, cultural re sources manager for the State Highway Administration. “This gives usa chance to re-create the story o f what happened here thousands of years ago.” ; Archaeologists found the site in 2003 as a part o f a routine check o f future highway lands. H isto rical land docum ents pointed them to the old home stead. A nd the presence, of. quartz boulders and a small wet land, conditions to which ancient people were often drawn, led them to sink a series o f test holes. One of them turned up hand fuls o f the kind of quartz chips‘ that archaeologists see as a kind of Stone Age sawdust Someone had once made a lot of arrow heads, spear points and knife blades there. Scientists have not found evidence that the area was ever an established settlement in pre historic times. Rather, they think native folk visited periodically during the late archaic period to take advantage of the abundant quartz. They might also have harvested cattails from the nearby marsh, a material that once served as moccasin pad ding and diaper filling, Sehablitsky said. “I think this was probably a marketplace that people came to for thousands and thousands of years,” said Chris Polglase, an archaeological consultant run ning the dig. Education conference in Hawaii proves very popular FA R M IN G TpN ,\N .M . ship stands at almost 300,000, .(AP;)— M ore than \ 360 second only to the Cherokee people representing the 'Na- Nation. :,yajo Nation attended an edu Yet the Navajo .Nation sent cation conference: in Hawaii more than seven times the num at an estimated cost of more ber of delegates as the Chero- than $500/100, the D aily1 kees did to th e conference. The Times reported. \ Hawaii delegation had the most ,-Tfkibal officials declined to /representatives with, 545. release details about who be \ The National Indian Educa yond top administratorSitrav- tion Association hosted the four- eled and at what cost. The dav conference last month in trip made by. some public Hotiplulu. school district officials in the Some 362 representatives, regiqii cost at least $1,400 ¡jjf from the Navajo Nation prereg person, the newspaper re istered for the , conference and ported. paid a $'4.0d fee, said Kim The Navajo, N ation is Natcisso, accounting consultant country’s largest American for association. Forty-five Inchah reservation, spanning people representing the Chero 27?O0Ofsquafe miles itito kee Nation registered early, parts of New Mexico, Utah Narcisso said he believes the and Arizona. Tribal member ! location was the biggest draw.' < “Because it was Hawaii, we cials paid their own way to Ha got good attendance,” Narcisso waii, federal funds covered some said. “But frankly, I was sur of the trips.. prised to see so many people go.” The Navajo Nation Council ' uA; total of 3/200 people at sent 18 delegates to the confer tended this year’s conference, ence, where such topics as early 1,000 of whom registered on site. childhood education and issues A breakdown of onsite registra facing American Indian education tion was not immediately available, were discussed. but could boost the number of Council Speaker Lawrence representatives from the Navajo Morgan said it’s not unusual for Nation who attended. tribal lawmakers to travel on be About 1,900 people attended half of the sovereign nation. the association’s past two confer “The ^council delegates at ences,^ which \Cere hekliri Anchor te n d ed the convention,to rep age and; Denver. re se n t th è N avajo N a tio n ' ".(The. Centras! „Consolidated through their committee Over SehoOl.pisttict on the western side sight'function,’? said Morgan, of1 the Navajo reservation’ sent who also made the trip1. ‘As leg eight school officials, six Indian islators „of the nation, they Education Committee members needed to be involved and^ and two others, to this year’s con they did a wonderful job.” ' ference. While sbfoe school offM* Morgan’s office declined to say Badlands Park culls South Dakota bison herd BADLANDS NATIONAL Oglala Sioux Tribe, 2 5 'to ffie and pregnancy, and each animal’s PARK, S.p, (AP)— Badlands Standing Rock Tribe of North height and w eight were re National Park has donated 155 •Dakota, and 94 tw th e Spirit corded. buffalo J lq American Indian Lake Tribe o f N orth Dakota, The largest animal processed tribes as part of an ongoing ef according to the park. |this year was a 12-year-old bull Park employees and volun th at; weighed alrnost 2,300 fort to keep the park herd at a population the park’s habitat can teers receritly rounded up 441 pounds. The oldest animal was ' bison in the park. Blood samples a 27-year-old cow, according to support^,, -Thirty-three bison went to the were taken to test for disease Veterinarian Boyd Porch. ■. what the trip cost for each del egate and would not release in formation on how many del egates had attended past con-, ferences of the association. Joshua Lavar Butler, a spokesman for the Office of the Speaker, said the del egates’ travels were paid for through a fund for the coun cil committees that is written into the fiscal year budget. Former Education Com m ittee Vice C hairm an Wallace Charley said he be lieves the council sent more delegates than needed. “T h a t’s way, way too many,” he said. “Maybe they went to learn something. Well, we’re ready to hear /whát vthey’ve learned.” 3-chief Mohawk government recognized ST. REGIS MOHAWK RES- ERVATION/fN.Y (AP>—The US. Bureau of Indian Affairs has determined that it will|re<i- ognize the current, elected three- chief governm ent o f the St. Regis Mohawk tribe. The rttlingby Eastern Region Director Franklin Keel means that the United States will coti- duct its government-to-govern- ment business with the three- chief government, which has been in power since 1996. Keel’s decision Wednesday was the third time in the past 11 years that the bureau has de cided on the Mohawk leadership dispute. , In 1996* the bureau decided it would recognize the so-called 'Constitutional Tribal Council as«- the valid governm ent o f St. Regis, which straddles the U.S.- Canadian border in northerp New York - The Constitutional govern ment had been approved by a disputed- referendum vote in June 1995. ' Hpyrever, the.following year, St. Regis residents revoked the tribal constitution and voted to return to the three-chief system that had been in place prior to 1995. v In 2000, the BIA reversed itself and cast its recognition to the elected chiefs. Vote won’t end tribes’ interest in casino venture PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP)-—The chief o f the Mis sissippi Band o f Choctaws says the tribe’s interest in lo cating a casino on the coast will not end if a nonbinding gambing vote fails in J ackson County. Beasley Denson, who pre fers to be called “Miko,” the Choctaw word fpt chief,' has been making a series of speeches in Jackson County this week in support of the nonbinding ref erendum on the tribe’s proposed casino in Jackson County. Denson said in a speech to the Pascagoula Rotary Club that he is optimistic local residents will support the casino. „ “If it fails v^w i!! talk to the governor and see what are the parameters we have in the future. Who's to Say we might n o t build in H a rriso n of Hancock counties?” Denson said. “Then we become just an other casino,” I cun’s Repair & Anlo Sales Free towing w/engine or trans replacement from Warm Springs & Madras area Free Battery Check & Installation with purchase 475-6618 330 S.W. Culver Hwy. Madras, OR 97741 §
