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August 20, 2014

Shekóli.

What do a Jemez Pueblo artist who revived a

forgotten art form, a Lenape man practicing traditional

crafts for visitors at a historical site in Indiana, and a

legal effort by Navajo to quantify water rights to the

Colorado River have in common? They are all separate,

but powerful, assertions of sovereignty. They are also

the subjects of features in this issue.

Cultural sovereignty, the power of free and indigenous

peoples to express themselves in ever-evolving forms of

their own invention, is the focus of the first piece. In it,

Harlan McKosato interviews Joshua Madalena, whose

exploration of Jemez black-on-white pottery led him

to understand how his ancestors created astounding

ceramic works. This art form was extinguished during the Spanish

invasion 300 years ago. And it was lost until this remarkable man

dedicated his time to unlocking the mysteries developed and trea

-

sured by his people.

Similarly, Michael Pace educates Indiana cultural center visitors to

the world without settlers. Before he became the only Native do

-

cent at the center, guests would have thought there was no history

of the land before 1818, when Europeans arrived. Pace worked to

bring the traditions and living history of the Lenape to the public

through one-time demonstrations. His efforts led to a permanent

exhibit, where people can hear him speak his language, or examine

his beadwork. “People still come here thinking that if they meet an

Indian, I’m going to cut their heads off,” Pace says. “Native history is

very much out of sight, out of mind, but this land that we’re standing

on now, it used to be all Indian territory.”

If not the land, then the water: It is no secret that one

of the major issues of the next century will be over the

access and use of fresh water. While United States law

recognizes Indian nations’ rights to western waterways

and rivers as senior to those of the states or other users,

the dicey question of quantity bedevils the construction

of modern agreements. When there was plenty of water

to go round, sharing was easy. But now, in the time of

climate change, drought and increasing water shortages,

it behooves indigenous peoples to assert our rights well

in advance of encroaching interests. While the Navajo

lawsuit covered in this issue was dismissed on procedural

grounds, there will be no end to the Navajo Nation’s efforts and as

-

sertions.

Bringing these issues to the forefront is why this newsletter and its

companion website exist—so that informed readers and Indian com

-

munities can take action for positive change now.

N

Λ

ki

�

wa,

Ray Halbritter

Vol. 2, Issue 4 August 20, 2014

A Letter from the Publisher

Table of

Contents

2

commentary

3

n

ews

7

n

avajo

w

ater

s

uit

Dismisse

D

8

w

here

h

istory

m

eets

t

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D

ay

9

Firing

u

p

a

lost

tra

D

ition

11

tra

D

ewin

D c

lassi

F

ie

D

s

12

w

eek

in

p

hotos

14

web,

events,

letters

15

cartoon,

news

alerts

16

u

pcoming

p

ow

wows

17

the

big

picture

12

m

ontana

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IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com

August 20, 2014

2

commentary

Don’t Say That a Drug is a

Medicine

Donna Ennis

, a Tribal Elder at the Fond

du Lac Reservation and a member of

the board of directors of the Minnesota

Board of Social Work, cautions Natives

who rationalize their recreational use of

marijuana on therapeutic grounds:

I have a message for all of you “ston

-

ers” in our Native community: There is

nothing “traditional” about using a natu

-

ral herb found in our environment if you

smoke it for recreational purposes.

There are several natural ways to man

-

age your symptoms of depression and

anxiety. These include lifestyle change,

exercise, diet and counseling. If none of

this works for you, you can consider an

-

tidepressants.

Serotonin is produced by antidepres

-

sants, which are often lacking in the brain

in people with depression. THC, the ac

-

tive ingredient in marijuana, affects anan

-

damide, which is also present in the brain.

The interaction between the two can actu

-

ally increase depression and lead to other

mental illness, including schizophrenia.

There are other products like St John’s

Wort, which is an herbal supplement that

seems to mirror serotonin’s effects. The

bottom line is that marijuana can nega

-

tively affect your mental health.

Depression and anxiety are prevalent

in the Native community, maybe be

-

cause of the disproportionate amount of

trauma that we experience. But we need

to find ways to cope with and heal from

it, instead of indulging in yet another ad

-

diction and calling is a medical necessity.

We give away our power when we al

-

low addictions to control our lives. The

abuse of alcohol and the resulting trau

-

ma almost destroyed our Native com

-

munities. Nicotine addiction is wreaking

havoc in our community. Marijuana use

is another addiction that users will try

and rationalize as “recreational” and/

or “medically necessary.” In reality, it is

another crutch to avoid coping with our

trauma.

http://bit.ly/1mJKfWR

0

The Ignorance of Dinesh

D’Souza

The new book

America: Imagine the

World Without Her,

by the conserva

-

tive author

Dinesh D’Souza

, mistakenly

imparts European assumptions to Native

heritage, says ICTMN contributor Steven

Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape):

D’Souza ignores evidence of Indian na

-

tions and Indian nation territoriality, and

instead argues on the basis of ancient Eu

-

ropean notions of property. By presuming

the right to define us in limiting terms,

such as with the phrase “the Indian,” he

ignores that we are the original indepen

-

dent nations and peoples of this continent.

Using a quote from Cicero, D’Souza lik

-

ens the relationship of “the Indian” to the

continent of North American as analogous

to people seated in a theatre with limited

seating. “The ancients also assumed,” says

D’Souza, “that the amount of land, like the

number of seats in a theatre, is generally

fixed, so it’s not right to take up more land

than you need.”

D’Souza then uses John Locke’s ideas

to argue that “the Indian” did not have

property rights on the continent because

“he” did not mix “his” labor with the land.

“So where do property rights come from?”

D’Souza asks. He answers: “Locke argues

that that when we ‘mix’ our labor with

land, we come to own the land as well.”

D’Souza takes ideas developed by white

men, which the Europeans brought inva

-

sively to our part of the world, and uses

them to judge us and our Original Nations

according to the white man’s thinking. He

falsely presumes that our nations and peo

-

ples became rightfully subject to the white

man’s ideas as soon as he showed up on

our shores.

How strange for an immigrant Chris

-

tian activist from India to be a pro-colo

-

nial and pro-imperial thinker on behalf

of the self-described American empire.

http://bit.ly/1sxRAQr

0

The Risks of Auditing Tribal

Sovereignty

David E. Wilkins

(Lumbee), McKnight

Presidential Professor in American

Indian Studies at the University of Min

-

nesota, takes issue with third parties who

attempt to determine the legitimacy of

tribal members:

Deciding who deserves to be a bona fide

citizen/member of an indigenous nation,

we are told, is one of the most fundamental

powers of a tribal nation.

Within Indian Country, the important

task of compiling an authentic and verifi

-

able roll should be done without having

to resort to paying outside organizations

or consultants, even those who identify as

being Native or Native-owned. These third-

party corporate entities will never have the

same core values, historical understanding,

or fundamental commitment that compe

-

tent, rightly empowered, and fully trained

tribal members possess—just as long as

these tribal members are armed with the

necessary historical data and member-giv

-

en authority to complete the task.

Tribal citizens must provide this author

-

ity by demanding that their leaders develop

and employ sensible, transparent policies

that offer a realistic pathway to gain or re

-

tain citizenship, as well as a fair process to

question and appeal decisions. No nation

should pit sovereignty against human and

civil rights. As the preeminent Native theo

-

rist Vine Deloria Jr. once wrote, “[C]ontin

-

ued deprivation of the rights of individual

Indians by tribal governments using the

shield of tribal sovereignty is much more

destructive of Indian communities in the

long run than revision of the rolls.”

Let us follow Deloria’s advice and seek

to clarify—not deplete—our nations’

memberships. And let us not continue to

engage in the hiring of outside firms for

intimate and internal decisions such as

membership. Many of these businesses

are, of necessity, generally more com

-

mitted to revenue generation than indig

-

enous nation membership clarification.

http://bit.ly/1lSNNWs

0

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August 20, 2014

San Francisco Peaks to Get

20 More Years of Sewage

Snow

Flagstaff, Arizona has extended the con

-

troversial wastewater contract of the

Snowbowl recreational facility for 20

years. This means that the mountains that

are sacred to 13 tribes will continue to be

subject to the application of artificial snow

made from treated sewage through 2034.

“This extension amounts to commit

-

ting 3.6 billion gallons of treated sewage

to be sprayed on a sensitive mountain eco

-

system,” said Klee Benally of Protect the

Peaks, a consortium of groups opposing

the plan. “This is where indigenous people

pray and where children will be exposed

to harmful contaminants in snow made

from this effluent. This is incredibly of

-

fensive, unsustainable and ultimately irre

-

sponsible considering the escalating water

crisis we’re facing in the Southwest.”

Flagstaff announced the extension on

August 8; the Snowbowl had asked for the

extension at the end of July. Neither city

council approval nor a public hearing was

required because the extension constitut

-

ed a renewal rather than a new contract,

and was thus considered an administrative

matter, the

Arizona Daily Sun

said.

The reclaimed wastewater has been used

to create snow for skiers since late 2012.

Though legal challenges have bogged the

project down every step of the way, the

project has gone ahead.

Under the agreement, whose terms

remain unchanged, the Snowbowl will

continue to have access to as much as

1.5 million gallons daily from November

through February, and the utilities director

can approve up to 2.25 million gallons per

day, the

Sun

said.

http://bit.ly/1sSfuny

0

Keystone XL Carbon

Emissions Could Run

Four Times Higher Than

Current Estimates, Says

Study

The Keystone XL pipeline could gen

-

erate four times more carbon emis

-

sions than the State Department’s

environmental analysis of the project

estimates, a new report concludes.

The Stockholm Environmental In

-

stitute estimated that Keystone XL

production in the Alberta oil sands

could add 121 million more tons of

carbon dioxide net equivalent emis

-

sions annually, as opposed to the State

Department’s estimate of 30 million

tons, the Associated Press reported.

“This spread is four times wider than

found by the U.S. State Department,

which did not account for global oil

market effects,” said the authors of the

Stockholm study.

Supporters of the $7 billion,

1,700-mile-long pipeline system from

the Alberta oil sands of western Can

-

ada to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast

said that the study was inconsequen

-

tial because the oil sands would be

mined with or without Keystone XL.

President Obama has said he would

not approve the project if it would

increase the carbon footprint of the

oil sands and lead to their increased

development.

Considerations of Keystone XL’s

potential effect on the market by in

-

creasing consumption and lowering

prices is “an aspect that has received

remarkably little attention among

existing Keystone assessments,” the

Stockholm authors said in their in

-

troduction to a draft of their report

from last year. This year’s version re

-

flects the State Department’s estimates

potential carbon footprint in its final

environmental analysis.

President Obama’s decision is pend

-

ing while federal agencies weigh in on

whether the project would be in the

U.S.’s best interests, following a court

decision that struck down of a Nebraska

law that would have allowed the pipe

-

line to proceed.

http://bit.ly/1Baj6Gc

0

American Indian Alaska

Native Tourism Association

Joins With Native American

Rights Fund in Pledge of

Partnership

The American Indian Alaska Native

Tourism Association (AIANTA) has

reached a Memorandum of Understand

-

ing with the Native American Rights

Fund (NARF) for the education and de

-

velopment of sustainable tribal tourism.

This memorandum “for sustainable

tribal tourism education and develop

-

ment has been set in place to establish

a framework for cooperation between

AIANTA and NARF in their shared in

-

terests of sustaining American Indian,

Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian

tribal welfare as well as their traditions

and culture through tourism,” said John

Echohawk, executive director of the Na

-

tive American Rights Fund.

AIANTA Executive Director Camille

Ferguson and Echohawk teamed up

to unveil the memorandum last week,

making the working partnership be

-

tween the organizations official.

“This is an exceptional advancement

for Indian Country tourism,” said Fer

-

guson. “Both AIANTA and NARF strive

to protect and sustain tribal traditions

and sovereignty through education and

protection of culture and resources. This

new partnership will benefit both organi

-

zations through coordination and coop

-

eration in the development, conservation

and management of tribal tourism.”

The memorandum is designed to es

-

tablish a cooperation between American

Indian and Alaska Native tourism, travel

and recreation interests and sustainable

tourism that protects tribal natural re

-

sources, preservation of tribes and edu

-

cation of the public about Indian rights,

laws and issues. Through work accom

-

plished under this official partnership,

the two organizations will uphold the

principles of sustainable travel and tour

-

ism development, including protection

of natural resources, tribal sovereignty

and the accountability of governments

to Native Americans through public

education.

This new cooperation will enhance

collaboration opportunities between the

two groups, while also supporting the

long-term economic viability of tribal

communities.

http://bit.ly/1BbvQwm

0

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August 20, 2014

Shekóli.

What do a Jemez Pueblo artist who revived a

forgotten art form, a Lenape man practicing traditional

crafts for visitors at a historical site in Indiana, and a

legal effort by Navajo to quantify water rights to the

Colorado River have in common? They are all separate,

but powerful, assertions of sovereignty. They are also

the subjects of features in this issue.

Cultural sovereignty, the power of free and indigenous

peoples to express themselves in ever-evolving forms of

their own invention, is the focus of the first piece. In it,

Harlan McKosato interviews Joshua Madalena, whose

exploration of Jemez black-on-white pottery led him

to understand how his ancestors created astounding

ceramic works. This art form was extinguished during the Spanish

invasion 300 years ago. And it was lost until this remarkable man

dedicated his time to unlocking the mysteries developed and trea

-

sured by his people.

Similarly, Michael Pace educates Indiana cultural center visitors to

the world without settlers. Before he became the only Native do

-

cent at the center, guests would have thought there was no history

of the land before 1818, when Europeans arrived. Pace worked to

bring the traditions and living history of the Lenape to the public

through one-time demonstrations. His efforts led to a permanent

exhibit, where people can hear him speak his language, or examine

his beadwork. “People still come here thinking that if they meet an

Indian, I’m going to cut their heads off,” Pace says. “Native history is

very much out of sight, out of mind, but this land that we’re standing

on now, it used to be all Indian territory.”

If not the land, then the water: It is no secret that one

of the major issues of the next century will be over the

access and use of fresh water. While United States law

recognizes Indian nations’ rights to western waterways

and rivers as senior to those of the states or other users,

the dicey question of quantity bedevils the construction

of modern agreements. When there was plenty of water

to go round, sharing was easy. But now, in the time of

climate change, drought and increasing water shortages,

it behooves indigenous peoples to assert our rights well

in advance of encroaching interests. While the Navajo

lawsuit covered in this issue was dismissed on procedural

grounds, there will be no end to the Navajo Nation’s efforts and as

-

sertions.

Bringing these issues to the forefront is why this newsletter and its

companion website exist—so that informed readers and Indian com

-

munities can take action for positive change now.

N

Λ

ki

�

wa,

Ray Halbritter

Vol. 2, Issue 4 August 20, 2014

A Letter from the Publisher

Table of

Contents

2

commentary

3

n

ews

7

n

avajo

w

ater

s

uit

Dismisse

D

8

w

here

h

istory

m

eets

t

o

D

ay

9

Firing

u

p

a

lost

tra

D

ition

11

tra

D

ewin

D c

lassi

F

ie

D

s

12

w

eek

in

p

hotos

14

web,

events,

letters

15

cartoon,

news

alerts

16

u

pcoming

p

ow

wows

17

the

big

picture

12

m

ontana

oFF

ice

oF t

ourism

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com

August 20, 2014

2

commentary

Don’t Say That a Drug is a

Medicine

Donna Ennis

, a Tribal Elder at the Fond

du Lac Reservation and a member of

the board of directors of the Minnesota

Board of Social Work, cautions Natives

who rationalize their recreational use of

marijuana on therapeutic grounds:

I have a message for all of you “ston

-

ers” in our Native community: There is

nothing “traditional” about using a natu

-

ral herb found in our environment if you

smoke it for recreational purposes.

There are several natural ways to man

-

age your symptoms of depression and

anxiety. These include lifestyle change,

exercise, diet and counseling. If none of

this works for you, you can consider an

-

tidepressants.

Serotonin is produced by antidepres

-

sants, which are often lacking in the brain

in people with depression. THC, the ac

-

tive ingredient in marijuana, affects anan

-

damide, which is also present in the brain.

The interaction between the two can actu

-

ally increase depression and lead to other

mental illness, including schizophrenia.

There are other products like St John’s

Wort, which is an herbal supplement that

seems to mirror serotonin’s effects. The

bottom line is that marijuana can nega

-

tively affect your mental health.

Depression and anxiety are prevalent

in the Native community, maybe be

-

cause of the disproportionate amount of

trauma that we experience. But we need

to find ways to cope with and heal from

it, instead of indulging in yet another ad

-

diction and calling is a medical necessity.

We give away our power when we al

-

low addictions to control our lives. The

abuse of alcohol and the resulting trau

-

ma almost destroyed our Native com

-

munities. Nicotine addiction is wreaking

havoc in our community. Marijuana use

is another addiction that users will try

and rationalize as “recreational” and/

or “medically necessary.” In reality, it is

another crutch to avoid coping with our

trauma.

http://bit.ly/1mJKfWR

0

The Ignorance of Dinesh

D’Souza

The new book

America: Imagine the

World Without Her,

by the conserva

-

tive author

Dinesh D’Souza

, mistakenly

imparts European assumptions to Native

heritage, says ICTMN contributor Steven

Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape):

D’Souza ignores evidence of Indian na

-

tions and Indian nation territoriality, and

instead argues on the basis of ancient Eu

-

ropean notions of property. By presuming

the right to define us in limiting terms,

such as with the phrase “the Indian,” he

ignores that we are the original indepen

-

dent nations and peoples of this continent.

Using a quote from Cicero, D’Souza lik

-

ens the relationship of “the Indian” to the

continent of North American as analogous

to people seated in a theatre with limited

seating. “The ancients also assumed,” says

D’Souza, “that the amount of land, like the

number of seats in a theatre, is generally

fixed, so it’s not right to take up more land

than you need.”

D’Souza then uses John Locke’s ideas

to argue that “the Indian” did not have

property rights on the continent because

“he” did not mix “his” labor with the land.

“So where do property rights come from?”

D’Souza asks. He answers: “Locke argues

that that when we ‘mix’ our labor with

land, we come to own the land as well.”

D’Souza takes ideas developed by white

men, which the Europeans brought inva

-

sively to our part of the world, and uses

them to judge us and our Original Nations

according to the white man’s thinking. He

falsely presumes that our nations and peo

-

ples became rightfully subject to the white

man’s ideas as soon as he showed up on

our shores.

How strange for an immigrant Chris

-

tian activist from India to be a pro-colo

-

nial and pro-imperial thinker on behalf

of the self-described American empire.

http://bit.ly/1sxRAQr

0

The Risks of Auditing Tribal

Sovereignty

David E. Wilkins

(Lumbee), McKnight

Presidential Professor in American

Indian Studies at the University of Min

-

nesota, takes issue with third parties who

attempt to determine the legitimacy of

tribal members:

Deciding who deserves to be a bona fide

citizen/member of an indigenous nation,

we are told, is one of the most fundamental

powers of a tribal nation.

Within Indian Country, the important

task of compiling an authentic and verifi

-

able roll should be done without having

to resort to paying outside organizations

or consultants, even those who identify as

being Native or Native-owned. These third-

party corporate entities will never have the

same core values, historical understanding,

or fundamental commitment that compe

-

tent, rightly empowered, and fully trained

tribal members possess—just as long as

these tribal members are armed with the

necessary historical data and member-giv

-

en authority to complete the task.

Tribal citizens must provide this author

-

ity by demanding that their leaders develop

and employ sensible, transparent policies

that offer a realistic pathway to gain or re

-

tain citizenship, as well as a fair process to

question and appeal decisions. No nation

should pit sovereignty against human and

civil rights. As the preeminent Native theo

-

rist Vine Deloria Jr. once wrote, “[C]ontin

-

ued deprivation of the rights of individual

Indians by tribal governments using the

shield of tribal sovereignty is much more

destructive of Indian communities in the

long run than revision of the rolls.”

Let us follow Deloria’s advice and seek

to clarify—not deplete—our nations’

memberships. And let us not continue to

engage in the hiring of outside firms for

intimate and internal decisions such as

membership. Many of these businesses

are, of necessity, generally more com

-

mitted to revenue generation than indig

-

enous nation membership clarification.

http://bit.ly/1lSNNWs

0

3

Ind

I

an Country

t

oday

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com

August 20, 2014

San Francisco Peaks to Get

20 More Years of Sewage

Snow

Flagstaff, Arizona has extended the con

-

troversial wastewater contract of the

Snowbowl recreational facility for 20

years. This means that the mountains that

are sacred to 13 tribes will continue to be

subject to the application of artificial snow

made from treated sewage through 2034.

“This extension amounts to commit

-

ting 3.6 billion gallons of treated sewage

to be sprayed on a sensitive mountain eco

-

system,” said Klee Benally of Protect the

Peaks, a consortium of groups opposing

the plan. “This is where indigenous people

pray and where children will be exposed

to harmful contaminants in snow made

from this effluent. This is incredibly of

-

fensive, unsustainable and ultimately irre

-

sponsible considering the escalating water

crisis we’re facing in the Southwest.”

Flagstaff announced the extension on

August 8; the Snowbowl had asked for the

extension at the end of July. Neither city

council approval nor a public hearing was

required because the extension constitut

-

ed a renewal rather than a new contract,

and was thus considered an administrative

matter, the

Arizona Daily Sun

said.

The reclaimed wastewater has been used

to create snow for skiers since late 2012.

Though legal challenges have bogged the

project down every step of the way, the

project has gone ahead.

Under the agreement, whose terms

remain unchanged, the Snowbowl will

continue to have access to as much as

1.5 million gallons daily from November

through February, and the utilities director

can approve up to 2.25 million gallons per

day, the

Sun

said.

http://bit.ly/1sSfuny

0

Keystone XL Carbon

Emissions Could Run

Four Times Higher Than

Current Estimates, Says

Study

The Keystone XL pipeline could gen

-

erate four times more carbon emis

-

sions than the State Department’s

environmental analysis of the project

estimates, a new report concludes.

The Stockholm Environmental In

-

stitute estimated that Keystone XL

production in the Alberta oil sands

could add 121 million more tons of

carbon dioxide net equivalent emis

-

sions annually, as opposed to the State

Department’s estimate of 30 million

tons, the Associated Press reported.

“This spread is four times wider than

found by the U.S. State Department,

which did not account for global oil

market effects,” said the authors of the

Stockholm study.

Supporters of the $7 billion,

1,700-mile-long pipeline system from

the Alberta oil sands of western Can

-

ada to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast

said that the study was inconsequen

-

tial because the oil sands would be

mined with or without Keystone XL.

President Obama has said he would

not approve the project if it would

increase the carbon footprint of the

oil sands and lead to their increased

development.

Considerations of Keystone XL’s

potential effect on the market by in

-

creasing consumption and lowering

prices is “an aspect that has received

remarkably little attention among

existing Keystone assessments,” the

Stockholm authors said in their in

-

troduction to a draft of their report

from last year. This year’s version re

-

flects the State Department’s estimates

potential carbon footprint in its final

environmental analysis.

President Obama’s decision is pend

-

ing while federal agencies weigh in on

whether the project would be in the

U.S.’s best interests, following a court

decision that struck down of a Nebraska

law that would have allowed the pipe

-

line to proceed.

http://bit.ly/1Baj6Gc

0

American Indian Alaska

Native Tourism Association

Joins With Native American

Rights Fund in Pledge of

Partnership

The American Indian Alaska Native

Tourism Association (AIANTA) has

reached a Memorandum of Understand

-

ing with the Native American Rights

Fund (NARF) for the education and de

-

velopment of sustainable tribal tourism.

This memorandum “for sustainable

tribal tourism education and develop

-

ment has been set in place to establish

a framework for cooperation between

AIANTA and NARF in their shared in

-

terests of sustaining American Indian,

Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian

tribal welfare as well as their traditions

and culture through tourism,” said John

Echohawk, executive director of the Na

-

tive American Rights Fund.

AIANTA Executive Director Camille

Ferguson and Echohawk teamed up

to unveil the memorandum last week,

making the working partnership be

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tween the organizations official.

“This is an exceptional advancement

for Indian Country tourism,” said Fer

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guson. “Both AIANTA and NARF strive

to protect and sustain tribal traditions

and sovereignty through education and

protection of culture and resources. This

new partnership will benefit both organi

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zations through coordination and coop

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eration in the development, conservation

and management of tribal tourism.”

The memorandum is designed to es

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tablish a cooperation between American

Indian and Alaska Native tourism, travel

and recreation interests and sustainable

tourism that protects tribal natural re

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sources, preservation of tribes and edu

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cation of the public about Indian rights,

laws and issues. Through work accom

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plished under this official partnership,

the two organizations will uphold the

principles of sustainable travel and tour

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ism development, including protection

of natural resources, tribal sovereignty

and the accountability of governments

to Native Americans through public

education.

This new cooperation will enhance

collaboration opportunities between the

two groups, while also supporting the

long-term economic viability of tribal

communities.

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