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By Richard Wagamese
News From Indian Country 7-08
 In 1955 the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series, Elvis had us all shook up, William Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prize, Grace Kelly walked away with the Best Actress Oscar and I was born in a small northern Ontario town called Minaki. Much has changed since then. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, rock’n roll lost its King, Faulkner died an alcoholic death and Grace Kelly kept on walking into the arms of a prince from Monaco. Me? Well, in the words of the Grateful Dead, “what a long strange trip it’s been.”
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By Arne Vainio, M.D
News From Indian Country 7-08
 I assume it was a bright, sunny day when my father committed suicide. It was midsummer, 1963. It’s a time of year when the sky is clear, the birds are singing, the cicadas are buzzing and families are out having picnics. But not ours.
My mother and father owned a failing bar business called, of all things, “The Good Luck Tavern.” The business wasn’t doing well, and my father was not a good businessman. He gave credit to anyone, even if they couldn’t pay. He always had “get rich quick” schemes and once rented a truck to go to South Dakota to pick up a load of potatoes to sell. When he got back, he ended up giving away 100 pound sacks of potatoes, one sack at a time, to poor families. My mother told me he eventually gave them all away and never sold a single one. I suspect the bar was the same sort of business.
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By Martin Griffith
Reno, Nevada (AP) 7-08
 Hundreds of young American Indians gathered for a five-day conference were being urged to become politically active because the American Indian vote could make a difference in this year’s presidential election.
Jackson Slim Brossy, legislative associate of the nonpartisan National Congress of American Indians, said the Indian vote – which traditionally has been Democratic – is up for grabs this year as Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain both try to woo it.
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A new CD presents the Lakota side of Custer’s
demise in the legendary Battle of
the Little Bighorn through a historic collection of victory songs and oral
history.
Review by Nicole War Eagle
It is said that history is written by the victors, and while
that rings true in most cases, the Battle of the Little Bighorn has proven to
be the exception to the rule. According to the cliché, more ink has been
spilled on the epic encounter than blood was on the battlefield, but of those
thousands of books and articles, scarcely a handful have been published from
Lakota and Cheyenne historians – the descendants of the victors of the
long-debated, legendary battle.
But now there is one more, an authentic Lakota
voice communicating
the Lakota side of the battle in the Lakota language. On his new CD, The Lakota
Are Charging, Wilmer Stampede Mesteth (Wanapeya Najica), a direct descendant of
Little Bighorn veterans, performs the historic Lakota victory songs from the
battle.
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By Christine Graef
Akwesasne, Ontario (NFIC) 7-08
After 15 years of negotiation, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne accepted the terms of Ontario Power Generation’s damages to the St. Lawrence River during the past 50 years as well as a formal apology from OPG to “acknowledge its regret for the disregard of the Mohawks of Akwesasne.”
“The settlement is a start of a healing process,” said MCA spokesperson Brian David. “We’re in a time we’re seeing apologies made for wrongs done against people decades and centuries ago.”
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