Tuesday, December 06, 2005
View from the Red Road
Protect Yellowstone Bison
House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428
There is currently a great need for tribal council resolutions and letters from groups, organizations and individuals supporting the federal legislation reintroduced in this year’s congress as “House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428” (originally introduced [but not adopted] as “H.R. 3448”) and known as the “Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act.”
For more information, see: www.buffalofieldcampaign.org
Tribal Council Resolutions Needed!
The following is a resolution that was adopted by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota in 1997, which is in need of updating by the tribe as well as all others (urge the Indigneous Nation in your area to adopt this resolution as soon as possible to insure their place at the upcoming press conference and benefit to be called in the future).
ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE
Resolution No. 97-87
WHEREAS: the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is a federally recognized Indian Tribe organized pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1943 and all pertinent amendments thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation is governed by a Tribal Council made up of elected representatives who act in accordance with the powers granted to it by its Constitution and by-laws; and
WHEREAS, the buffalo is of significant spiritual and cultural value to the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation and thee Great Sioux Nation and we have an inherent right and responsibility to protect the buffalo; and
WHEREAS the participants of the Interagency Bison Management Plan (formerly “Interim Bison Management Operating Procedures”) have failed to consult with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation or the Great Sioux Nation; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council and the RST Land and Natural Resource Committee strongly object to the decimation of the Yellowstone Buffalo herd; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council and the RST Land and Natural Resources Committee further object to the continuing deaths by starvation of the Yellowstone Buffalo; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal National and the RST Land and Natural Resources Committee desires to put an end to the management practices that are grossly insensitive to the spiritual and cultural beliefs of the people of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal National and the Great Sioux nation and because historically, the buffalo became almost extinct due to similar wholesale and unregulated slaughter; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe object to the current management of the Yellowstone Buffalo herd and hereby request that further management of the Buffalo herd be changed to reflect the spiritual and cultural beliefs and practices of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal People.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the state of Montana, the President of the United States, the Department of Interior, the Yellowstone National Park, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Forest Service, the United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service consult with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation and the Tribes of the Great Sioux Nation regarding a modified management plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council requests immediate action to protect the remaining Yellowstone Buffalo herd
This is to certify that the above Resolution (No. 97-87) was duly passed by the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council in session on April 14, 1997, by a vote of Twelve (12) in favor, None (0) opposed and None (0) not voting. The said resolution was adopted pursuant to authority vested in the council. A quorum was present.
Letters Needed!
The following is a support letter from the United Lumbee Nation of North Carolina.
DEER CLAN - REGARDING THE FUTURE OF BUFFALO AT YELLOWSTONE PARK
Dear Honorable Grand Mother Earth Children,
It is all about defending and protecting the Yellowstone Buffalo Herds, America's only continuously natural – not wild, herds of free-ranging Bison (only those who would murder and annihilate them are truly wild). Grand Mother Earth human children must be the voice for the beings of nature – our superiors, for the Natural People, the Animals, who don’t speak “english” or in the concept of imaginary lines or maps. We must speak up for the Great Bison People!
The government has built traps to keep the Buffalo from their calving grounds. Let these that we share the earth with, give birth and eat grass on this little strip of land called Horse Butte. We must realize, this is not just about cattle and clear-cut forests – but should also include the health, welfare and happiness of our Animal Relatives.
We want the slaughter to stop and the Bison to be free. We want to urge you to use the power of your elected officials to support legislation that protects Bison and their habitat. Currently, the Bill House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 is being considered in the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. To help this effort, tribal council resolutions are needed, especially from those Montana and 1851 Treaty Nations nearest the Yellowstone National Park.
The good bi-partisan efforts by Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Charles Bass (R-H) introduced House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 in the House.
House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 calls for the following:
1) A three year moratorium on the hazing, capturing, and slaughtering of the country's last wild Bison, the Yellowstone herd, both within the Park and on the adjacent Federal Public lands in Montana, so that common sense solutions can be worked out.
2) Dismantling of the “Stephens Creed Trap” located inside Yellowstone National Park.
3) Allowing the natural Bison to freely roam Yellowstone National Park and adjacent Public Lands and designated “wildlife habitat” areas.
4) Directs the National Park Service and National Forest Service to acquire additional habitat for free-roaming bison in Montana, using such methods as conservation easements and acquisition, both on Private and other Public lands, and to also settle the current conflict with the “Church Universal and Triumphant.”
5) Returns sole jurisdiction to the National Park Service to manage Bison within the Park, free of pressure and influence from the USDA or the Montana livestock industry and their rich lobbyists in Washington, DC.
House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 has at this time many co-sponsors and a corresponding Senate Bill was introduced in the summer of 2004, which may also be reintroduced shortly.
The entire Montana beef production represents only one quarter of one percent of the entire u.s. beef economy and should not jeopardize the pristine National Park System in honor of a few cronies using racism and animal abuse to put meaningless profits in their personal bank accounts.
Taxpayers bear the burden of Public Lands that are ranched. Over 307 million acres of Public Land in sixteen western states are leased to ranchers at a fraction of its market value, subsidized by taxpayers.
As the Yellowstone Herd grazes peacefully on Public Lands surrounding the Park Lands during harsh winter months – areas defined legally as “Wildlife Habitat”, the Montana livestock industry sounds the “fear alarm.” They even make false claims (which are reported in propaganda to various manipulated news sources) that the Bison may someday become “infected” with a disease called “brucellosis” – a disease never found in Yellowstone Bison! This tactic is employed just so the few cattle grazing operations who are close buddies to the forest service officials in DC (related) can have their tiny leases at the expense of the Bison families who suffer losses to their kinfolk.
May the Great Mystery find you thankful for all that you have and guide you through all of your endeavors.
DEER CLAN United Lumbee Nation
See “Yellowstone Bison Protection Petition” at:
http://new.petitiononline.com/Ptehcaka/petition.html
We, the undersigned support the House of Representatives Bill entitled the Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act (H.R. 2428) which is designed to protect Yellowstone bison from unnecessary management practices and calls for the following:
1) A three year moratorium on the hazing, capturing, and slaughtering of the country's last wild Bison, the Yellowstone herd, both within the Park and on the adjacent Federal Public lands in Montana, so that common sense solutions can be worked out.
2) Dismantling of the “Stephens Creed Trap” located inside Yellowstone National Park.
3) Allowing the natural Bison to freely roam Yellowstone National Park and adjacent Public Lands and designated “wildlife habitat” areas.
4) Directs the National Park Service and National Forest Service to acquire additional habitat for free-roaming bison in Montana, using such methods as conservation easements and acquisition, both on Private and other Public lands, and to also settle the current conflict with the “Church Universal and Triumphant.”
5) Returns sole jurisdiction to the National Park Service to manage Bison within the Park, free of pressure and influence from the USDA or the Montana livestock industry and their rich lobbyists in Washington, DC.
See www.1851Treaty.com for more information about Indigenous Red Nations and Peoples.
House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428
There is currently a great need for tribal council resolutions and letters from groups, organizations and individuals supporting the federal legislation reintroduced in this year’s congress as “House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428” (originally introduced [but not adopted] as “H.R. 3448”) and known as the “Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act.”
For more information, see: www.buffalofieldcampaign.org
Tribal Council Resolutions Needed!
The following is a resolution that was adopted by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota in 1997, which is in need of updating by the tribe as well as all others (urge the Indigneous Nation in your area to adopt this resolution as soon as possible to insure their place at the upcoming press conference and benefit to be called in the future).
ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE
Resolution No. 97-87
WHEREAS: the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is a federally recognized Indian Tribe organized pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1943 and all pertinent amendments thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation is governed by a Tribal Council made up of elected representatives who act in accordance with the powers granted to it by its Constitution and by-laws; and
WHEREAS, the buffalo is of significant spiritual and cultural value to the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation and thee Great Sioux Nation and we have an inherent right and responsibility to protect the buffalo; and
WHEREAS the participants of the Interagency Bison Management Plan (formerly “Interim Bison Management Operating Procedures”) have failed to consult with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation or the Great Sioux Nation; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council and the RST Land and Natural Resource Committee strongly object to the decimation of the Yellowstone Buffalo herd; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council and the RST Land and Natural Resources Committee further object to the continuing deaths by starvation of the Yellowstone Buffalo; and
WHEREAS, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal National and the RST Land and Natural Resources Committee desires to put an end to the management practices that are grossly insensitive to the spiritual and cultural beliefs of the people of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal National and the Great Sioux nation and because historically, the buffalo became almost extinct due to similar wholesale and unregulated slaughter; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe object to the current management of the Yellowstone Buffalo herd and hereby request that further management of the Buffalo herd be changed to reflect the spiritual and cultural beliefs and practices of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal People.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the state of Montana, the President of the United States, the Department of Interior, the Yellowstone National Park, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Forest Service, the United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service consult with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Nation and the Tribes of the Great Sioux Nation regarding a modified management plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council requests immediate action to protect the remaining Yellowstone Buffalo herd
This is to certify that the above Resolution (No. 97-87) was duly passed by the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council in session on April 14, 1997, by a vote of Twelve (12) in favor, None (0) opposed and None (0) not voting. The said resolution was adopted pursuant to authority vested in the council. A quorum was present.
Letters Needed!
The following is a support letter from the United Lumbee Nation of North Carolina.
DEER CLAN - REGARDING THE FUTURE OF BUFFALO AT YELLOWSTONE PARK
Dear Honorable Grand Mother Earth Children,
It is all about defending and protecting the Yellowstone Buffalo Herds, America's only continuously natural – not wild, herds of free-ranging Bison (only those who would murder and annihilate them are truly wild). Grand Mother Earth human children must be the voice for the beings of nature – our superiors, for the Natural People, the Animals, who don’t speak “english” or in the concept of imaginary lines or maps. We must speak up for the Great Bison People!
The government has built traps to keep the Buffalo from their calving grounds. Let these that we share the earth with, give birth and eat grass on this little strip of land called Horse Butte. We must realize, this is not just about cattle and clear-cut forests – but should also include the health, welfare and happiness of our Animal Relatives.
We want the slaughter to stop and the Bison to be free. We want to urge you to use the power of your elected officials to support legislation that protects Bison and their habitat. Currently, the Bill House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 is being considered in the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. To help this effort, tribal council resolutions are needed, especially from those Montana and 1851 Treaty Nations nearest the Yellowstone National Park.
The good bi-partisan efforts by Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Charles Bass (R-H) introduced House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 in the House.
House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 calls for the following:
1) A three year moratorium on the hazing, capturing, and slaughtering of the country's last wild Bison, the Yellowstone herd, both within the Park and on the adjacent Federal Public lands in Montana, so that common sense solutions can be worked out.
2) Dismantling of the “Stephens Creed Trap” located inside Yellowstone National Park.
3) Allowing the natural Bison to freely roam Yellowstone National Park and adjacent Public Lands and designated “wildlife habitat” areas.
4) Directs the National Park Service and National Forest Service to acquire additional habitat for free-roaming bison in Montana, using such methods as conservation easements and acquisition, both on Private and other Public lands, and to also settle the current conflict with the “Church Universal and Triumphant.”
5) Returns sole jurisdiction to the National Park Service to manage Bison within the Park, free of pressure and influence from the USDA or the Montana livestock industry and their rich lobbyists in Washington, DC.
House of Representatives (H.R.) 2428 has at this time many co-sponsors and a corresponding Senate Bill was introduced in the summer of 2004, which may also be reintroduced shortly.
The entire Montana beef production represents only one quarter of one percent of the entire u.s. beef economy and should not jeopardize the pristine National Park System in honor of a few cronies using racism and animal abuse to put meaningless profits in their personal bank accounts.
Taxpayers bear the burden of Public Lands that are ranched. Over 307 million acres of Public Land in sixteen western states are leased to ranchers at a fraction of its market value, subsidized by taxpayers.
As the Yellowstone Herd grazes peacefully on Public Lands surrounding the Park Lands during harsh winter months – areas defined legally as “Wildlife Habitat”, the Montana livestock industry sounds the “fear alarm.” They even make false claims (which are reported in propaganda to various manipulated news sources) that the Bison may someday become “infected” with a disease called “brucellosis” – a disease never found in Yellowstone Bison! This tactic is employed just so the few cattle grazing operations who are close buddies to the forest service officials in DC (related) can have their tiny leases at the expense of the Bison families who suffer losses to their kinfolk.
May the Great Mystery find you thankful for all that you have and guide you through all of your endeavors.
DEER CLAN United Lumbee Nation
See “Yellowstone Bison Protection Petition” at:
http://new.petitiononline.com/Ptehcaka/petition.html
We, the undersigned support the House of Representatives Bill entitled the Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act (H.R. 2428) which is designed to protect Yellowstone bison from unnecessary management practices and calls for the following:
1) A three year moratorium on the hazing, capturing, and slaughtering of the country's last wild Bison, the Yellowstone herd, both within the Park and on the adjacent Federal Public lands in Montana, so that common sense solutions can be worked out.
2) Dismantling of the “Stephens Creed Trap” located inside Yellowstone National Park.
3) Allowing the natural Bison to freely roam Yellowstone National Park and adjacent Public Lands and designated “wildlife habitat” areas.
4) Directs the National Park Service and National Forest Service to acquire additional habitat for free-roaming bison in Montana, using such methods as conservation easements and acquisition, both on Private and other Public lands, and to also settle the current conflict with the “Church Universal and Triumphant.”
5) Returns sole jurisdiction to the National Park Service to manage Bison within the Park, free of pressure and influence from the USDA or the Montana livestock industry and their rich lobbyists in Washington, DC.
See www.1851Treaty.com for more information about Indigenous Red Nations and Peoples.
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