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| Volume XXIII Number 12 | September 6, 2002 |
E-Mail to the Editor
Editor:
We are American Indian students making a webpage with all the Indian languages on it. We don’t have any Pueblo or Shoshone or Umatilla or other language or community links yet.We want to invite you onto our site. We would put your welcome message on our site. We would put the words "Let us all work together! (OR Unity! OR Unite!)", "Peace", "Joy", and "Hope" onto our site in Pueblo or Shoshone or Umatilla or other language. We could link to your website so other tribes will be able to find you. We have more than 100 tribes already. Will you help us with our project? We hope you will. Please contact us.
Thanks,
Mark, Doreen, Beni,
Maymanujib@hotmail.com
Editor:
I was recently fishing near Lakeport, Florida and during the week I visited the Brighton Seminole reservation. After driving around, I stopped at the casino and at the tribal trading post. I noticed that in both locations I observed no Indians being employed and wondered why.The next evening, I was in a restaurant and an older Indian man sat down at the table next to me. I introduced myself and asked if I could talk with him. I asked why it was that I had seen no Seminoles working on the reservation and he informed me that the residents didn’t need to work because the revenues from the casino provided each man, woman and child with a monthly income of $3,000.
Personally, I was amazed at the amount but was glad to hear that tribal members were benefiting from the casino but was concerned that monies should be spent on community improvements as well. After reading your website, I now know that the general community is being served.
However, the next morning I was at a bait store and asked a couple of non-Indian men and asked them to confirm the monthly income. They both agreed to the correctness of this but said that, "the money doesn’t come from the casinos, it comes from the government." So, my questions are:
a. is the monthly amount correct?
b. is it from casino and other tribal incomes or is it government monies?
c. if it is government monies from which government, state or federal and under what treaty or agreement are the monies being provided.I tried to find information about this on the BIA’s website but received a message that because of a court order the site was not available.
I am a retired American History teacher with more than usual knowledge about the western tribes. However, other than the basics I have little knowledge of the Seminoles but would like to know more. I would appreciate any information you may be willing and/or able to provide. Thank you.
Regards,
Larry Chapman
greenfield@highland-ohio.com
Editor:
I was wondering if there are any gatherings or native ceremonies, such as sweat lodge or drumming circles, still conducted and, if so, would they be open to a non tribal person? Although I am part native American, I am not seminole.If so, I would like to attend and also speak with a true medicine or holy man.
Any way to get involved at all or any information I would be grateful.
Chris
Leoeric@aol.com
Editor:
NCAI is holding its 59th Annual Session in San Diego, CA November 10-15, 2002 and is seeking artwork for the conference program cover. Please submit original art digitally by October 1, 2002.Art will be featured on cover with the artist s biography appearing on the back cover.
The theme for the conference is "United for Sovereignty: Our Right - Our Destiny" we would like the Four Directions incorporated in the piece.
If you have any further questions please contact Laura Purdy, Conference Director at 202.466.7767 or lpurdy@ncai.org.
Submit to:
NCAI
1301 Connecticut Avenue
NW Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20036
lpurdy@ncai.org
Editor:
I am really impressed with your website. I found it very easy to navigate, colorful, and extremely informative.I plan to use this with my class of 4th and 5th graders in Miami. I am researching other indian tribes as well and I hope to find other tribal websites to be as professional as this one.
I would be interested if your tribe has any type of educational resources such as brochures, pictures, and or lesson plans available. Please let me know.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Nimmer,
Technology Teacher
Howard Drive Elementary
Cosmos Center for the Gifted
Miami, FL
rnimmer@hd.dade.k12.fl.us
Editor:
I had the opportunity to work with the Broadcasting Department recently and I wanted everyone to know what a wonderful experience it was. I have worked with them before and let them know individually how much I appreciated their help but this time I want everyone within the tribal structure to know what a wonderful group of people they have working for them in the Broadcasting Department.I want to especially thank Iretta Tiger and Jay Holata for the work they did on our most recent video. Not only was Iretta always willing to give me and Jay some ideas but we laughed a great deal too. Jay was absolutely wonderful and he, too, was always there whenever I needed him.
Everybody who works for Broadcasting from James Hall and Janice Osceola in Big Cypress to the Brighton and Hollywood crew needs to be looked at as a department that Danny and Bobby have worked very hard to make it what it is today.
Thank you for the opportunity to work with you and I look forward to many other great times.
Maureen J. Vass
Editor:
I am a 6th grade teacher in Orlando, FL interested in obtaining an educational speaker who could address the history, way of life, and current culture of the Seminole Indians in Florida with a group of approximately 100 6th grade students.Do you provide this type of service. If so, could you provide program description/cost? If not, could you point me in the right direction?
Elizabeth & Billy
bsquare311@earthlink.net
Editor-In-Chief Virginia Mitchell responds: You can call either the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum at (954) 792-0745 or call Paul Buster at (954) 989-6840, ext. 1308.
Editor:
Questions about facilities at Big Cypress Campground...
Is there a cabin that sleeps 6?
Is one available for Labor Day weekend - Aug. 30. 31 and Sept. 1?
Is it air conditioned?
Total charge for that period - 6 adults and a dog. Thanks in advance for the information.Mary McArdle
ronandmary72@hotmail.com
Lucy Evanicki responds:
Thank you for the inquiry regarding the Big Cypress Campground. The answers to the questions are as follows:Yes, there are cabins that sleep six people; they have a kitchen, coffee pot and microwave.
Yes, one of these cabins is available Labor Day weekend.
Yes, they are air conditioned.
Cost: $75 per night and no dogs are permitted.Please call Sheila Barry at the Big Cypress Campground for further information and reservations 800 - 437 - 4102 and visit our website: www.seminoletribe.com/campground.
Editor:
As a former BIA employee at Seminole Indian Agency (I was Agency Superintendent from about 1963 to 1965) I am delighted and impressed at the resources the Seminole Tribe has devoted to Education and preservation of the Tribal Culture.I was blessed in that I worked there during the time that Billy Osceola, Bill Osceola, Willie Frank, Frank Billy, Howard Tiger and others were part of the Tribal leadership. This was the time when Billy Cypress was a college student at Stetson University. My sincere best wishes to the Tribes and its members.
Doyce L. "Spec" Waldrip
spwaldrip@aol.com
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