He could have been a mu ici n, or ·Co.........bob t our ~othe pointed to the sun, a d we bur ,ed bri· htly • o'-'L..&.

During the 1800s, when che US expanded territory, they "purchased" land from che Dakotapeople as well as che ocher tribes

Ledger drawings from the nineteenth century illustrated male “exploits” in battle,as well as other activities associated with the demonstration of power, honor, and sta-tus. A drawing by Scares the Enemy, one of the Brule Lakota men caught up in theCrow Dog story,

A woman dreamed about standing on the back of a turtle,and it was decided that a turtle-shaped island would be the place wherethe people would go. The first stopping point of the Great Migrationwas likely an island near Montreal in the Saint Lawrence River, but thatwas only the beginning of their journey.

There were no “treaties” beforethe arrival of the whites, no alphabetic writing or “signatures” at all,although there were practices of making formal agreements between dif-ferent communities (wampum belts would be one example).

In the legend are instructions on the language of the land, how it was we forgot to acknowledge the gift

The land where you live-I n1ade it for yo u and not for other peo ple. Whydo you put up with the Whites 3 on your lands?

"I an1 the Mas ter of Life, a ndI know what yo u want to lea rn and whon1 you wish to speak with. Li ste n wellto what I am about to say to you, for your own sake and for all th e Indian s. 1an1 the one who 1nade Heave n and Ea rth, the tr ees , the lak es, th riv ers, andall people and everything you see and everything you hav e seen on Ea rth. Be -cause I n1ade all this and beca use I love you all, yo u must do what I say andwhat I love and not do what I hate. I do not at all love for yo u to drink your-selves senseless the wa y you do.

The consequences of disrupting the distributiveflow of energy could be dire. Numerous Abenaki stories tell of the disas-trous effects of hoarding resources and acting on selfish impulse, whilethe Haudenosaunee creation story emphasizes the critical difference be-tween participatory thinking and impulsive action.

Europeans were in the common pot, whether they knew it ornot, and they had brought with them ideas, behaviors, and materials thatcould potentially disrupt or even destroy it.

everywhere but could not even find his tracks. She searched for him in theneighboring mountains in vain. "Somebody has taken him away from me,"she thought.

When she found this out, she was more lonesome thanever. She went outside. "When Indians come," she thought, "they will dothis way."

Let us go • ewin m • . ,, h II . tnto thth lodge. The world is gomg bad. Sot ey a went m. And theysa·d " eear h h I d h l • I ' Let11the people together enter t e eart o ge; t e wor d 1sgoing bad ,,a So at noon they all entered the earth lodge. Then it blew. It blew te.rriblyEvery kind of tree fell down westward.

Attorney Coyle says in an email that she believes the university’s fund-raising activity has been unethical: “In essence, UC went out and fund-raised for a project prior to examining all constraints and performing environmental due diligence.”

Many of the artifacts appeared to beunwashed and they were not washed at the Center. Some artifacts were markedwith pen and ink directly on the artifact, some with a white paint-like substancefirst, others with a yellow china marker. Most of the artifacts were not bagged inplastic bags, but some were in paper bags.The first effort was to separate the artifacts by probable site number and try tomatch them up with the limited documentation available. The artifacts were4