WW/ From Benny Lee, More Winnemem News Sources

Hello Winnemem and Supporters,

In this email I've put links to all the media and photos that I am aware of from the War Dance. These links are also available at www.ejcw.org

Since my last email, Marc Dadigan put together a fantastic 5 minute radio piece on Free Speech Radio that airs on 93 stations across the US!

Radio
Capital Public Radio "Native American Community Files Lawsuit Against Federal Government" aired on NPR's Morning Addition and All things Considered on 4/20 and 4/21 by Steve Shadley,
Free Speech Radio , "California Tribe Sues for Destruction of Cultural Sites" aired on 93 stations nationwide, by Marc Dadigan

Articles
in the Redding Record: Winnemem Wintus sue federal agencies over Shasta Dam, other issues
In the Sacramento Bee: Payment Sought for Shasta Lands

Photos
Lonny Shavelson (requests that any duplication of photos has his permission first)
EJCW photos

YouTube
Will Doolittle put up a great clip on youtube of Caleen speaking at the capital.

Blogs and Web (over 20!!)

Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sues Federal Agencies, Officials: Indybay
(Dan Bacher) 20 April
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/20/18590483.php

NativeBiz – Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sues Federal Agencies, Officials
Indian Country's Business, News and Social Network (must be a member to view)
www.nativebiz.com/content/view/2140/179/

Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sues Federal Agencies, Officials
21 April, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, by Dan Bacher
(editor of Fish Sniffer)
www.calsport.org/4-21-09.htm

Indymedia-Lëtzebuerg - Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sues Federal Agencies
Indymedia-Letzebuerg - Internet Zeitung - journal Internet (Dan Bacher)
www.indymedia-letzebuerg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23111&Itemid=28

Indymedia-Lëtzebuerg - Winnemem Wintu Tribe Holds War Dance Before
Launching Federal Lawsuit (Bacher) 25 April
www.indymedia-letzebuerg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23462&Itemid=28

Winnemem Wintu Tribe sues federal agencies, officials
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven (Dan Bacher) 21 April
www.aquafornia.com/archives/8250

Indianz.Com > News > Winnemem Wintu Tribe files suit over lost land
April 21 (no author specified)
http://64.38.12.138/News/2009/014160.asp

Winnemem Wintus sue federal agencies over Shasta Dam, other issues
By Dylan Darling, 21 April. Redding Record Searchlight Online.
www.redding.com/news/2009/apr/21/winnemem-wintus-sue-federal-agencies-over-shasta/
(article has dozens of comments posted in response, contentious)

Winnemem Wintu tribe files lawsuit against feds
(staff authorship) 20 April. Redding Record Searchlight Online.
www.redding.com/news/2009/apr/20/winnemem-wintu-lawsuit-against-feds/
(article has dozens of comments posted in response, contentious)

antiracismdsa: Wintu Tribe sues the Federal Government
(Bacher article posted on Duane Campbell’s blog – Sacramento based) 24 April.
http://antiracismdsa.blogspot.com/2009/04/wintu-tribe-sues-federal-government.html

Winnemem Wintu Tribe Holds War Dance Before Launching Federal Lawsuit
(Bacher article on YubaNet.com) 25 April. No comments posted.
http://yubanet.com/regional/Winnemem-Wintu-Tribe-Holds-War-Dance-Before-Launching-Federal-Lawsuit.php

Winnemem Wintu position regarding Shasta Dam ABSTRACT
PDF doc by Mark Franco & Caleen Sisk-Franco (2002)
www.indian.senate.gov/2002hrgs/060402hrg/Franco.PDF

Government Native American >> Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com
WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE SUES FEDERAL AGENCIES, OFFICIALS. (contact Jamie Moss
or Brad Wise – no author specified) 20 April.
www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/native_american/

Archive - Apr 23, 2009 | FSRN (Free Speech Radio News)
California tribe sues for destruction of cultural sites
(5:03 minute long radio news segment) Apparently 93 stations carry FSRN
http://fsrn.org/archive/all/2009/4/23

Courthouse News Service
SACRAMENTO (CN) - The Winnemem Wintu Tribe says the Department of the ...
(couldn’t find this article)
www.courthousenews.com/

News Brief for Students (American Indian Recruitment Programs - Serving
the San Diego American Indian Community for over 15 years)
Winnemem Wintu tribe files lawsuit against feds (Record Searchlight article)
www.airprograms.org/

Dance Wars
Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sues Federal Agencies, Officials (Bay Area Indymedia)
(article didn’t appear on front page – maybe just listed?)
www.thewebnewsroom.com/dance-wars.php

Native American Law Blog
Winnemem Wintu tribe files suit to replace tribal lands flooded by the
1941 construction of Shasta Dam. 21 April.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nativeamerican/ (Links to Sac Bee article
by Cathy Locke, published 20 April.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1792984.html. 35 comments on Sac
Bee website)
Payment sought for Shasta lands – by Cathy Locke (found on Sac Bee website)
http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/1792984.html

Native American Rights Fund, National Indian Law Library
Back restoration of Winnemem Wintu recognition by supporting AJR 39
(seems like an old article but came up 26th in Google results)
www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/2008/recognition.htm

bofirebear (botipton) on Twitter
Winnemem Wintus sue federal agencies over Shasta Dam, other issues.
Located in Mt. Washington, KY. Link to Bacher article on Indymedia.
http://twitter.com/botipton
Bofirebear also has a blog: http://bofirebear.blogspot.com/

AIM WEST (American Indian Movement West)
WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE SUES FEDERAL AGENCIES, OFFICIALS. 21 April. (same
article as Jamie Moss/ Brad Wise one mentioned earlier)
http://www.aimwest.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145&Itemid=81

No blogs were found on the NYT, LATimes, SF Chronicle, WSJ, Reuters, AP, Modesto Bee.




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Benny Lee
Outreach Manager
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
1201 Martin Luther King Way
Oakland, CA 94612
Ph: 510.286.8402
Fax: 510.444.2502
benny@ejcw.org