Onondaga Information - Archive

The following materials are ones I've recieved via email, nothing has been altered or changed.

ishgooda wrote:

> Khwe,

> Would really appreciate some insight on who is who here..The information I

> have is Oren Lyons was involved with the behind closed doors dealing last

> spring with Pataki...this is not traditional behavior IMO..and leads to this

> kind of suspicion and mistrust. Especially when the paperwork which does

> eventually emerge shows an agreement for NY state to collect taxes on a

> sovereign nation...a definite erosion of the tribal sovereignty of which you

> speak of below. It is my understanding he also favors the MAI which permits

> corporations to operate within *soevereign* territories with finanacial

> impunity...essentially granting coporations sovereignty and freedom from

> fiscal responsibility for any damages done to the territory in operations of

> their businesses..

> Ish

> At 01:30 PM 3/4/98 EST, you wrote:

>In a message dated 98-03-04 06:11:21 EST, you write:

> > > ><< MNN Mohawk Nation News. 3-Mar-98. Today Beulah Powliss was informed by

> Ramona Shenandoah that Oren Lyons and his supporters are going to level the

> homes of Onondaga people who support the running of independent smoke shop

> businesses. "They are in a panic", Beulah Powliss said. "We don't know

> what to do. We need help! >> > >

>Do we know who these people are who are attacking Oren Lyons??? Do you all

> realize that Onondag is one of the ONLY traditional sovereign nation (not

> tribal/US govt imposed) on Turtle Island? This, he said-she said -is

> foolishness. If you research history, the "infamous???" Frank L. Baum (writer

> of the wizard of OZ) wrote similar stuff about Indian peoples which some feel

> led up to the massacres at Wounded Knee 1890!!!!!!!!! Please be cautious

> about believing everything you READ and HEAR!!!!!! In many respects the MNN

> News is very much like the Aberdeen newspaper that Frank Baum penned for.