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On August 13, 2008 the Mille Lacs Messenger published my letter, titled Change river name
On August 7, 2008 Indigenous Peoples Literature posted my articleThe Pope's remarks whitewashed the genocide of
Indigenous Peoples
I recently submitted the July 2, 2008 Isanti County News article
Canoe expedition connects Dakota youth with past
to Indigenous Peoples Liturature and you can view and read it by clicking Dakota group reclaimed the Rum River
I also recently submitted the July 2, 2008 Isanti County News article
Canoe expedition connects Dakota youth with past
to the (12,000 member) Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Nation's newspaper
and it was published in Sota Volume #32 Issue #32 Wednesday, August 6, 2008
addition.
Today, I found an article of mine titled Environmental activism posted on the Turtle Island Native Netword website.
The article can be viewed an read by clicking Environmental Activism
Care2 article: Dakota Indians reclaiming their Wakpa Wakan (Rum River)
My article "Regaining the Dakota's Mille Lacs Homeland" was published on The Good Red Road website. The article can be
viewed and read by clicking
The Good Red Road
An old "letter to the editor" of mine that was published in the Saint Cloud Visitor, a Minnesota Catholic diocesan newspaper, was recently
published in Indian Country Today, America's and the world's leading American Indian news source. It mentions the Rum River name change movement.
Its title is Supports restitution
A Minneapolis American Indian Center Dakota boy's group canoed down the Wakpa Wakan (Rum River) to connect
with the past and to proclaim that their people's Wakpa Wakan Watershead
ancestral/traditional homeland is still sacred to them and other Dakota people.
Dakota boy's group Isanti County News article - about
reclaiming the Wakpa Wakan...
The Mille Lacs Times reported Dakota boy's
canoe trip down the Wakpa Wakan (Rum River)...
An article of mine titled Evil doctrine was recently posted on the Mendota Mdewkanton Dakota Community's sister
website New For Natives. It can be viewed and read by clicking News For Natives - Evil doctrine.
On July 2 the Mille Lacs Messenger, Mille Lacs County's newspaper, published an article of mine titled
"Evil doctrine". The article is also posted on Care2
On June 28th Indigenous Peoples Literature posted my articleU.S. and states should establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
On June 17th Indigenous Peoples Literature posted my article Proposals to heal the genocidal wounds of
indigenous peoples. In the article, I quoted a statement made
by Louis Stanley Schoen in an article of his that was published in Minnesota's best-selling state-wide daily newspaper,
the Star Tribune.
"What if a public commission were to begin to examine the American (and European) history of white
supremacy -- and, here, how that doctrine shaped the formation of Minnesota and its public and private
institutions? What if such a commission learned how to offer leadership and resources to dismantle this
evil doctrine?"
After this quote, I wrote in my June 17th Indigenous Peoples Literature (IPL) article that the evil
doctrine that needs to be dismantled is the fifteenth century Papal Bull Inter Caetera. Steve Newcomb,
a writer for Indian Country Today (the world's leading American Indian news source) and an
internationally renowned leader of the movement to dismantle the Inter Caetera Papal Bull, contacted
me (reply e-mail) and wrote: "Thanks Thomas, Good Work!"
When a Minnesota public commission is established many of Newcomb's ICT articles should be used as a source
"to examine the American (and European) history of white supremacy". A list of Newcomb's ICT articles
and links to them can be viewed by clicking Steve Newcombs ICT articles
In my IPL article I also wrote: "I recently sent a proposal to Griff Wigley, the blogger of the Minnesota
Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for Native American Partnering blog and the committee's project leader,
wherein I asked Mr. Wigley to post Louis Stanley Schoen's article on the blog. And do so, because it is a
good article and also because I could then, in response to Schoen's posted article, post a comment with a
link to a petition of mine where tribal leaders and prominent non-Indian Minnesotans could add their names
and comments to this petition. A petition that asks the Governor of Minnesota [Tim Pawlenty] to establish a
public commission to accomplish the goals that Schoen proposed in his Star Tribune article."
Mr. Wigley not only posted a link to Louis Stanley Schoen's article he also presented a new addition to the
blog, titled: Does Minnesota need its own Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
This new addition to the blog includes a number of link to associated
articles and quotes from these articles. A link to my article that was published in Winona,
Minnesota's daily newspaper [Winona Daily News] was one of the links included in the blog's new addition.
A presentation of my article Proposals to heal the genocidal wounds of indigenous peoples that includes
reference links can be viewed and read by clicking healing genocidal wounds article.
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Winona Daily News published Tom's letter to the editor
State looks to settle up with the past
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Indian Country Today, the world's leading American Indian news source, recently published
an article which includes a paragraph about the movement to change the profane Rum River name.
It is located at:
http://nativeamericanminn150.org/archives/250
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The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community (MMDC) has a sister website where Native news about the
Dakota people is posted. The webmaster of the MMDC recently posted my MN Sesquicentennial Commission's
Native Partnering & Truth-Telling article. The MMDC's sister website posting of this article is located
at:
http://newsfornatives.com/blog/2008/06/02/mn-sesquicentennial-
commissions-native-partnering-truth-telling/
Indigenous Peoples Literature also post this article of mine. It is located at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_
literature/message/24895
Also, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation's on-line newspaper [Sota] posted this article of mine.
It can be viewed and read at:
Sota Volume #32 Issue #23 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Mendota Mdewkanton Dakota Community (MMDC) recently posted a "Rum River Name Change Organization" webpage on, both, its
website and sister website. Its title is "Videos of the Dakota's Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed ancestral
homeland".
Videos - MMDC website
Videos - MMDC sister website
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Cambridge, Minnesota's Star newspaper recently published Tom's
"Be inspired to radical change"
letter to the editor.
The editor of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation's online newspaper [Sota] recently published Tom's
article
Healing the painful wounds of genocide in Minnesota.
This article can also be viewed and read at
www.towahkon.org/Minnesotagenocide.html. Indigenous Peoples
Literature also recently published this article.
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The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission has a
web site with a homepage link to a blog site that is
guided by Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for Native American Partnering (SACNAP).
A statement on the MN Sesquicentennial Commission's site:
"The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission is committed to raising awareness and educating Minnesotans
about our past, recognizing the indigenous people of Minnesota, and learning from complex and diverse
cultures that have come and continue to come to Minnesota."
Two more statements on the MN Sesquicentennial Comission's we site:
"As StarTribune columnist Lori Sturdevant wrote in October, 2007, 'There's likely no
better opportunity for some serious truth-telling about early Minnesota than the yearlong
history lesson this state is about to commence.'"
"The lesson should reveal this truth: Minnesotans share a place, a climate, a
government. But they do not share one culture. They never did. And this state's
success -- maybe now more than ever -- depends on its people's ability to respect
cultures other than their own and peacefully resolve conflict between cultures."
The staff of the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission has a page on their web site titled
May is American Indian Month in Minnesota.
The statement is intended to "...bear witness to the tragic side of Minnesota Statehood in 1858 and
acknowledge the pain, loss and suffering of the Native American culture in Minnesota."
The Sesquicentennial Commission and its volunteers will strive to increase pride in Minnesota by:
(2.) Raising awareness and educating Minnesotans by telling the stories of our past, recognizing
the indigenous people of Minnesota, learning from them…."
The public is asked to get involved. Griff Wigley, Project Leader, Sesquicentennial Advisory
Committee for Native American Partnering posted a contributing comment of Tom's. It can be
viewed and read by clicking
http://nativeamericanminn150.org/archives/198#comment-5
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