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I changed my website address from www.towahkon.org/articles.html to
http://www.towahkon.org/Tomssite.html

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Several months ago, I met with Rep. Dean Urdahl and a few Minnesota Dakota tribal leaders. During the meeting I was asked to write and send a draft Minnesota Indian reconciliation resolution to Urdahl. I then wrote and sent Urdahl my draft reconciliation resolution. Urdahl used some of my material, some of his own wording, and some material from other states' resolutions to create a draft Minnesota reconciliation resolution. He then introduced it to the Minnesota legislature.

In the near future, Urdahl, a few tribal leaders and I will be meeting to make some changes to the draft reconiliation legislation. SKMBT_75010030813340.pdf (92KB)

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A Minnesota County Newspaper, the Mille Lacs Messenger, publish a letter of mine on March 17th. Its title is Alcohol in the fur trade.

It will soon be posted on the Mille Lacs Messenger's web site. I posted it on myspace.com. To view and read this letter click Alcohol in fur trade

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Indian Country Today published my letter Disparity feeds injustice

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On March 9th, Rep. Dean Urdahl sent me an update on the status of the Minnesota reconcilation resolution. It apologizes for the abuse of Minnesota's American Indians.

Rep. Urdahl wrote: "I have had a reconciliation resolution drafted. I used some of your material, some from other states and some of my own. I hope this will work."

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Indigenous Peoples Liturature posted my article Eradicate Poverty - Neotribalism

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Mille Lacs Messenger letter to the editor: Eradicate Poverty

Eradicate Poverty

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Article: Alcohol was used to commit atrocities against Native people

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On Septemper 26, Indian County Today, our nation's and the world's leading Indian news source, publish a letter of mine titled 'Old' principle in action. It can be found and read by clicking 'Old' principle in action .

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In response to my Mille Lacs Messenger letter Apology needed the editor of the Messenger published Cheryl Anderson's letter A response to Mr. Dahlheimer . And this week the editor of the Messenger published my response letter to Anderson's response letter. It's this week's "letter of the week". It can be found and read by clicking Sovereign nation status is insufficient .

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On Septemper 20, Indian County Today, our nation's and the world's leading Indian news source, publish a letter of mine titled Sparking change in Minnesota. It can be found and read by clicking Sparking change in Minnesota

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On September 9, the Mille Lacs Messenger published a letter of mine. It has not yet been posted on the Messenger's website. However, I posted it on News For Natives. It can be found and read by clicking Apology needed

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On August 13, 2009 Indigenous Peoples Literature posted my articleMinnesota Apology Resolution . This article, along with reference links, is also posted on the Mille Lacs Messenger's web site. To view and read this article on the Messenger's site click Minnesota Apology Resolution .

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The Mille Lacs Messenger recently published a letter of mine about the effort to restore the Mille Lacs area's Ogechie Lake back to when it produced a lot of wild rice and then return it back to its orginal owners, the Dakota Indian people. The letter can be viewed and read by clicking Restore Ogechie .

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The Mille Lacs Messenger recently published a letter of mine about my effort to prepare the way for the Mdewakanton Dakota to reclaim their sacred Mille Lacs ancestral homeland. Click Sacred Homeland to find and read this letter

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Article Minnesota bill to change derogatory names This article presents information about my recent correspondence with Annamarie Hill-Kleinhans, the Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, and Representative Dean Urdahl.

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Indigenous Peoples Literature recently posted all seven of the articles that I have post on my Indigenous Peoples Rights blog. The Indigenous Peoples Liturature site is located at http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ipl_final.html And my Indigenous Peoples Rights blog is located at: http://thomas-dahlheimer.blogspot.com/

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I now have a blog on the Mille Lacs Messengers on-line newspaper web site. This newspaper is Mille Lacs County's official newspaper. Mille Lacs Lake and the surrounding area is known as "Mille Lacs". This is where the Mille Lacs Band Of Ojibwe have a reservation. And Mille Lacs was once the spiritual center and focal point of the Dakota Nation. It is now a sacred traditional/ancestral homeland of the Dakota Nation. Click Mille Lacs Messenger blog to view and read articles of mine.

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On the web site [Adam Smith's Lost Legacy] the following introductory paragraph to two articles of mine are displayed, a title to this introductory paragraph is also displayed.

Title: Going Back to Tribalism?

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer writes on "Regaining traditional tribal values and ancestral homelands" on the News for Natives.com Blog HERE [Also; see HERE]:

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Greg Peterson, a friend who helps me promote my activist agenda and who is a correspondant for Indian Country Today, the world's leading Native American news source, has an article published in Indian Country Today, an article titled, 'Spiritual terrorism' against indigenous people still occurs, Lutheran pastor says. It's about a topic that I often write about. It can be viewed and read by clicking Indian Country Today

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A new article of mine is posted on New for Natives. To view and read this article click Regaining traditional tribal values and ancestral homelands

This article can also be viewed and read by clicking Regaining traditional tribal values and ancestral homelands

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Brett Larson, the editor of the Mille Lacs Messenger, published a letter to the editor of mine on the newspaper's new web site. Its title is [Mille Lacs's role in Dakota culture]. To view and read this letter click Reclaiming the Dakota's ancestral homelands

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Brett Larson, the editor of Mille Lacs County's newspaper (the Mille Lacs Messenger) published a letter to tne editor of mine, titled We need a new U.S.A. culture based on trational tribal values We need a new culture.. This same article can be viewed and read by clicking We need a new U.S.A. culture based on trational tribal values


To view and read an article of mine posted on Bruce White's interactive website Minnesotahistory.net click
The importance of Mille Lacs Lake in the history and culture of the Dakota people

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To view and read a new article of mine posted on News For Natives click Creating a new U.S.A culture based on tribal values The founder and webmaster of hippyland, the world's largest hippie site (23,000 registered members, with many forums) recently contacted me to let me know that he posted this article of mine on hippylands sister site Coolove. The article can be view and read on Coolove by clicking Creating a new U.S.A. culture based on tribal values

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On March 18th the Star Tribune, Minnesota's best-selling state wide daily newspaper, published a letter to the editor of mine.

To view and read this letter click INDIAN GAMING

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A comment of mine on Minnesotahistory.net about the Dakota Indian's Mde Wakan (Mille Lacs Lake) creation story, a comment consisting of several paragraphs, can be found and read by clicking Dakota Creation Story

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The Coldwater Springs Deception

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Letter from Archbishop John Nienstedt news update - posted on News For Natives

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My Requests For Bishop John Kinney news update - posted on News For Natives

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To view and read a County Star letter to the editor of mine click Euro-American Christians have not repented

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To view and read a Princeton Union Eagle letter to the editor of mine click Don't justify our war-mongering ancestors

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Letter from Bishop John Kinney and a Catholic.net posting of my article Christian Atrocities Committed Against Non-Christian Peoples

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The founder and webmaster of the world's largest hippie website (23,000 registered member) posted my Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations on his coolove site. ____________________________________________________________________

On January 23, 2009 - a Minnesota county newspaper, the Anoka County Union, published a letter to the editor of mine, titled: Indigenous peoples. It is posted on my myspace page. To view and read this letter click Indigenous Peoples

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On January 20, 2009 my article Christian Atrocities Committed Against Non-Christian Peoples was posted in the Transforming Colombus Day Newsletter, located on the tcd's Yahoo group site. To view and read this article click tcd - news

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On January 20, 2009 the Mille Lacs Messenger published my letter to the editor, titled:
Still rationalizing

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The Isanti-Chisago County Star newspaper published my letter Indigenous Peoples Rights ____________________________________________________________________

I joined the Creation Spirituality Community's Aboriginal Theology Community and have been corresponding with the host of the community. The community's home page has a welcome Thomas Dahlheimer display and a link to my article A Tribal Cultures Influenced Catholic Globalization Mission.

To view my page on the Creation Spirituality Community's website click MY PAGE

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On January 8, 2009 Indigenous Peoples Literature posted an article of mine titled Christian Atrocities Committed Against Non-Christian Peoples. This article can be viewed and read at groups.yahoo.com/groups/indigenous_peoples_literature/message/26193

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On January 6, 2009 the Mille Lacs Messenger published a letter of mine. The Mille Lacs Messenger is Mille Lacs County's official newspaper. This letter was the Messenger's "letter of the week". This letter is also posted on New For Native. The letter is located at: http://newsfornatives.com/blog/2009/01/06/a-spirit-of-love/

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A new article of mine, titled, Christian Atrocities Committed Against Non-Christian Peoples is now displayed on the News For Natives website. To view and read this article click News For Natives or Indigenous People Rights blog

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On December 26, 2008 Indigenous Peoples Literature posted my Anoka County Union letter. Its located at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_literature/message/26120

This letter was also posted in the Wakan Circle

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On December 24, 2008 the Mille Lacs Messenger published my letter titled Brainwashed

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A new display of a video and article of mine about my protest against the racist name of the Kinghts of Columbus is located at http://www.nichecreator.com/popvideo/in+1492+columbus+sailed+the+ocean+blue

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On December 19, 2008 the editor of the Anoka County Union (ACU) published a letter of mine titled, Indigenous Peoples Rights . The ACU is Anoka County's official newspaper. The population of Anoka County is 320,000.

My December 19, 2008 Anoka County Union letter to the editor Indigenous Peoples Rights was posted in the Transform Columbus Day Newsletter . Click TCD to view the Transform Columbus Day Alliance web site.

An Anoka County youtube video of mine wherein I protest the racist name of the Knights of Columbus is located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAkWV6xd_Y&feature=channel

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An "Ideas for Change in America" post of mine Ask the pope to revoke the 15th century papal bull [Inter Caetera]

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I recently posted an article on myspace, titled: Comments of mine that Griff Wigley will not post

This article is also posted on care2

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Google.com's search engine web page about "What's currently being written about the late Pope John Paul II around the web..." David Lawrence Show has information about - and a link to - my article Restoring The fundamental Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples displayed on the web page.

Another introduction paragraph and link to an article of mine is displayed on the David Lawrence Show web site.Combating White Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

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During the December 1st Anoka City Council Meeting, Phil Rice, a member of the Anoka City Council and mayor elect, spoke about how the Rum River received its current profane name and suggested that the council use the Dakota Indians' sacred name for the river [Wakan], translated to mean Spirit or Great Spirit, when giving the Rum River Nature Area, recently designated as a new city park, an official city park name. The park was given the name Anoka Nature Preserve. The council chose not to use the propane Rum River name when giving the park a name. And in Minnesota's best-selling state-wide newspaper, the Star Tribune, there is an article that presents the following statement: "The council decided to mention Wakan in a large interpretive sign bearing the park's new name and explaining park origins. American Indians have said early white setters, knowing the Indian name meant "spirit," used the Rum River name as a derogatory allusion to alcohol spirits."

A televised recording of the Anoka City Council Meeting can be viewed by clicking "council decided to mention Wakan in a large interpretive sign"

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WASALive recently posted my New-For-Natives posted article Combating White Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

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New article: Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations posted on new Indigenous Peoples
Literature blog site.

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My article Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations was posted on a National Association for Multicultural Education e-mail forum.

NAME is the leading international and national organization in the area of multicultural education.

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Tony Castanha -a Jibaro activist with indigenous roots in Puerto Rico, who is the project
director of the indigenous peoples delegation that went to the Vatican in 2000 calling for
the revocation of the 1493 papal bull "Inter Caetera", recently contacted me to give his
approval and support for my indigenous peoples rights activist initiative associated with
my youtube video wherein I tore up a copy of the Papal Bull "Inter Caetera" in front of
Anoka, Minnesota's Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Saint Stephen. This
youtube video is located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKxdPsrv_vY

The Papal Bull "Inter Caetera" is a decree that was issued by Pope Alexander IV to
Christopher Columbus by the Roman Catholic Church on his second voyage to the
Americas along with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which sought to establish Christian
dominionover the world and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and
seizure of their lands. The decree, which granted rights to land throughout North and
South America to Spain, under girds much of international law today, as well as the
Doctrine of Discovery that is enshrined in US federal Indian policy.

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After sending Paul Gorski, a nationally and internationally renowned multicultural
educator and social activist, my article Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations
for publication on his MultiCultural Pavilion website's MCP digest e-mail forum, he
posted my article. And then, after the Program Manager for the National MultiCultural
Institute [Amy Kasi] read my article on the MCP digest she contacted me and asked if I
would allow the National Multicultural Institute (NMCI) to post a quoted tidbit of mine
and link to my Indigenous Peoples Literature article Independent Indigenous
Sovereign Nations in the National MultiCultural Institute's upcoming October
newsletter. I said YES, and it was recently post on the NMCI's October newsletter
. It is posted on the newsletter's SPOTLIGHT display.

When requesting permission to display my article in the NMCI newsletter, Amy Kasi wrote: "I think it would be a valuable resource for anyone interested in not only
indigenous peoples but also the history of the US and human rights violations in
the US.

NMCI sends out monthly newsletters to a network of almost 3500 members.

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On October 1, 2008 - I found a [Multicultural Pavilion] Psycho-Social Profile of White Supremacists post of mine. It can be viewed and read by clicking White Supremacists

On September 17, 2008 - the editor of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation's on-line newspaper published a "Letter to the Oyate" of mine. This Dakota nation is a 12,000 member nation. A link to my article "Dakota Creation Stories" was published with the letter. A care2 presentation of this letter can be viewed and read by clicking Open letter to the Oyate

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On September 14th, Indigenous Peoples Literature post my article Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations

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I recently found another on-line article about the canoe expedition on the Wakpa Wakan (Rum River) that conected Dakota youth with the past. This article, published in The Circle, can be viewed and read by clicking A scouting party for the future: canoeing the Wakan Wakpa

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On August 31, 2008 Indigenous Peoples Literature post my update article about the effort to change the name of the Rum River. To view and read this article click Prohibition Party's interest in indigenous Healty Nations Program . This article, along with links to references, can also be viewed and read by clicking Care2.com posting.

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In response to an August 28th e-mail message that I sent Gene Amondson, the National Prohibition Party nominee for the 2008 campaign and chairman of the Prohibition National Committee since 2005, I received a call from Mr. Amondson. We talked about the work we are doing to bring back prohibition as well as establish dry states, counties, cities etc. Amondson asked me to call him whenever I would like to. He is an international speaker and he has been on the John Stewart show once and on the Oprah show twice.

During our conversation I told him that during prohibition there was a national movement to change the name of the Rum River by those who saw the addictive and harmful nature of rum upon society. The addictive and harmful nature of rum upon society is another reason why I initiated and am spearheading the Rum River name-change movement.

Articles of mine about this topic can be viewed and read by clicking the following links:

Solving the alcohol abuse epidemic
Criminalize Alcohol Near Sacred Native Sites
Dakota Human Rights Violations In Anoka, Minnesota
Activist denounces the Catholic Church for using wine in the sacrament of the Eucharist/Last Supper
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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

A "letter to the editor" of mine that was published in the Saint Cloud Visitor, a Minnesota Roman Catholic diocesan newspaper, was also 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

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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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