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2/22/2008
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Vermont Basketmaker Contacted By Federal Officials About Native Arts Labeling
Author: Jedd Kettler Source: County Courier (VT)
Title: VERMONT BASKETMAKER CONTACTED BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS ABOUT NATIVE ARTS LABELING
If you doubt there is a need to change Vermont's Native recognition law to protect Abenaki artists and craftspeople, basketmaker Jesse Larocque suggests you look no further than an email he received from the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board this week.
That email was sent on Tuesday, Feb. 19, from IACB Support Specialist Ken Van Wey. It outlines federal law and suggests that Larocque - a member of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Missisquoi Abenaki - stop advertising his work as Native-made.
The IACB is part of the United States Department of the Interior and administers federal Native arts labeling regulations.
Van Wey's email suggests Larocque "should refrain from selling (his) work as Indian, Native American, or as the product of a particular Indian Tribe until (his) group is officially recognized."
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| (none) | Feb 24th. at 2:01:44 pm EST
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Llunmere (Germantown Hills, Illinois) - Email Me
So, I understand that they aren't recognized. I don't understand why they aren't, but I understand that it is important for there to be guidelines to preserve the rights genuine tribes, but I don't understand why there isn't recognition of historically well-established tribes.
Furthermore, how are they supposed to petition to be listed as an official tribe if their culture is forever dwindling because they have little incentive to continue their trades?
There should be a measure protecting the rights of tribes who are undergoing the process of becoming federally recognized.
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| Bullsh*t!! | Feb 23rd. at 5:07:01 pm EST
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
I realize that there are plenty of people with "rumors of a Cherokee in the woodpile" who would try to pass their work off as that of a Native craftsperson just for the money...
...and I hope that that's what the feds are trying to prevent...
...but somehow I, too, suspect it's another case of "You're not being an Indian the way we think you should be an Indian, so we're going to punish you any which way we can."
We wanted them behind fences, and that didn't work. We wanted them dead, and that didn't work. We wanted them assimilated, and that (barely) didn't work.
Or maybe it did. Maybe the 21st Century economic survival imperative will do what the g*dd*mn mission schools could not-- force a plethora of rich and beautiful cultures to disappear into the (now post-) industrialist greed that has already chewed up so many other cultures and sh*t them out again, leaving us with some strange, displaced Hominid Stew.
Is this the way things are meant to be?? I painfully suspect that Mother Destroyer would say "Yes," that this sick stew we're becoming is the precursor to the cultural primordial ooze out of which will be born the seeds of some new world.
That doesn't stop me from raising my fists, rending my hair, crying out loudly (and uselessly) against the destruction.
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| So, You Say You Are An Indian, And The Tribe . . . | Feb 23rd. at 4:45:54 pm EST
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
says you are an indian but you can't label your artwork as made by an indian until the government says you are an indian? Hummmmm, is that the same government that wiped out so many of your fellow tribe members that they now say you are too few to be an officially recognized tribe? In my opinion, if the other indians agree that you are an indian and can market your work as part of their tribal culture then the government sould have nothing to say about it.
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| And So, | Feb 23rd. at 12:33:21 pm EST
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Bellagunn (fairmont, West Virginia) - Email Me
in an effort to "protect" Abenaki rights the government has dimisnished the rights of those people who are of Abenaki heritage.....hmmmm.....yeah ok so I'm not suprised,so like when the indian agent said to my great grandma, hey were "giving" you land in another territory to "protect" you from settlers who want your land in mississippi and may kill you for it....oh and by the way if you don't leave we will kill you also....but it's really for your own good..... disgusting and typical. The american govenment should be ashamed, gaming rights won't save native cultures on this continent, only the ongoing preservation of languages and skilled crafts and a living, vibrant history with continuity. Penalizing the people who are trying to keep alive traditions considered esoteric and "artisan" in a throw away non-culture is takeing a great leap back to the 1970's (scary, native rights only recently began to progress in this country and even now are still a struggle) the rights of native people in this country should be a concern to everyone, they are a litmus indicator of how our government obliges the barest minimum of civil liberty.
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| "He's Just An Indian..." | Feb 23rd. at 1:13:56 am EST
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
Another example of Government Bureaucracy not knowing what Government Officials are doing -- and vice-versa. Also another example of Government not following its own Rules, Regulations and Laws.
The Original Inhabitants of this continent have always had to accept being treated as Second-Class Citizens ever since the first European set his foot here.
----nasionnaich
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