seal meat

[David Lewis]

Be careful of using blood quantum to ID Natives. This is a federal strategy to disenfranchise all natives from their responsibility and to remove all land from native ownership. Also be careful with culture in general, that is a moving target, not static. 

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David G. Lewis
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Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Office 503.879.1634
David.Lewis at grandronde.org

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-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard LaFortune
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:38 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] seal meat

It's a matter of degree Chris w fed blood quantum and
enrollment requirements.  I could have a Yupik
grandmother who 
1) can't speak English and only goes to the Alaska
Commercial store for flour, shortening and sugar, or 
2) a 'Yupik' grandmother who is federally enrolled
according to the letter of the law, possesses 0.25%
Yupik blood quantum, doesn't miss an episode of Wheel
of Fortune and thinks smoked seal meat is yucky.

Guess which grandmother mine is (actually, that is an
accurate description of my mom, although she can write
in broken English).  One of the grandmothers told me
that Palin's husband's Native ID is bogus.  That's
just what I was told.
Richard LaFortune

--- Christopher Doty <suomichris at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> First, let me say I'm no Palin fan, but I can't find
> any evidence of
> Palin being involved in the court case about
> fishing, as per this
> website:
> http://www.narf.org/cases/statevnorton.html, nor
> hunting as
> far as I can tell (as per, e.g.,
> http://www.narf.org/cases/ahtna.htm).
>  Doesn't mean she wasn't involved, of course, but
> still..
> 
> It also seems rather odd (although certainly
> possible) that Palin
> would be opposed to Yup'ik language use, given that
> her husband's
> grandmother is Yup'ik
> (http://gov.state.ak.us/bio_firstgent.html)...
> 
> Anyone have anything more substantial on the
> hunting/fishing issues
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:45, William J Poser
> <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > I don't know about the other issues, but the
> language assistance
> > part is certainly true given that the court case
> is well-documented
> > and that Palin is indeed Governor of Alaska and
> therefore
> > ultimately responsible for the state's position.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Christopher S. Doty
> Grants and Technology Coordinator
> Northwest Indian Language Institute
> 
> Graduate Student - Department of Linguistics
> University of Oregon
>