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What does Seventh Generation Mean?</sup>

• Seven generation sustainability, the idea that decisions should be considered for their impact on the seventh generation to come, inspired by the laws of the Iroquois
• Seventh Generation Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution to put ecologically sensitive areas under government control
• Seventh Generation is a term used by Native people to talk about who we are now as representations of seven generations of the past and who we are and what we do now will impact our history and will determine who and how our people will be in the future, seven generations from now.
  

International Queer Indigenous Issue of _Yellow Medicine Review_

Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought_
International Queer Indigenous Issue
Edited by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

"The Ancestors We Were Looking for We Have Become:
International Queer Indigenous Voices"

As queer Indigenous writers, and queer artists of color more broadly, we have spent many years looking for our ancestors, looking for those Native and brown people who loved as we did, who moved in the world and created a space for us. Part of our queer genealogy involves not only finding those voices in our lineage, in our Nations, but also recognizing the way we are becoming those we have sought, and the importance of recording our stories for those coming after, and making the journey with, for we are not only descendents but ancestors.

Kin coming together at the meeting grounds to share sustenance: stories of survival, resistance, and affirmation. May we make good medicine for our peoples and Nations. May our words nurture and move us forward, our visions deeply rooted in the past and the continuance of our presence.

Same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender Indigenous peoples from around the world are invited to submit their work, words. May they be blessed.

Deadline: June 25, 2010. Earlier submissions encouraged.

Publication: September 2010.

Genres: All styles and types of writing welcome, including Indigenous work that precedes, resists, hybridizes, and exists outside of Eurocentric genre conventions of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and theatre. Song lyrics and musical excerpts, mixed-genre and experimental work, interviews, roundtables, and excerpts of longer works are all welcome. Multilingual work and work that represents tribal/National-specific artistic forms (genres, aesthetics, narrative structures) encouraged.

Themes: Completely open. There is an understanding all of our work is queer Indigenous work simply by our being who we are, and all aspects of our lives are worthy of writing, reflection, and being recorded.

Submission: Please send an email to editor@yellowmedicinerevie

w.com with a single Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) attachment that contains all of the following:
* your contact information
* 100-word bio
* all the pieces you are submitting.
Please put in the subject line of the email, "YMR: Queer Indigenous Issue," and name the attachment with your name (for example: AhimsaTimoteoBodhran.doc). This will help us keep track of things. Thank you.

Bio: Roughly 100 words. Feel free to weave from the following:
* your identities (Indigenous/genealogical/mixed-blood, queer/womanist, gender/sexuality, geographic, class, dis/ability, age, spirituality)
* your life experience (community work/activism/organizing, work/labor, teaching, education, passions/interests)
* your art (publications, awards, current projects/manuscripts, other artistic forms besides writing)
* your families (husbands/wives, life partners, boyfriends/girlfriends, [great][great][grand]children, being an aunt/uncle, chosen families, any other ties/relationships you want to name)
* your biomythography (story of who you are in relation to the world, creatively told).

Editor:

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is the author of _Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking_, winner of the New American Press Chapbook Contest. He was conceived in Niagara Falls, born in 1974 on El Día de la Madre in the South Bronx to a multigenerational mixed-blood familia (Kanien´kehaka, Onodowaga, Puerto Rican, Irish, and German/Moroccan Jewish), and raised in Lenapehoking. His poetry and nonfiction appear in over a hundred periodicals and anthologies in Africa, the Américas, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.

A Macondo Writer nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and _Best New Poets_, Bodhrán is a winner of an Editors' Choice Award from _Bamboo Ridge_ and the In Our Own Write Poetry Contest of the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. He is also the recipient of scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Lambda Literary Foundation.

Bodhrán received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. An American Studies Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, he is the recipient of Dean's Recruitment, Interdisciplinary Inquiry & Teaching, and Dissertation Completion Fellowships; an Excellence in Diversity Award; and a Somers Excellence in Teaching Award.

Author of a new chapbook, _South Bronx Breathing Lessons_, Bodhrán is completing _Yerbabuena/Mala yerba, All My Roots Need Rain: mixed-blood poetry & prose_ and _Heart of the Nation: Indigenous Womanisms, Queer People of Color, and Native Sovereignties_.

Litefoot and Concerned Natives

Another Bloggers View on The Gathering of Nations: Is Gathering of Nations becoming more of a market? Are the non-native participants exploiting native culture and people?......

Please read this article from the New Mexico Independent Newspaper:http://newmexicoindependent.com/52380/gathering-of-nations-pow-wow-draws-people-and-criticism

As Native People, we have endured various assaults on our culture and traditions. We have been through the fires of atrocity and have made it through, but not unscathed. The massacres, long walks, genocide, and forced assimilation through the boarding school system have wreaked havoc on American Indian Tribes in the United States and Canada. Today, we still see and feel the effects of the efforts of those bent on destroying our culture and way of life. As Native People we still experience racism and exploitation of Native Culture, i.e. Native mascots for sports teams, traders/merchants buying authentic crafts from Native artists at a fraction of the cost only to resale to the public at a thousand percent markup. Another major concern I would like to address is the recent attack on our Pow Wow culture by The Gathering of Nations Pow Wow.
As you are all aware, The Gathering of Nations is supported by various Tribes from the United States and Canada. My intentions are not to offend or demean anyone associated with the Pow Wow way of life, but there are many concerns with this event that need to be addressed. Here are a few:
1) Traders are housed in the main arena while the majority of Native vendors are located in a tent away from the Pow Wow.
2) Natives traveling from distant locations to participate in and hold on to their Native culture must pay ridiculous doorway fees as well as parking fees.
3) Any Brothers wanting to record must register their recorders and pay a fee to record.
4) Outdoor drinks and meals are not allowed - forcing participants and spectators to purchase expensive food and drinks indoors.
5) This one Powwow generates enough money to hold ten more powwows of that magnitude, and yet, Mr. Powwow Coordinator in an interview with the Navajo Times, states, "The remainder of the money is used to fund next year's powwow."
6) The Pow Wow coordinator (NON-INDIAN) demonstrates ignorance and/or blatant disrespect for Native culture (i.e. I have seen the coordinator rush through a crowd of dancers with no worry or concern for the Eagle feather used in their regalia; I have seen him roughly grab a fancy dancer on the arm, swinging him around and cussed him out for blowing a whistle; I have seen him stop a drum group in the middle of their drumming when a whistle was blown.)
How can you explain for a Non-Native have the power to stop a whistle at a Powwow and then proceed to stop the drum that responded to that whistle!? And yet we continue to support this individual every year, considering the taboos he violated. This individual was asked to MC a powwow in a New Mexico community a couple years ago. The powwow committee asked him for a donation, which he gladly donated $600 but asked for $800 at the end for MCing the powwow.
Pow Wows are an important part of our culture that gives us strength, rejuvenates the heart, and heals us. Although money is needed to fund pow wows, they should not be exploited for the benefit of one person. Each year, The Gathering of Nations Pow Wow raises hundreds of thousands of dollars of INDIAN MONEY in entrance fees, parking fees, vendor fees, recording fees, and countless other fees. Where does this money go???
There are many Tribal Nations across the U.S. and Canada who do not have enough resources to fund scholarships for their Tribal members to further their education and improve their communities. This Pow Wow has found a way to exploit our cultural traditions to make money...money that should be distributed back to less fortunate Tribal Nations to assist their children with scholarships.
Please do not take this as some sort of jealous attack, it is merely concern for maintaining our traditions and knowing that the day when NON-INDIANS dictate the terms of our culture and exploit us for their financial benefit WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

If you are planning or already have planned a trip to this event, please consider the larger issue at stake - OUR CULTURE, OUR FUTURE!

I THANK YOU - MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ON TURTLE ISLAND FOR THIS TIME. MAY THE CREATOR TAKE CARE OF YOUR HOME FIRES AND GUIDE YOU ON YOUR JOURNEYS.

PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHER BROTHERS & SISTERS IF YOU FEEL OUR CULTURE AND VALUES ARE AT STAKE!

AHO, Wa-Do, Hiy-hiy! (thank you!)
Petition Ban Gathering of Nations

"It is sad for me to see a time when the few things we have left to hold onto such as community building though pow wows comes to a stage such as this. A stage that generationally has shown us that we cannot have anything as native people without non-native people trying to take it from us or change the way we do things, because of this history it is hard to imagine peace because I do not know what peace looks like." ~ clay river

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The Indian Wars Never Ended

Popular culture and media would have us believe that the Indian Wars Ended in the 1890's with tragic battles such as that at Wounded Knee. However, the wars against Native peoples, their traditional cultural and spiritual lifeways and their simple right to exist have never stopped. The Indian Wars Never Ended-they merely shifted and changed to new battlegrounds, with new tactics and weapons being utilized.

In the 1960's the Indian Wars erupted and gained attention within the context of the larger civil rights movement. From Alcatraz, to the Fish Wars in the Northwest, Wounded Knee and the Longest Walk-Native people from coast to coast took a stand for tribal sovereignty and their treaty and civil rights. NARF was borne out this remarkable era of direct action and social and political change. NARF joined the many other Modern Day Warriors defending Native rights by taking these battles to the courts. As a result, NARF helped to win some of the most significant legal battles for the rights of Native peoples in modern history since its founding in 1970.

NARF-Modern Day Legal Warriors

In the spirit of great warriors such as Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Chief Joesph to all those men, women, Elders, youth and children who have taken a stand to defend Native peoples, NARF continues its legal work in the 21st Century. As Moder Day Warriors, NARF is committed to honor and carry on this tireless struggle to attain justice for Native Americans and ensure a brighter, stronger future for the generations yet to come. Today, NARF remains as busy and vigiliant as ever. NARF currently has a range of cases, projects and issues that it is working on to defend Native rights. From addressing to the devastating impact of global warming on Native Alaskans to voting rights, water rights, Indian Child Welfare, to ensuring government accountability on Indian Trust Fund misamanagement to assisting tribes with major issues in the higher Courts, NARF continues to work tirelessly to ensure justice in Indian Country. The coming year will certainly prove to be yet another busy and important year for major battles and issues impacting Native peoples across Indian Country.

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