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Date Posted: 09:20:08 03/12/01 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: News and Issues

Advocate Investigator (no email / no homepage) wrote:

"Protesters near West Yellowstone foiled an attempt Wednesday to haze bison
into Yellowstone National Park, a Montana Department of Livestock
spokeswoman said.
Between 14 and 18 bison were outside the park, Karen Cooper said, with most
of them along the Madison River north of West Yellowstone.
The attempt to chase them into the park failed "mostly because Buffalo Field
Campaign had hazed them back into the heavy timber," where they couldn't be
chased any further, Cooper said.
Just one animal was hazed back into the park.
Nobody was arrested in Wednesday's operation, which included DOL, the U.S.
Forest Service, the National Park Service, Montana Department of Fish,
Wildlife and Parks, the Montana Highway Patrol and the Gallatin County
sheriff's office.
Buffalo Field Campaign has for the past three winters been interfering with
DOL efforts to haze, capture or shoot bison that leave the park.
In a press release, BFC said nothing about its members hazing bison,
maintaining only that the animals "outsmarted" DOL.
There has been relatively little bison activity so far this winter, as light
snowpack in the park has allowed the animals to remain there.
In past winters, hundreds of animals have been killed."

©2001 Bozeman Chronicle
{ref: BUFFALO FOLKS }

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17 Date: 2001-02-08 17:39:12
Advocate Investigator (no email / no homepage) wrote:

5 Drug Makers Use Material With Possible Mad Cow Link

By MELODY PETERSEN and GREG WINTER
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/health/08COW.html?printpage=yes

For the last eight years, the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly
asked pharmaceutical companies not to use materials from cattle raised in
countries where there is a risk of mad cow disease.

But regulators discovered last year that five companies, including some of
the world's largest drug concerns, were still using ingredients from those
countries to make nine widely used vaccines.

Some of the companies say that they found the F.D.A.'s request unclear and do
not believe they did anything wrong. Others say they could not keep up with
the government's expanding list of countries where cattle could be infected.
One, however, acknowledged that it could have moved more quickly.

The nine vaccines include some regularly given to millions of American
children, including common vaccines to prevent polio, diphtheria and tetanus.
They also include the anthrax vaccine, which the government requires for
soldiers serving in the Persian Gulf.

Federal health officials stress that the vaccines are still considered safe.
They calculate that the odds of these vaccines passing on the disease, in the
worst eventualities, are between one in 40 million and one in 40 billion
doses.

The officials say that the very slight chance that someone could be infected
is far outweighed by the benefits that these vaccines bring in fighting
disease and preventing death. Indeed, it is now only a scientific theory that
a vaccine could infect someone with the human form of mad cow disease —
called new variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease. No one is known to have
contracted the disease this way.

"Any risk is very remote," said Dr. Karen Midthune, director of the F.D.A.'s
Office of Vaccine Research and Review. "But if we have the ability to bring
this remote risk to zero, that is something we want to do."

Nonetheless, the fact that these suspect materials slipped into the nation's
vaccine supply — and that the F.D.A. did not discover it for seven years —
raises questions about the agency's ability to ensure that all medicines are
free of the infectious proteins that can cause mad cow disease.

The F.D.A. so far has only investigated the vaccine makers and has not looked
to see whether other medicine is free of possible mad cow contaminants. Some
experts say they worry more about dietary supplements. Unlike drugs,
supplements are largely unregulated. The F.D.A. is not even sure how many
supplement makers there are.

"It's just insane not to have greater safeguards" for supplements, said Dr.
Paul W. Brown, chairman of the F.D.A.'s advisory committee on mad cow
disease. "The potential exists for abuse."

All five vaccine makers, which include GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis and American
Home Products, have now agreed to stop using the suspect materials, which
include blood, fetal calf serum and meat broth.

But it will take a year or more to replace existing supplies with
reformulated products, because it can take many months to grow cultures used
in making vaccines. Both the companies and the F.D.A. say that the current
products are safe and should remain on pharmacy shelves.

They point out that the suspect ingredients, for the most part, are used only
in the early stages of manufacturing, when cultures are grown. Blood, for
instance, may be used to feed the bacteria and viruses in these cultures. The
cultures are then significantly diluted in the final vaccine.

The F.D.A. first asked the vaccine makers in a 1993 letter to stop using
materials from cattle raised in Britain and other countries where there was a
threat of mad cow disease. Regulators followed up with another letter in 1996
in which the agency "strongly" recommended that drug companies take
"immediate and concrete steps" to make sure they were not using the materials.

In interviews, regulators said it was not until last year that they learned
that some vaccine makers were not complying. During a routine review of a
company's application for a license, the F.D.A. discovered that the company,
which it will not identify, was using cattle parts from a high-risk country.

Regulators immediately demanded that all vaccine makers identify where their
biologic ingredients were coming from. That review found the nine vaccines.

Dr. Murray M. Lumpkin, a senior medical adviser at the F.D.A., said his
agency's investigative resources were limited.

"You have to prioritize where the greater risk is," Dr. Lumpkin said. For
example, the F.D.A. now has inspectors visiting animal feed companies, he
said, after it found that many of them were not following regulations adopted
in 1997. Those rules, in part, prohibit using beef parts to make cattle feed.
Scientists contend that cattle in Britain were infected after eating feed
that contained parts of other infected cows.

"That is where we think the greatest risk for Americans is at this time," Dr.
Lumpkin said.

But critics including doctors, scientists and consumer advocates say that the
F.D.A. should have acted more aggressively by ordering, rather than asking,
companies to follow the agency's recommendations.

"The companies acted recklessly because, in part, the F.D.A. failed to
regulate them," said Dr. Peter G. Lurie, another member of the F.D.A's
advisory committee on the disease.

Dr. Lurie, a researcher at Public Citizen, the consumer group, said he agreed
that the vaccines should stay on pharmacy shelves. But he faulted both the
companies and the F.D.A. for possibly undermining public confidence in the
safety of vaccines.

In their defense, F.D.A. officials said they expected companies to heed their
requests.

"The expectation," Dr. Lumpkin said, "is that people will behave responsibly."

Mad cow disease, which is always fatal, is believed to be caused by an
infectious protein called a prion. In sick animals or humans, the prion
twists into an abnormal shape, often in the brain. These misfolded prions
accumulate in toxic clumps, eventually destroying normal brain tissue and
creating spongelike holes.

Cattle ingredients are used in a myriad of drugs other than vaccines. But the
F.D.A. says it cannot release a list of these drugs because many details of
how a product is manufactured are proprietary corporate information.

But regulators say, for instance, that many drugs contain gelatin, made from
the bones or hooves of cattle. And calf lungs are used to make surfactants,
which help premature infants breathe.

As for dietary supplements, the industry's trade groups say that hundreds of
products use an array of cow tissues, from ground prostate glands and
testicles in pills that supposedly bolster sexual vitality to thymus extract
for healthy skin.

Many organs that scientists consider particularly risky for the transmission
of mad cow disease are also used, including freeze-dried brain and pituitary
glands in supplements that manufacturers say stimulate memory, adrenal
extract for energy, even powdered spleen to help clear the sinuses.

As with vaccines, the F.D.A. has urged supplement makers not to use cow
tissue from certain countries. But the F.D.A., which has no specific
manufacturing rules for supplements, cannot say whether products sold in the
United States are free of such ingredients.



16 Date: 2001-02-08 17:37:08
Advocate Investigator (no email / no homepage) wrote:

Con't from Part 1- 5 Drug Makers Use Material With Possible Mad Cow

"The F.D.A. is toothless," Dr. Brown said. "Their purview over dietary
supplements is infinitesimally small."

Without comprehensive federal guidelines, the Natural Nutritional Foods
Association, the largest trade group, started a voluntary program in 1999 to
test whether its members' products are free of contaminants, including mad
cow disease. But of about 500 companies eligible, only 20 have gone through
the review.

For its part, the F.D.A. inspects only about 60 of the more than 1,000
supplement manufacturers each year. "We rely on the industry to do the right
thing," said Dr. Christine Lewis, director of the F.D.A.'s dietary supplement
division.

In 1995, the F.D.A. told its border agents to detain any imports of suspect
cattle parts or products made from them. Regulators say they have not found
any supplements sold in the United States that contain the materials.

And one industry executive said there was little incentive to even try to
import such materials. "These glands are not very expensive," said Matt
Schueller, vice president at Enzymatic Therapy, a supplement maker in Green
Bay, Wis.

Even so, Dr. Brown and others say that the border controls are not enough.

Every year, more than $1 billion of supplements are imported from high-risk
countries, according to a 1999 F.D.A. study. Only about 7 percent of these
products say on their labels that they contain animal parts, but there could
be more, Dr. Brown said. Foreign labeling laws vary widely, he said, making
it hard to know what some imports contain.

The companies that make the nine vaccines say they have tried to comply with
the F.D.A.'s requests and, over the years, have provided regulators with any
information they asked for.

They say that in most of the vaccines, the ingredients that regulators have
questioned are in the cultures used to start each batch. They say that some
of these cultures, which are used year after year, were created in the
1980's, before the F.D.A. told them to stop using material from certain
countries.

American Home Products has been working for five years to change the material
used in bacterial seed cultures for its vaccine, Pnu- Imune 23, which
prevents pneumonia, said Dr. Peter R. Paradiso, a top researcher in the
company's Lederle Vaccine subsidiary. The 23 cultures making up the vaccine
must be modified one at a time, he said, with regulators approving each one.

"The risk is very, very minuscule," Dr. Paradiso said. He calculates the risk
of Pnu-Imune passing on the disease, in a worst case situation, at one in 2.4
trillion doses.

At Aventis, Len Lavenda, a spokesman, said that the company had believed that
IPOL, its polio vaccine, complied with the F.D.A.'s request. But last year,
regulators disagreed, he said, because the company cannot trace the origin of
some ingredients purchased in the 1980's.

In ActHIB, Aventis's vaccine to protect against haemophilus influenzae Type B
bacterium, the company used small amounts of hemin, a blood derivative, from
cattle in the Netherlands. Material from the Netherlands was banned in 1997,
but Aventis decided not to change its supplier, he said, because its
scientists believed that infectious material could not survive the production
process.

"That was probably a mistake," Mr. Lavenda said. The vaccines are safe, he
said, but the company fears its decision could weaken the public's confidence
in the vaccines.

BioPort, which makes vaccines against rabies and anthrax, said that it did
not understand until last year that the F.D.A. wanted the companies to change
seed cultures created before 1993.

GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical giant that sells three of the
vaccines cited by the F.D.A., declined to answer specific questions. Carmel
M. Hogan, a company spokeswoman, said the company had been trying since 1990
"to move away from using bovine materials from infected countries."

The F.D.A. said the problem with Infanrix, one of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines,
which prevents diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, stems from an ingredient
made for it by Chiron Behring in Germany. Chiron stopped using material from
German cows in September, said Thomas Schick, a Chiron spokesman, after
American regulators visited its factory.

The final vaccine, Certiva, also for children, was made by North American
Vaccines until 1999 when there were production problems. Baxter
International, which purchased North American last year, said the company did
not intend to sell Certiva again.

Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
{ref: HEALTH }

RELATED ARTICLE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/health/08CONS.html

The Vaccines in Question

An outside committee of health experts and federal regulators has reviewed
the risk of contracting the human equivalent of mad cow disease from several
vaccines and has concluded that the risk is remote and only theoretical. No
one is known to have been infected by a vaccine. The United States Public
Health Service said in December that all people should continue to be
vaccinated. The service said there was no need to select one vaccine over
another.

The Food and Drug Administration calculates that at the worst the risk of
contracting the disease from one dose of a bacterial vaccine, such as a
vaccine to protect against tetanus, is one in 40 million.

And with viral vaccines, like the one against polio, the F.D.A. estimates
that the risk is far lower — no more than one in 40 billion.

More information is available on the Web at www.fda.gov/cber/bse/bse.htm
.


Here is the list of vaccines that use cattle materials from
countries where the government says there is a risk of mad
cow disease:

• ActHIB, sold by Aventis Pasteur, to prevent infection by
the haemophilus influenzae Type B bacterium.

• OmniHIB, sold by GlaxoSmithKline, to protect against
haemophilus influenzae Type B.

• Infanrix, sold by Glaxo SmithKline, to prevent diphtheria,
tetanus and pertussis.

• Havrix, sold by GlaxoSmithKline, to prevent hepatitis A.

• Certiva, sold by North American Vaccine, now a unit of
Baxter International, to prevent diphtheria, tetanus and
pertussis.

Vaccines that use cattle materials of unknown geographic
origin are:

• IPOL, sold by Aventis Pasteur, to prevent polio.

• Pnu-Imune 23, sold by American Home Products'
Lederle Laboratories, to prevent pneumococcal diseases.

• Anthrax vaccine, sold by BioPort.

• Rabies vaccine, sold by BioPort.
}
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15 Date: 2001-02-08 17:33:58
Advocate Investigator (no email / no homepage) wrote:

By: MEG McSHERRY BRESLIN
'Chicago Tribune' Staff Writer
February 08, 2001
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/vweaion1/article/0,1575,SAV-0102080312,00.html

"The United Methodist Church jumped into the increasingly heated debate over
the University of Illinois' Chief Illiniwek this week by announcing a
$10,000 grant to a group trying to rid the campus of the sports team symbol.
The church's General Commission on Religion and Race awarded the funds to
the Illinois chapter of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and
Media.
The group is one of the most vocal opponents of the beleaguered chief,
arguing that the mascot is racist and offensive to Native Americans.
And although the commission has received more than a dozen phone calls in
recent days criticizing the donation, many from loyal alumni and supporters
of the university mascot, church officials said they stand by their
decision.
"What [the callers] don't realize is that this hurts Native American young
people. It destroys their self-esteem because they're not mascots, they're
human beings," said Ken Deere, associate general secretary of the
commission.
The Methodist grant, to be used to help sponsor educational forums on the
chief in the local community, is the largest and most significant donation
the Illinois chapter of the racism coalition has received from a religious
organization, said Cyd Crue, chapter president.
The financial support the Champaign-based group got before was mostly small
sums to help sponsor conferences or assist with printing costs. Crue said he
hopes the grant sends a message to the U. of I. board of trustees, which
recently held a public forum on the chief in response to mounting criticism.
"I think the money and the fact that religious leaders are getting involved
will help them realize this is a moral and ethical issue," said Crue, who
lives in Champaign and has a son who is Native American. "I think the
problem is they have not looked within their souls about this. They have not
even tried to understand what native people are talking about."
The mascot--a 75-year-old university tradition--has been under debate for
more than a decade. It is represented by a student who paints his face,
wears a costume and headdress from the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe, and dances
at halftime shows at varsity football and basketball games.
While opponents argue the mascot is degrading to Native Americans,
supporters say it is a source of university pride.
Partly in response to a university accreditation team that recommended the
university's board of trustees directly address concerns raised about the
chief, the board held a public forum last spring and solicited comments from
alumni and the community.
A 70-page report was recently compiled by former Cook County Judge Louis
Garippo.
Board members are expected to respond to that report at a March 7 board
meeting but have not said whether they will vote on the issue.
Board Chairman William Engelbrecht said the Methodists' position will weigh
no more heavily on board members than any other group.
"Remember that we are evaluating the comments of nearly 18,000 entities on
this issue, some of them individuals and some of them organizations," he
said. "We're certainly not going to get into the business, nor would we want
to, that this church organization is more important than the others."
The church commission, an arm of the national offices of the Methodist
Church, has awarded similar grants for decades to groups fighting racism."

{ref: MASCOT ILLINOIS }
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14 Date: 2001-02-08 17:31:22
Advocate Reporter (no email / no homepage) wrote:

> HIV infection rate high in young Americans
> FEBRUARY 7, 2001
>
> Health researchers are sounding warnings on the high
> rate of HIV infections among young Americans,
> especially minorities.
>
> A Centers for Disease Control study reports that about
> 30 percent of African-American males who have sex with
> other males are
> infected with the virus. Among all races, only 30
> percent of the young men infected were aware of their
> status.
>
> Get the Story:
> High HIV Rates Seen in Young (The Washington Post 2/7)
>
>
> Relevant Links:
> The Centers for Disease Control - www.cdc.gov




13 Date: 2001-02-08 14:54:37
Advocate Reporter (no email / no homepage) wrote:

'Chiapas' bank robber caught
FEBRUARY 8, 2001

A New Mexico man who said he was robbing banks to help Zapatista rebels in Mexico was captured by FBI agents on
Wednesday.

Byron Shane Chubbuck aka "Robin the Hood" was shot in the chest by an FBI agent and was listed in satisfactory
condition at University of New Mexico Hospital. Chubbock on December 21 escaped from a prisoner transport van and
has been accused of robbing eight banks in the Albuquerque area.

Authorities said Chubbock called in to a local radio station and told a DJ that he was robbing the banks to help the
Indian rights rebels in Mexico. The radio station aired the interview on Monday.

"I was robbing banks to help the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico," said the caller, whom the FBI identified as Chubbock.



12 Date: 2001-02-08 14:52:08
Advocate Reporter (no email / no homepage) wrote:

Ashcroft says teens, women priorities
FEBRUARY 8, 2001

Recently confirmed Attorney General John Ashcroft on Wednesday laid
out his priorities at the Department of Justice
and said teen drug use and battling discrimination against women and
minorities were top priorities.

In an agenda laid out to staffers and an appearance on CNN's "Larry
King Live," Ashcroft began reaching out to
Democrats and others who have criticized him on his record.

Teen drug use and violence against women are two of the major issues
facing Indian Country.

Get the Story:
Violence, Teen Drug Use Are Ashcroft Priorities (The Washington Post
2/8)



11 Date: 2001-02-08 14:49:43
Advocate Reporter (no email / no homepage) wrote:

Could Peltier have been set free?
FEBRUARY 8, 2001

Imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier might have received executive
clemency had he friends in high places. Or, at least
a bigger wallet.

Access to President Bill Clinton, according to critics of his final
pardons and commutations, might have ensured Peltier
his own favorable decision. Personal friends of pardoned felons, or
alleged ones, like commodities trader Marc Rich and
Whitewater partner Susan McDougal are said to have been instrumental
in the process.

The House Committee on Government Reform is holding a hearing on
Rich's controversial pardon today. Attorney
General John Ashcroft criticized Clinton for pardoning Rich on CNN's
"Larry King Live" last night.

Get the Story:
Access to the White House Opened Door to Clemency (The Washington Post
2/8)
House panel to begin investigation of Rich pardon (AP 2/8)
Ashcroft hits Clinton on pardon, drug war (AP 2/8)

Relevant Links:
Free Leonard Peltier - www.freepeltier.org
The Leonard Peltier File, FBI -
www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/minn/peltier.htm
The No Parole Peltier Association - www.noparolepeltier.com



10 Date: 2001-02-08 14:47:20
Advocate Reporter (N_A_Advocate@mindspring.com / no homepage) wrote:

Report tackles economid development
FEBRUARY 8, 2001

A report released on Wednesday tackles the subject of economic
development in Indian Country, hoping to explain
why entrepreneurial activity on reservations is much lower than the
rest of the country.

In "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2000 National
Entrepreneurship Assessment for the United States of
America," researchers from Babson College in Massachusetts and the
Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
in New York examine some of the complex issues faced by more than 550
tribes in the nation. They cite a number of
obstacles face Native Americans who want to start their own economic
ventures on reservations.

One obstacle is already well-known in Indian Country. While tribal
governments can be an ally in expanding economic
opportunities through gaming and other developments, they can also be
a hindrance, especially when it comes to daily
operation of businesses.

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has been recognized nationally for
developing its own solution to the issue. Its
economic development corporation, Ho-Chunk Inc., has kept tribal
politics separate from business decisions although
CEO Lance Morgan, a tribal member, says the two can occasionally
collide.

But different factors can affect economic development activity taken
on by tribes as opposed to ventures started by
individual tribal members. Individuals who operate businesses on
allotted or trust land don't necessarily face the same
governance issues a tribally-owned corporation like Ho-Chunk Inc.
might face.

Still, the report does cite other problems shared by tribes and
individuals alike. Poor water and electrical systems,
substandard housing, inadequate road and transportation systems, and
deficient communications networks can hinder
successful entrepreneurial activity.

The report also says Indian culture can hinder some economic
development. While the researchers say most Americans
disagree with the notion that everyone should have the same standard
of living, they say tribal cultures place more
value on community well-being than personal independence.

"Social norms strongly influence the prevalence, or lack thereof, of
start-ups among Native Americans," said Andrew
Zacharakis, a Babson College researcher. "Whereas the U.S. as a whole
can be considered individualistic with a
propensity for independence, Native Americans are more
community-oriented."

Zacharakis and the other researchers say improvements in education,
especially in early grades, is key to ensuring
young Native Americans grow up with an "entrepreneurial mentality."
They also say successful Native American
entrepreneurs need to become role models to show others in their
communities how to kick-start economic
development.

"What's important to note is Native Americans across the country are
working hard to begin the effort to build
entrepreneurial economies in their communities," said S. Michael Camp,
project director and director of research at the
Kauffman Center. "Now it's just a matter of time before we see
substantial improvements."



9 Date: 2001-02-08 14:44:38
Sacred Heart (no email / no homepage) wrote:

Campbell criticized for radio talk
FEBRUARY 8, 2001

Colorado Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the Senate's only Native
American member, took the radio waves on
Wednesday but not everyone was happy with his performance.

Appearing on the nationally broadcast program Native America Calling,
Campbell was set to participate in a one-hour
question and answer session with host Harlan McKosato and interested
callers from throughout the country. However,
the Northern Cheyenne tribal member departed halfway through the
program due to another scheduled meeting.

Still, his half-hour stint was not without some heated exchanges. Guy
Lopez, one of several Indian leaders who called
on the Senate to reject Gale Norton's confirmation as Secretary of
Interior, questioned Campbell's support of the
controversial Cabinet member.

During her nine-year tenure as Colorado's Attorney General, Norton
signed several legal briefs asking the Supreme
Court to set limits on tribal sovereignty. But Campbell discounted the
idea that Norton was anti-tribal and said she
was merely working at the "directive of the Governor."

"You're wrong, its as simple as that," Campbell told Lopez. "The
bottom line is her record is good from my perspective
and I'm glad she's in there."

"I've got a full plate back here and I don't need to get into
arguments over the air with someone who knows her record
like I do," a seemingly agitated Campbell added.

Lopez, executive director of the Indigenous Peoples' Endangered
Species Program at the Center for Biological Diversity,
didn't appear fazed by Campbell's remarks, though. After the show, the
Crow Creek Sioux tribal member said Campbell
is ignoring the "well-documented, anti-Indian record of Gale Norton"
and hoped he would keep in mind issues raised by
himself and others.

Cinda Hughes, a staff member in the Oklahoma Senate, was less
optimistic. After Campbell departed the program,
Hughes said she was "very disturbed" about his conversation with
Lopez.

"It was indicative of his arrogance and indicative of his
unwillingness to listen to any other opinion that he has," said
Hughes, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. "That probably is how
he got so far amongst the Caucasians in
Washington, DC."

Besides defending Norton, Campbell yesterday said President George W.
Bush supports tribal sovereignty. Tribal
leaders have been skeptical of Bush ever since he suggested that
state's rights "reign supreme" when it comes to
tribes but Campbell said those remarks had been taken out of context.

Campbell also addressed another hot topic on the show. The sponsor of
a bill that would rid the Bureau of Indian
Affairs of its federal recognition, Campbell said other Senators have
jumped into the debate in response to
"disgruntled" citizens who are "angry" that tribes, like the
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, have
become wealthy due to gaming.

"I had one of my Ute friends tell me once: 'You know, those
non-Indians liked us better when we were poor,'"
recounted Campbell. "That may be true. There might be people up the
road in Connecticut who are just jealous or
something."

Relevant Links:
Native America Calling - www.nativecalling.org
Stop Gale Norton - www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/
stop-norton/index.html

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