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> Alcatraz alumni here.  When they couldn't shut up the voices,  they killed 
> their children, their wives, their families and when that  didn't shut up 
> some of them, they killed them or put them in  prison.

>Lynda, Wiyot
 
Wiyot is huge, on my 'list'. Well-organized today, and will continue to be,  
I'm sure, but I always feel really strange engaging in these discussions, as 
I 
 am a 'white' person, and I'm always afraid I'll be viewed with suspicion. I  
think you and I have had this discussion before - or parts of it - when I was 
 asking about the Vanyume.
 
I moved into this place last December, and one of the things I had need to  
put up on the walls was a framed letter from Daniel Peaches - from 1978. 
Before 
 he got to be a big-shot. He and I had been going back and forth - in the 
days  before email, about the issue of Navajo children being whisked away 
into 
foster  homes and indoctrinated with Mormonism. I was absolutely incensed 
that 
they  would not only be yanked out of their homes, but that their culture 
would 
be  taken from them.
 
He later wrote me back to say that he had been one of those children. I  
didn't know quite how to respond.
 
The framed letter on my wall, written two years later, was accompanied  by a 
copy of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. What the letter does not say  
is 
that the 'package' was unsolicited. 

I have never, to this day, felt so honored to be asked my opinion about  
anything. Anything.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave



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