Shendandoah Newsletter comes from long, rich tradition of ragged-looking, impassioned newsletters. (Newsletter Profile).Shenandoah Newsletter comes out of that long, rich vein of ragged-looking, outspoken newsletters written by partisans whose passions run faster than they can type. It consists of 22 pages of wall-to-wall sans-serif typewriter type, two columns separated only by the ragged right In typography, non-uniform text at the right margin, such as the text you're reading. of the left-hand column. But enough about how the 29-year old monthly looks. It's how it acts that makes Shenandoah Newsletter a classic. It offers equal doses of news and letter, both served with a generous helping of attitude. The lead story in the September 2002 issue was written by a woman who says, "My children and I are Oneida citizens of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois League (ĭr`əkwoi', –kwä'), North American confederation of indigenous peoples, initially comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. in upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. ," whose Bureau of Indian Affairs The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the Department of the Interior charged with the administration and management of 55.7 million acres (87,000 sq. agent "has created a dictatorship." Two other long, detailed articles deal with a Pow Wow in Ohio intended to feature Traditional Dancers but sabotaged by veterans' groups; and an account of the Choctaw Code Talkers in World War I, the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II, and the Abenaki Code Talkers in the Korean "police action." The masthead mast·head n. 1. Nautical The top of a mast. 2. The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation. 3. is signed, "Scan dos, Lalihwisaks (He Who Looks For News)." "Scan dos" is apparently a Native American greeting, since it closes many of the newsletter's items--for example, "Consider this. They have only been in our lands for 510 years and have created waste that is dangerous to them and us for 10,000 to 100,000 years. "Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain, mountain in the SW Nevada desert about 100 mi (161 km) northwest of Las Vegas. It is the proposed site of a Dept. of Energy (DOE) repository for up to 77,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (including commercial and defense spent fuel and high-level is chosen as the place for that waste. "And in a number of years, there will be the need of Menominee land in the State of Wisconsin. 110,000 acres in Waupaca County. There is a marble rock formation that is of interest to the Occupation Forces. Scan doa." The newsletter also serves as a police blotter A written record of arrests and other occurrences maintained by the police. The report kept by the police when a suspect is booked, which involves the written recording of facts about the person's arrest and the charges against him or her. BLOTTER, mer. law. , noting arrests and clashes between Native Americans and "occupation forces"; a calendar of events; a newspaper of record, noting deaths and graduations; and a book store offering numerous scholarly works and first-person accounts. Shendandoah Newsletter, Lalihwisaks, editor, 12x, $17.50 indivduals, $22.50 institutions, $30 foreign. 736 W Oklahoma St., Appleton, WI 54914, 920-832-9525. |
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