Wednesday, November 08, 2006
CONTENTS OF SMOKESIGNALS BLOG SEPT-OCT-NOV 06
CONTENTS OF BLOG http://smokesignals2006.blogspot.com/
Most recent first, back to earliest in September 2006
NORTHERN CHEYENNE COMMENTS ON ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
From recent blog in Billings Gazette after Oct. 25 Northern Cheyenne Energy story
ISSUES TO CONSIDER -- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CBM DEVELOPMENT HEARINGS
Results of important hearings November 2004
http://www.mt.blm.gov/mcfo/cbng/CoalCreek/AppendixE.pdf
Commentary concerning exploration and testing at 8 locations, 16 new and 2 existing wells
Appendix E Powder River Gas -- Coal Creek POD
Environmental assessment and MPDES
Public comments and responses
This section includes comments related to the scope of the EA; public or landowner involvement; and other procedural questions related to POD processing or EA preparation.
Powder River Gas, LLC November 19, 2004
BOOK REVIEW, A NORTHERN CHEYENNE ALBUM BY MARQUIS, WOODENLEGS, AND LIBERTY
From Amazon.com
Early Cheyenne Reservation Life -- A Masterpiece, October 10, 2006
Reviewer: Bob Reece (Longmont, CO USA)
BLM REPORT ON NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRADITION BY JOE LITTLECOYOTE AND OTHERS
2002 Bureau of Land Management Report By Joe Littlecoyote and Others
http://www.blm.gov/search/?query=Northern+Cheyenne&adv=1&narrow=pr%3Adefault&pr=VALUE_HERE&dropXSL=yes
CHAPTER 2
AN OVERVIEW OF NORTHERN CHEYENNE CULTURE AND HISTORY
A long and detailed history of the tribe by Joe Littlecoyote and others
Thursday, November 02, 2006
TRADITIONAL NORTHERN CHEYENNE LAND AND WATER VALUES
TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AND RESOURCES
FROM DEAVER AND TALLBULL REPORT, BLM 2001
WATER --CEREMONIAL SITES ---GRAVES, BURIALS AND CEMETERIES--
THE TONGUE RIVER VALLEY ---CONCLUSIONS
FROM
http://www.mt.blm.gov/mcfo/cbm/eis/NCheyenneNarrativeReport/Chap7.pdf.
IRRESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Oil and Gas are not Coal and Methane but the same folks do it
And results are often the same.
October 30, 2006
IRRESPONSIBLE OIL AND GAS DRILLING IS DEVASTATING THE WEST
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
JUST SAY NO
Look Well. O Wolves. Look well, o Cheyennes!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
NORTHERN CHEYENNE ENERGY BATTLES 1977
RUBY SOOKTIS STATEMENT
This battle was being fought thirty years ago, more than a whole generation. Thanks to its courage, determination, and brilliant leadership the tribe won an amazing victory.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
ABOUT COLSTRIP UNITS 1, 2, 3 AND 4
Notes from Internet Dec 12 2005
Monday, October 09, 2006
NEW YORK TIMES
TRIBAL COLLEGES GRAPPLE WITH CHALLENGES OF SUCCESSBy Steven A. Holmes
Published: August 3, 1997
Monday, October 09, 2006
TONGUE RIVER RAILROAD AS OF 1998
By JIM ROBBINS
Published: December 13, 1998
Thursday, October 05, 2006
THE MOST IMPORTANT TRIBE IN THIS COUNTRY
In 1979 a very significant book was published. It was “The Rape of the Great Plains: Northwest America, Cattle and Coal,” by University of Montana history professor K. Ross Toole.
Ross Toole dedicates this book “To the dedicated and knowledgeable environmentalists in the Great Plains states upon whose persistence the fate of a great land depends.” He includes the Northern Cheyennes among them.
Monday, October 02, 2006
NORTHERN CHEYENNE BATTLES WERE NOT JUST WITH CAVALRY --
SOME OF THE BIGGEST HAPPENED DURING RESERVATION YEARS
Story of the Northern Cheyenne Unallotment Act of 1955. led by John Woodenlegs
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Gazette story on Marquis book of Northern Cheyenne photos
See comments -- lots of Cheyenne respondents on line.
Friday, September 29, 2006
SWEET MEDICINE'S PROPHECY
Sweet Medicine’s Prophecy
They will be powerful people, strong, tough. They will fly up in the air, into the sky, they will dig under the earth, they will drain the earth and kill it. All over the earth they will kill the trees and the grass, they will put their own grass and their own hay, but the earth will be dead -- all the old trees and grass and animals. They are coming closer all the time. Back there, New York, those places, the earth is already dead. Here we are lucky. It’s nice here. It’s pretty. We have this good air. This prairie hay still grows. But they are coming all thetime, turn the land over and kill it, more and more babies being born, more and more people coming. That’s what He said.
He said the white men would be so powerful. so strong. They could take thunder, that electricity from the sky, and light their houses. Maybe they would even be able to reach up and take the moon, or stars maybe, one or two. Maybe they still can’t do that . . .
Our old food we used to eat was good. The meat from buffalo and game was good. It made us strong. These cows are good to eat, soft, tender, but they are not like that meat. Our people used to live a long time. Today we eat white man’s food, we cannot live so lonng -- maybe seventy, maybe eighty years, not a hundred. Sweet Medicine told us that. He said the white man was too strong. He said hiis food would be sweet, and after we taste that food we want it. Chokecherries and plums, and wild turnips, and honey from the wild bees, that was our food. This other food is too sweet. We eat it and forget. . . . . .It’s all coming true, what He said.
FRED LAST BULL
KEEPER OF THE SACRED ARROWS
BUSBY, MONTANA
SEPTEMBER 1957
A NORTHERN CHEYENNE VOICE
from Tribal Heritage Program,
Western Heritage Center,
Billings
Keith Beartusk, Northern Cheyenne Tribe
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND SOILS
CBM Water and Soils
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND WATER
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE WATER AND SOILS
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND AIR QUALITY -- DESTROYS RETIREMENT DREAM
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND AIR QUALITY: CBM Creates Dust Plague
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
New York Times Coalbed Methane Endangers Tongue River
September 12 2006
New York Times details coalbed methane extraction in Eastern Montana.
In the West, a Water Fight Over Quality, Not Quantity
By JIM ROBBINS
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
News From Custer Battlefield
NEWS FROM CUSTER BATTLEFIELD
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Sources at Indian Country Today
Search for Northern Cheyenne at Indian Country Today newspaper
yielded many results as recent as Sept. 22 2006
http://www.indiancountry.com/search.cfm?category=8&category2=2&author=0
Monday, September 25, 2006
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
FEATURE ARTICLE - January 20, 2003
A breath of fresh air
by Bob Struckman and Ray Ring
Monday, September 25, 2006
HOMELAND FILM
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action is a film which can be seen by making arrangements with the Cultural Center at Chief Dull Knife College. It includes
***** Gail Small: The Coal Wars
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Lame Deer, Montana
Evon Peter: The People and the Caribou Are One
Arctic Village, Alaska
Rita & Mitchel Capitan: Yellowcake, New Mexico
Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
Barry Dana: A People and Their River
Penobscot River, Maine
Monday, September 25, 2006
PARTIAL VICTORY 2005Current Developments
• Northern Cheyenne Tribe had a partial victory on February 25, 2005 when a federal judge in Billings, Montana ruled that a statewide environmental study by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of coalbed methane development in Montana was inadequate. This ruling comes from lawsuits filed in 2003 against BLM and the Department of Interior Secretary Gale Norton by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the Northern Plains Resource Council.
Monday, September 25, 2006
THE COAL WARS
FOR full text of 2005 ARTICLE Gail Small: The Coal Wars
Northern Cheyenne Reservation,
Lame Deer, Montana
PLEASE ACCESS THE LINK POSTED VOICES FROM THE EARTH
Saturday, September 23, 2006
American Heritage Book of Indians 1961
p. 337 “Above all, the new world of the horse brought time and temptation to dream. The plains are afloat in mysterious space, and the winds come straight from heaven. Anyone alone in the plains turns into a mystic. The plains had always been a place for dreams, but with horses they were more so. Something happens to a man when he gets on a horse, in a country where he can ride at a run forever; it is quite easy to ascend to an impression of living in a myth. He either feels like a god or feels closer to God, There seems never to have been a race of plains horsemen that was not either fanatically proud or fanatically religious. The Plains Indians were both. “
Most recent first, back to earliest in September 2006
NORTHERN CHEYENNE COMMENTS ON ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
From recent blog in Billings Gazette after Oct. 25 Northern Cheyenne Energy story
ISSUES TO CONSIDER -- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CBM DEVELOPMENT HEARINGS
Results of important hearings November 2004
http://www.mt.blm.gov/mcfo/cbng/CoalCreek/AppendixE.pdf
Commentary concerning exploration and testing at 8 locations, 16 new and 2 existing wells
Appendix E Powder River Gas -- Coal Creek POD
Environmental assessment and MPDES
Public comments and responses
This section includes comments related to the scope of the EA; public or landowner involvement; and other procedural questions related to POD processing or EA preparation.
Powder River Gas, LLC November 19, 2004
BOOK REVIEW, A NORTHERN CHEYENNE ALBUM BY MARQUIS, WOODENLEGS, AND LIBERTY
From Amazon.com
Early Cheyenne Reservation Life -- A Masterpiece, October 10, 2006
Reviewer: Bob Reece (Longmont, CO USA)
BLM REPORT ON NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRADITION BY JOE LITTLECOYOTE AND OTHERS
2002 Bureau of Land Management Report By Joe Littlecoyote and Others
http://www.blm.gov/search/?query=Northern+Cheyenne&adv=1&narrow=pr%3Adefault&pr=VALUE_HERE&dropXSL=yes
CHAPTER 2
AN OVERVIEW OF NORTHERN CHEYENNE CULTURE AND HISTORY
A long and detailed history of the tribe by Joe Littlecoyote and others
Thursday, November 02, 2006
TRADITIONAL NORTHERN CHEYENNE LAND AND WATER VALUES
TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AND RESOURCES
FROM DEAVER AND TALLBULL REPORT, BLM 2001
WATER --CEREMONIAL SITES ---GRAVES, BURIALS AND CEMETERIES--
THE TONGUE RIVER VALLEY ---CONCLUSIONS
FROM
http://www.mt.blm.gov/mcfo/cbm/eis/NCheyenneNarrativeReport/Chap7.pdf.
IRRESPONSIBLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Oil and Gas are not Coal and Methane but the same folks do it
And results are often the same.
October 30, 2006
IRRESPONSIBLE OIL AND GAS DRILLING IS DEVASTATING THE WEST
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
JUST SAY NO
Look Well. O Wolves. Look well, o Cheyennes!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
NORTHERN CHEYENNE ENERGY BATTLES 1977
RUBY SOOKTIS STATEMENT
This battle was being fought thirty years ago, more than a whole generation. Thanks to its courage, determination, and brilliant leadership the tribe won an amazing victory.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
ABOUT COLSTRIP UNITS 1, 2, 3 AND 4
Notes from Internet Dec 12 2005
Monday, October 09, 2006
NEW YORK TIMES
TRIBAL COLLEGES GRAPPLE WITH CHALLENGES OF SUCCESSBy Steven A. Holmes
Published: August 3, 1997
Monday, October 09, 2006
TONGUE RIVER RAILROAD AS OF 1998
By JIM ROBBINS
Published: December 13, 1998
Thursday, October 05, 2006
THE MOST IMPORTANT TRIBE IN THIS COUNTRY
In 1979 a very significant book was published. It was “The Rape of the Great Plains: Northwest America, Cattle and Coal,” by University of Montana history professor K. Ross Toole.
Ross Toole dedicates this book “To the dedicated and knowledgeable environmentalists in the Great Plains states upon whose persistence the fate of a great land depends.” He includes the Northern Cheyennes among them.
Monday, October 02, 2006
NORTHERN CHEYENNE BATTLES WERE NOT JUST WITH CAVALRY --
SOME OF THE BIGGEST HAPPENED DURING RESERVATION YEARS
Story of the Northern Cheyenne Unallotment Act of 1955. led by John Woodenlegs
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Gazette story on Marquis book of Northern Cheyenne photos
See comments -- lots of Cheyenne respondents on line.
Friday, September 29, 2006
SWEET MEDICINE'S PROPHECY
Sweet Medicine’s Prophecy
They will be powerful people, strong, tough. They will fly up in the air, into the sky, they will dig under the earth, they will drain the earth and kill it. All over the earth they will kill the trees and the grass, they will put their own grass and their own hay, but the earth will be dead -- all the old trees and grass and animals. They are coming closer all the time. Back there, New York, those places, the earth is already dead. Here we are lucky. It’s nice here. It’s pretty. We have this good air. This prairie hay still grows. But they are coming all thetime, turn the land over and kill it, more and more babies being born, more and more people coming. That’s what He said.
He said the white men would be so powerful. so strong. They could take thunder, that electricity from the sky, and light their houses. Maybe they would even be able to reach up and take the moon, or stars maybe, one or two. Maybe they still can’t do that . . .
Our old food we used to eat was good. The meat from buffalo and game was good. It made us strong. These cows are good to eat, soft, tender, but they are not like that meat. Our people used to live a long time. Today we eat white man’s food, we cannot live so lonng -- maybe seventy, maybe eighty years, not a hundred. Sweet Medicine told us that. He said the white man was too strong. He said hiis food would be sweet, and after we taste that food we want it. Chokecherries and plums, and wild turnips, and honey from the wild bees, that was our food. This other food is too sweet. We eat it and forget. . . . . .It’s all coming true, what He said.
FRED LAST BULL
KEEPER OF THE SACRED ARROWS
BUSBY, MONTANA
SEPTEMBER 1957
A NORTHERN CHEYENNE VOICE
from Tribal Heritage Program,
Western Heritage Center,
Billings
Keith Beartusk, Northern Cheyenne Tribe
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND SOILS
CBM Water and Soils
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND WATER
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE WATER AND SOILS
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND AIR QUALITY -- DESTROYS RETIREMENT DREAM
Friday, September 29, 2006
COAL BED METHANE AND AIR QUALITY: CBM Creates Dust Plague
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
New York Times Coalbed Methane Endangers Tongue River
September 12 2006
New York Times details coalbed methane extraction in Eastern Montana.
In the West, a Water Fight Over Quality, Not Quantity
By JIM ROBBINS
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
News From Custer Battlefield
NEWS FROM CUSTER BATTLEFIELD
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Sources at Indian Country Today
Search for Northern Cheyenne at Indian Country Today newspaper
yielded many results as recent as Sept. 22 2006
http://www.indiancountry.com/search.cfm?category=8&category2=2&author=0
Monday, September 25, 2006
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
FEATURE ARTICLE - January 20, 2003
A breath of fresh air
by Bob Struckman and Ray Ring
Monday, September 25, 2006
HOMELAND FILM
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action is a film which can be seen by making arrangements with the Cultural Center at Chief Dull Knife College. It includes
***** Gail Small: The Coal Wars
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Lame Deer, Montana
Evon Peter: The People and the Caribou Are One
Arctic Village, Alaska
Rita & Mitchel Capitan: Yellowcake, New Mexico
Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
Barry Dana: A People and Their River
Penobscot River, Maine
Monday, September 25, 2006
PARTIAL VICTORY 2005Current Developments
• Northern Cheyenne Tribe had a partial victory on February 25, 2005 when a federal judge in Billings, Montana ruled that a statewide environmental study by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of coalbed methane development in Montana was inadequate. This ruling comes from lawsuits filed in 2003 against BLM and the Department of Interior Secretary Gale Norton by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the Northern Plains Resource Council.
Monday, September 25, 2006
THE COAL WARS
FOR full text of 2005 ARTICLE Gail Small: The Coal Wars
Northern Cheyenne Reservation,
Lame Deer, Montana
PLEASE ACCESS THE LINK POSTED VOICES FROM THE EARTH
Saturday, September 23, 2006
American Heritage Book of Indians 1961
p. 337 “Above all, the new world of the horse brought time and temptation to dream. The plains are afloat in mysterious space, and the winds come straight from heaven. Anyone alone in the plains turns into a mystic. The plains had always been a place for dreams, but with horses they were more so. Something happens to a man when he gets on a horse, in a country where he can ride at a run forever; it is quite easy to ascend to an impression of living in a myth. He either feels like a god or feels closer to God, There seems never to have been a race of plains horsemen that was not either fanatically proud or fanatically religious. The Plains Indians were both. “
