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Sacred Fire on its way to Washington, DC

Christian Peacemaker Teams
Thursday, September 9, 1999

SOUTH DAKOTA - Two CPTers, Joanne Kaufman and Cliff Kindy, will accompany approximately 50 members of a Lakota delegation to Washington, DC, from September 9-19, 1999.
There are two goals for the trip: 1) to bring visibility to Lakota treaty issues and the protest camp on La Framboise Island, and 2) to influence legislative action which threatens to transfer treaty land to the state of South Dakota.
During the bus trek to DC there will be four stops for speaking and news conferences. Those will happen in conjunction with native issues study centers at universities in Sioux City, Iowa City, Indianapolis, and DC.
Traveling with the group will be many elders and youth well-versed on the issues of treaty rights and the experiences of the Lakota with the US government. Six people from the La Framboise protest camp will be part of the delegation. They will be carrying the camp's sacred fire, the first of the Seven Council Fires to be re-lit. The fire is a symbol that the 1868 treaty, which grants to the Lakota all land west of the Missouri River in South Dakota, has not been extinguished.
In DC, in addition to the press conference, the delegation will be meeting with legislators and other interested individuals and groups. The effort will be to encourage the repeal of both Mitigation Acts which have become law and would transfer about 92,000 acres of tribal land to South Dakota.

For more information, concerning the Oceti
Sakowin spiritual encampment on LaFramboise
Island near Pierre, South Dakota, contact:
Laframboise Resistance Camp
C/O The South Dakota Peace and Justice Center
P.O. Box 405
Watertown, South Dakota 57201
Phone: (605) 222-1780
Fax: (Attention Robert Quiver) (605)224-2520
email: Robert Quiver
Contact the Christian Peacemaker Team on the Island.
Phone CPT: 605-222-2999, Vernon Schmidt: 605-747-2269,
Emily Iron Cloud-Koenen: 605-455-2193

Christian Peacemaker Teams is an initiative among Mennonite and Church of the
Brethren congregations and Friends Meetings that supports violence reduction
efforts around the world. Contact: CPT P. O. Box 6508 Chicago, IL 60680
Telephone: 312-455-1199 ~*~ Fax: 312-666-2677 ~*~ e-mail: cpt@igc.org
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Document provided by: Kathy Kern, Rochester, NY

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