Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] checkerboard art & making a tribe whole again<br/>
Date: Mar 28, 2001 @ 15:19<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
<a href="1939.htm">Prev</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post in Topic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="1946.htm">Next</a>&emsp;[<a href="topic1939.htm">All</a> Posts]<br/>
<a href="1944.htm">Prev</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post in Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="1946.htm">Next</a><br/>
<br/><br/>
<div id="ygrps-yiv-958449944"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;<br/>
&gt;The bill ALLOWS them to purchase land? Why can&#39;t they purchase it normally?<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;B<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>good question<br/>
<br/>
& frankly i had just assumed this was the simple result of their normal<br/>
status of dispossession<br/>
  both economic & civil<br/>
<br/>
but it seems their posture is even more contortionistic than usual in this case<br/>
because of the double jeopardy of being a double checkerboard tribe<br/>
<br/>
because reservations are held in trust for the tribes by the federal government<br/>
diminutions of this trust as a result of land sales by indians to<br/>
nonindians are common<br/>
amounting to an incredible 80 or 90 percent on some idaho reservations<br/>
  tho the maps rarely show those losses<br/>
<br/>
but additions to the reservation trust areas are never accomplished as a<br/>
result of equally real  purchases  of additional land by indians<br/>
<br/>
in this case tho  the peculiar hydraulics of the salton sea have resulted<br/>
in the creation of both federal & local water control districts<br/>
  which further legally disempower these particular 140 indians<br/>
as you can see especially in section 303 of the bill sandwiched in the<br/>
record of this speech to a congressional committee by a tribal official<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/105cong/water/98mar12/lopez.htm">http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/105cong/water/98mar12/lopez.htm</a><br/>
<br/>
in it there is mention of a legally restricted  reservation  area  that is<br/>
clearly different from & more comprehensive than the legal territorial area<br/>
of the reservation within the checkerboard<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
incidentally<br/>
my little joke about the design of the torres martinez & agua caliente<br/>
checkerboards expressing a traditional cahuilla motif<br/>
was actually right on the money<br/>
in earnest<br/>
<br/>
you can even see in their creation story at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www4.hmc.edu:800/humanities/indigenous/Cahuilla.htm">http://www4.hmc.edu:800/humanities/indigenous/Cahuilla.htm</a><br/>
they are as dualistic as taoists or zoroastrians<br/>
& come with a powerfully alternating black & white imagery<br/>
<br/>
& here is even an early formative or paleo checkerboard boundary rock &<br/>
maps of their primordial world at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.chass.ucr.edu/costo/page8.html">http://www.chass.ucr.edu/costo/page8.html</a><br/>
perhaps even a playmate for the 1360 rock<br/>
<br/>
seeing as they equate age with wisdom<br/>
& predate europeans in their area by 1000 years<br/>
per <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.traveler.com/palmspri/history/indian.html">http://www.traveler.com/palmspri/history/indian.html</a><br/>
my provisional conclusion is that<br/>
they may actually have known full well what they were doing & may have been<br/>
very much at cause in the creation of their reservation art</div>