Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] checkerboard art & making a tribe whole again
Date: Mar 28, 2001 @ 15:46
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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excuse me
the cahuilla black & white creation story link should have been
http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/indigenous/Cahuilla.htm
& is heartily recommended

m

>
>>
>>The bill ALLOWS them to purchase land? Why can't they purchase it normally?
>>
>>B
>
>good question
>
>& frankly i had just assumed this was the simple result of their normal
>status of dispossession
> both economic & civil
>
>but it seems their posture is even more contortionistic than usual in this
>case
>because of the double jeopardy of being a double checkerboard tribe
>
>because reservations are held in trust for the tribes by the federal
>government
>diminutions of this trust as a result of land sales by indians to
>nonindians are common
>amounting to an incredible 80 or 90 percent on some idaho reservations
> tho the maps rarely show those losses
>
>but additions to the reservation trust areas are never accomplished as a
>result of equally real purchases of additional land by indians
>
>in this case tho the peculiar hydraulics of the salton sea have resulted
>in the creation of both federal & local water control districts
> which further legally disempower these particular 140 indians
>as you can see especially in section 303 of the bill sandwiched in the
>record of this speech to a congressional committee by a tribal official
><http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/105cong/water/98mar12/lopez.htm>
>http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/105cong/water/98mar12/lopez.htm
>
>in it there is mention of a legally restricted reservation area that is
>clearly different from & more comprehensive than the legal territorial area
>of the reservation within the checkerboard
>
>m
>
>
>incidentally
>my little joke about the design of the torres martinez & agua caliente
>checkerboards expressing a traditional cahuilla motif
>was actually right on the money
>in earnest
>
>you can even see in their creation story at
><http://www4.hmc.edu:800/humanities/indigenous/Cahuilla.htm>
>http://www4.hmc.edu:800/humanities/indigenous/Cahuilla.htm
>they are as dualistic as taoists or zoroastrians
>& come with a powerfully alternating black & white imagery
>
>& here is even an early formative or paleo checkerboard boundary rock &
>maps of their primordial world at
><http://www.chass.ucr.edu/costo/page8.html>
>http://www.chass.ucr.edu/costo/page8.html
>perhaps even a playmate for the 1360 rock
>
>seeing as they equate age with wisdom
>& predate europeans in their area by 1000 years
>per <http://www.traveler.com/palmspri/history/indian.html>
>http://www.traveler.com/palmspri/history/indian.html
>my provisional conclusion is that
>they may actually have known full well what they were doing & may have been
>very much at cause in the creation of their reservation art
>
>
>
>
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