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LETTERS continue up a benefit fund to raise money for Shelly. She needs a bone marrow transplant by July 15th of this year. This is a life-and-death situatioa She is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her family, Jim, Sherry, Kelly and Clayton Malatare, in Seattle, WA. They lived at Turtle Lake before they were forced to move because of the need to be near Children’s Hospital. Shelly has had leukemia for about three years now. She has undergone many treatments and operations. She now needs all her friends’ help. She needs $15,000 now! Please send what you can to First Citizens Bank of Poison, c/o The Shelly Malatare Benefit Fund For more information, call Mr. and Mrs. Jim Malatare, (206) 937-0206, or write: Del Ridge Way S.W., Seattle, WA 98106. K. Streets Poison Donations needed by NY journal ___________ Friends: As planting season approaches, we here at Akwesasne Notes go into our seventeenth year as a journal for Native and natural people. As we plant our garden crops we wish everyone everywhere a good season of growth. Our own growth as a newsjournal is the continued coverage of world events which affects indigenous people and others. W e live in a world now where each of us feels the results of man made technology, from the threat of nuclear warfare, planet-wide pollution, genetic engineering, to the very real threat of eventual starvation through ecological disaster, if steps aren’t taken immediately to care for this Earth of ours. Akwesasne Notes continues to gain many new friends around this earth. Recent issues have covered such diverse places as Japan, Australia, Tasmania, the Arctic, Europe and North and South America. This diversity includes: land rights, fishing rights, international movements of indigenous people, self-sufficiency, acid rain and other forms of pollution, and especially the Peace M o vem ent It always seems to be indigenous people who suffer m ost Often their voices would not be heard unless reported by such papers as our own. W e feel this to to be our duty and will continue to report these things. W e give free subscriptions to many such people find groups who cannot afford to pay money which they do not have. Our reward from them is the knowledge that we have helped to make known their problems, and this would be reward enough were we able to pursue our work without having to worry about our many costs in producing our newsjournal. The staff of Akwesasne Notes is paid a very minimum subsistence salary. W e receive no government or corpor ation funds to keep us going. W e exist solely on sub scriptions and your donations. And so we are again asking that you or your organizations help us continue our important work by sending us a donation. Tax-deductable \SUSSED ARE THEY WHO SHOW MERCY. MERCY SHALL SE THEIRS.\ (MATTHEW 5:7) ytcd meMOfe ut A/hMt&vied t&c S t r)y * a t i u & (Z a t f o l i c T K c t e f o * Western Montana’s Best in Prices, Service and Convenience Highway 93 Top of the Hill South of Poison 406/883-5231 contributions can be sent directly to us here at Akwesasne Notes, and made payable to Akwesasne Notes/Viola White- water Foundation, Box 196, Mohawk Nation, Roosevel- town, NY 13683-0196. W e are at a very bad time financially. Please help us at this time. May your gardens prosper and your summer season be good Niawen, The Notes People Rooseveltown, NY Remember “90/10”? Here's 9 6 / 4 ___________ Editor. This letter is for the purpose o f offering my opinions to the Tribal Council and the Tribal membership on how the Kerr money might be used wisely, to benefit A LL of us concerned, not just a preferred few. It is also to comment on a couple of statements which have been made recently by a few of the Council members. In the June 13,1985, issue of The Char-Koosta, on page 3, there appears this comment by Kevin Howlett: “ If Tribal employees were prohibited from serving on the Council, the membership would have to choose its leaders from among the unemployed and unemployable” . . . clearly, inferring that the ONLY ones who have a job and are considered capable of being on the Council, are the Tribal employees and the Council themselves!! And that the rest of the members living on the Reservation are illiterate and im poverished If this is indeed the status of the general (Continues on page nine) Page 8 CSKTs Char-Koosta News, Pablo, MT July 11,1985
