Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday July 4 1999 — Page 5 i ! J i j Pine Ridge demonstrators greeted by riot police WHITECLAY Neb (AP) — Members of the Oglala Sioux tribe converged on this tiny town Saturday to protest alleged treaty violations unsolved murders and alcohol sales and nine people were arrested including activist Russell Means About ISO people marched the two miles from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and scores of others rode in cars They were met by more than 100 Nebraska state ed troopers who stood with the marchers and ordered them not to cross a line of yellow tape at the edge of Whiteclay toe-to-t- oe about a city block from the state line Moments later Means and several other demonstrators crossed the tape and were arrested One man riding bareback on a horse skirted the police line and rode hollering through an adjacent field “I tried to fire my people up" said the rider Billy Joe Bean The demonstration later ended peacefully and most of the participants headed back to Pine Ridge Means and the others who were arrested would probably be given misdemeanor citations for refusing a lawful order state police said The town's 22 residents had been ordered to leave the day before by Nebraska Gov Mike Johanns While tribal leaders said it would be a peaceful march some participants had threatened to occupy the village until state officials addressed their con- cerns A rally one week ago in Whiteclay ended with looting and burning The protest stems from allegations by AIM leaders and members of the Oglala Sioux that the federal government has violated an 1868 treaty that reserved pans of what are now North Dakota and South Dakota Wyoming Montana and Nebraska for the Sioux Tribe members also are upset that four stores in Whiteclay sell more than S3 million worth of beer each year mostly to Indians with drinking problems Alcohol is banned on the reservation a expanse that is home to 15000 Oglala Sioux and has one of the nation's highest 5000-square-mi- lc alcoholism-relate- d mortality rates Also tribe members say local police have not done enough to investigate the deaths of two Sioux men whose bodies were found June 8 in a eulven near the Nebraska line Johanns said Nebraska could not offer much help because the bodies were found in South Dakota federal and tribal police have announced a SI 5000 reward for information on the slayings At a rail) before Saturday's march in Pine Ridge ealls for militant action in Whiteclay mingled with prayer drums and pleas for peace "If I had it my way we'd tear the damn town down to the ground but we can't do that" American Indian Movement activist Clyde Bellecourl said AIM activist Dennis Banks said he was glad there was no violence at Saturday's rally "Every body has to share in the award for that” he said “Any time confrontation is looming there should he some type of dia- logue" President Clinton is set to visit Pine Ridge on Wednesday and is expected to discuss economic development in Indian communities and tour tornado-damageparts of Oglala d ACLU supports Park visitors get too cosy with condors right to stage march neo-Nazi- s’ HAYDEN Idaho (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is trying to help a Neo-Nagroup win permission to march zi down Coeur d'Alene's main street on July 10 rather than The Associated Press t of assembly" Reynolds said “We're hoping first the city will just let them march down Sherman Avenue" she said Meanwhile Butler said his group would not march today in parade past a former dump the Coeur d'Alene as had been rumored Aryan Nations’ founder says "We are negotiating whether “An outfit totally opposed to we will march on the 10th on our interests has taken our case” Richard Butler told Sherman Avenue” he said reporters Friday at “Mr Butler’s posia news conference Opposition the one groups to open the annual tion have Aryan world conthe ACLU would already announced plans for gress at the sect's and headquarters support— even “We're going to though we don’t protests by hundreds of people see if our Constituwith his Butler said some tion is totally agree and counter-demonstratio- dead" Dawn Reynolds a Pullman Wash lawyer and ACLU ns politics — is that the First Amend- members of his sect would rally ment guarantees freedom of Coeur this afternoon at a d'Alene member said the park A childrens' organization will assembly’’ write to Coeur parade — not affiliated with the d'Alene city officials asking them — Dawn Reynolds Aryans — was scheduled on Sherto reconsider the ACLU attorney man Avenue this parade route If morning they won’t "we A white supremacy rally is are prepared to seek injunctive and declaratory relief in federal court” she said The Aryans have a permit that allows them to march July 10 on Ramsey Road The proposed route is near a defunct landfill that is now a park but several miles away from the city’s traditional downtown main street parade route where the group marched last year “Mr Butler’s position and the one the ACLU would support — even though we don't agree with his politics — is that the First Amendment guarantees freedom scheduled Sunday at the Enum-claCity Hall park in Washing- Several visitors at Bryce Canyon National Park recently-govery close to two captive-bre- d California condors released just south of the Utah border The Peregrine Fund has released 28 captive-bor- n condors into the wild in the Vermilion and Hurricane cliffs since late 1996 Some of the condors have been spotted as far north as Milford Most of the birds were raised at The Peregrine Fund's World Center for Birds of Prey near Boise Some were hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo But visitors to Bryce Canyon recently got a closer look than expected and certainly closer than desired by those who are trying to introduce the birds into the wild Between June 16 and June 22 birds No 82 and 93 perched with AP photo in inches of humans at Bryce Michael Teague left chief of staff for the Aryan Nation and the group’s leader Richard Butler hold a press conNational Park The large Canyon in Idaho still to are ference Friday Hayden announce they trying to obtain a permit to march in downtown Coeur numbers are painted on the birds' d'Alene on July 10 wings for easy identification and he would stay as long as necesconfrontation between the tracking said hut 300 to 200 only year and protesters police are people were registered for this “They were awesome” said sary to monitor the Aryans' activJim ities a Becslcy of Plain City Utah keeping high profile year's conference "I never realized just how huge At least a dozen cars from the After a rambling As Butler spoke a few neo-NaKootenai County Sheriffs skinheads and men and condors are” speech filled with and racist invectives Butler said Department and the Idaho State women wearing The birds weigh up to 25 with his followers would not march Patrol were seen in the vicinity of Nazi flags set up tents near Bupounds and have wing spans that this weekend to avoid potential the Aryan camp on Friday and tler's Church of Jesus Christ-Christia- n can reach 12 feel On an average in preparation for this day they may travel 100 miles or confrontations officers in a van with tinted win“We don't want our people dows videotaped license plates of year's conference more said Amy Nicholas a arrested clubbed to death or cars entering Butler's property The Aryans refused to let two wildlife biologist with the PereAt last summer's parade police reporters attend the press conferanything else” he said “The grine Fund ence after announcing the event police want to get out there and made about two dozen arrests Bryce Canyon visitor services Some day bust our heads including five protesters who was for whites only A radio chief Rob Dano said he was some of us will bust some heads later received an $80000 settlereporter who is Jewish and an thankful no humans fed the birds of our own” ment from Kootenai County after television while they were at the park A Moscow Idaho-base- d group they claimed their rights were reporter were barred from the “That could have habituated calling itself the Coalition violated gated grounds them to humans” Dano said The Aiyan Nations is the politAgainst Nazis has said more than During that march about 90 In 1986 only nine known Cali1000 activists will be bused to a Aryans were drowned out by ical arm of the sect which says fornia condors existed in the wild to the about 1 000 demonstrators God has ordered them to estabThose birds all captured and were Butler has said he hoped to lish a whitcs-onl- y homeland in Aryans' march on July 10 into the brought breeding captive “400-man’' Because of the potential for have a march this the Pacific Northwest program w ton state The King County Labor Council’s Diversity Committee is organizing a silent vigil to counter the rally Outside the Aryan headquarters about nine miles north of Coeur d'Alene Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin and about a dozen demonstrators used bullis horns to hurl insults at the on Friday Rubin arrived a week early because he was told the Aryans planned to march today He said Wash neo-Naz- neo-Naz- te really disturbs me is they're doing this with a gross misrepresentation of our position” The commercials say UTA and “local bureaucrats" are “engaging in a cunning scheme” to get $20 million from Congress use that money as a down payment to borrow $460 million more and then “lobby the state Legislature to have Utah citizens repay" the loans UTA has borrowed money to build the $312 line million north-sout- h light-ra- il But one loan $25 million loan was borrowed against a $62 million contribution in funds And another $65 million credit was borrowed against promised federal contributions worth about $250 mil nearly-complet- Nine injured on covered wagon SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Visitors to This is the Place Heritage Park got an overly-a- u thentic experience when a horse pulling a covered wagon ran amok Nine people were taken to the University of Utah Medical Center with minor injuries after a halter slipped off one of the two draft horses pulling the passenger wagon at Old Deseret Village on Friday The spooked horse bolted down the historic site's Center Street and crossed Main Street before breaking free of the wagon “It just ran into a ditch and the wagon virtually disintegrated" said village coordinator Michael Bennett The horse ran on another hundred feet or so before stopping R COPY zi anti-Semit- ic Asian-Americ- counter-demonstrati- Transit Authority denies SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Transit Authority has no intention of asking the state Legislature to pay $460 million for an east-we- st light rail extension here officials said They say there’s no truth in claims made by the Committee to Light Rail in Stop East-We- st commercials that aired Friday on three local radio stations The ads claimed UTA wanted to borrow the money then ask lawmakers and taxpayers to pay it back “That's absurd We couldn't do that if we wanted to" UTA General Manager John Inglish said “That's outrageous “I'm not opposed to any individual group or any group taking what a position against ours is ad claims anti-ra- il lion UTA has discussed borrowing route money to get the east-welinking the University of Utah with the Salt Lake Airport finished before the 2002 Winter Games But officials stressed that would only happen if the Federal Transit Administration promises to deliver those funds over a period of time perhaps six to eight years John Webb who owns a business along (he rail path and is a member of the citizens' committee said UTA has also made false statements in the past “I mean it is a matter of const cern but we’re basically just going off reports that were made in the newspaper" Webb added “If there’s anything wrong (with the ad) maybe we should have said ‘in our opinion' UTA is going to do this” Webb said the goal is to stall the second rail line until after the Olympics in the hopes of allowing residents to vote on it “The members of the 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