"In Search Of The Sacred Tobacco Plant" Apsáalooke Nation/ Crow Tribe
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http://www.crowtribe.com/history.htm
We know where we came from, we know where we’ve been, and we know whom we are. We came through three transitions to become who we are. We were (Awaakiiwilaxpaake) People of the Earth, we were all one mankind, we became (Biiluke) on Our Side, we became (Awashe) Earthen Lodges, and we became Apsáalooke some 2000 years ago.
While we were (Awaakiiwilaxpaake) People of the Earth, when the birds and animals could talk, some of us wanted to fight each other. They wanted warfare. They approached our Creator and asked if they could fight each other. Our Creator said, “First you must prove to me that you are men enough to fight.” He placed a man, with a bow and arrow at the bottom of a sheer cliff in the water and told the men to dive off the cliff, but soon changed their minds once they saw the man with his bow and arrow cocked and ready to shoot anyone who dove off the cliff.
Finally one man walked up to the cliff and dove off into the water. He lay dead in the water with an arrow protruding from his collarbone and blood streaming from his nostrils. Our Creator said, “Iilak bacheek, there is a man (kooshtakaatbaawiik). I won’t make too many of him, (baapiihaaksee) from this day forward, (haaweewiakssaalah) try to wipe him out.” From that time we have been called Biiluke. Even unto this day we still refer ourselves as Biiluke.
While we were Biiluke. We lived in a wooded area with vast bodies of water (Balebilichke isaatkaasuuk). We were fishermen, we hunted small game and waterfowl, we dug up roots and bulbs, we gathered nuts and berries, and we trapped the fur-bearing animals for our clothing. We lived in makeshift shelters, lean-tos and wickiups. We migrated westward to the banks of the Big River, in search of a certain Sacred Tobacco Plant, which was to be found in a mountainous region. We became Awashe, Earthen Lodges.
We retained all of our survival skills, but we became farmers. Oral history says, “We didn’t stay there too long and we moved on, but for some reason we spoke the same language, which is still used today, after some two thousand years.” No Vitals with many of his family and friends of the Real Water Band, of the Awashe, broke from the band, in search of the Sacred Tobacco Plant. This was the exodus that commenced the Great Migration.
We migrated throughout the northern and southern plains, where we came upon lakes with salt on their banks. We ventured into Canada twice but the Sacred Tobacco Plant could not be found. No Vitals has passed away during the migration on the Great Plains. It was his son who carried on this quest and fasted on Cloud’s Peak and saw The Sacred Tobacco Plant glowing on the east slopes of the Big Horn Mountains, where “Raven Owner Was Badgered.” The Sacred Tobacco Society was initiated about this time, and that was the beginning of the Apsáalooke Nation. We picked up and adopted various aspects of our Apsáalooke way of life, as we progressed from one era to another.
http://www.precisionpetroleumcorp.com/montana.php
Precision Petroleum Corporation has entered into a joint venture agreement which grants the Company first right of refusal on Montana based Oil, Gas and Coal properties. Phase 1 of this project is a 1,600 acre plot with a focus on developing after an in depth engineering program. From data obtained by the engineering program results, this 1600 acre area is where management intends to drill the first 10 wells.
The Crow Allottees are Indians whose relatives were given land originally granted to the Allottees itself as a result of The Great Allotment Act of 1887 and The Crow Allotment Act of 1920. The Allottees, by definition, are those original Allotment beneficiaries and/or their descendants who want to obtain capital funding to develop their mineral assets within the boundaries of the Powder River Basin in Montana.
It is well documented that it has been difficult for many outside groups to deal with Crow Tribal councils regarding investments on Allottee's land due to conflicts within the Crow Council. Realizing this and understanding that their best chance for prosperity was to form a co-op group outside the rules and regulations of the Crow Tribal council, these Allottees formed an LLC under Indian law to forge partnerships with developers, drillers and oil, gas and coal companies to finally receive the financial benefits of the vast mineral resources that exist on their land.
http://www.precisionpetroleumcorp.com/montana.php
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Currently PPTO is not involved with the cultivation of Hemp, but laws were changed... it could be a different story.
The Hemp Industries Association is pleased to announce that the 17th Annual HIA Convention & Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday and Monday, November 7-8, 2010 at the Holiday Inn - Civic Center in San Francisco, CA, directly after the SF Green Festival on November 5-7. To learn more, please click here.
http://www.thehia.org/
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/415/whiteplume.shtml
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident Alex White Plume and his family were in federal appeals court Tuesday in a bid to force a lower court to consider whether hemp is in fact an illegal crop. In 2000 and 2001, White Plume and his family sowed hemp crops, only to have them destroyed by federal raiders. The following year, the federal government sought and won an injunction to bar White Plume from planting again.
The judges of the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis heard White Plume attorney Bruce Ellison argue that both tribal ordinance and the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868 gave the family the legal right to grow the industrial crop. "Our contention is we're not growing a drug, and since we're not growing a drug, we don't need to apply to the government for permission," said Ellison.
The Congress distinguished between hemp and marijuana in 1937, Ellison argued. "As a non-drug crop, it's the same thing as squash or potatoes," he said. "We don't need to get permission from anyone because we're not growing a drug."
US Attorney Mark Salter unsurprisingly disagreed. "Until and unless someone changes the definition of marijuana, it's marijuana," he said. Nor does White Plume or the tribe have any treaty right to determine what they grow. "Nowhere in there does it say signatory tribes have the right to grow whatever they want on that land," Salter said.
While the appeals court judges wondered why the White Plumes had not applied for a permit to grow, Frankl explained that the DEA simply failed to ever issue commercial industrial hemp permits. "While there is a process technically, in this case, it's to no avail," he said.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals did not set a date for their ruling, which could come down in weeks or months.
provencial..... I'm with you 100%
http://www.crowtribe.com/history.htm
We know where we came from, we know where we’ve been, and we know whom we are. We came through three transitions to become who we are. We were (Awaakiiwilaxpaake) People of the Earth, we were all one mankind, we became (Biiluke) on Our Side, we became (Awashe) Earthen Lodges, and we became Apsáalooke some 2000 years ago.
While we were (Awaakiiwilaxpaake) People of the Earth, when the birds and animals could talk, some of us wanted to fight each other. They wanted warfare. They approached our Creator and asked if they could fight each other. Our Creator said, “First you must prove to me that you are men enough to fight.” He placed a man, with a bow and arrow at the bottom of a sheer cliff in the water and told the men to dive off the cliff, but soon changed their minds once they saw the man with his bow and arrow cocked and ready to shoot anyone who dove off the cliff.
Finally one man walked up to the cliff and dove off into the water. He lay dead in the water with an arrow protruding from his collarbone and blood streaming from his nostrils. Our Creator said, “Iilak bacheek, there is a man (kooshtakaatbaawiik). I won’t make too many of him, (baapiihaaksee) from this day forward, (haaweewiakssaalah) try to wipe him out.” From that time we have been called Biiluke. Even unto this day we still refer ourselves as Biiluke.
While we were Biiluke. We lived in a wooded area with vast bodies of water (Balebilichke isaatkaasuuk). We were fishermen, we hunted small game and waterfowl, we dug up roots and bulbs, we gathered nuts and berries, and we trapped the fur-bearing animals for our clothing. We lived in makeshift shelters, lean-tos and wickiups. We migrated westward to the banks of the Big River, in search of a certain Sacred Tobacco Plant, which was to be found in a mountainous region. We became Awashe, Earthen Lodges.
We retained all of our survival skills, but we became farmers. Oral history says, “We didn’t stay there too long and we moved on, but for some reason we spoke the same language, which is still used today, after some two thousand years.” No Vitals with many of his family and friends of the Real Water Band, of the Awashe, broke from the band, in search of the Sacred Tobacco Plant. This was the exodus that commenced the Great Migration.
We migrated throughout the northern and southern plains, where we came upon lakes with salt on their banks. We ventured into Canada twice but the Sacred Tobacco Plant could not be found. No Vitals has passed away during the migration on the Great Plains. It was his son who carried on this quest and fasted on Cloud’s Peak and saw The Sacred Tobacco Plant glowing on the east slopes of the Big Horn Mountains, where “Raven Owner Was Badgered.” The Sacred Tobacco Society was initiated about this time, and that was the beginning of the Apsáalooke Nation. We picked up and adopted various aspects of our Apsáalooke way of life, as we progressed from one era to another.
http://www.precisionpetroleumcorp.com/montana.php
Precision Petroleum Corporation has entered into a joint venture agreement which grants the Company first right of refusal on Montana based Oil, Gas and Coal properties. Phase 1 of this project is a 1,600 acre plot with a focus on developing after an in depth engineering program. From data obtained by the engineering program results, this 1600 acre area is where management intends to drill the first 10 wells.
The Crow Allottees are Indians whose relatives were given land originally granted to the Allottees itself as a result of The Great Allotment Act of 1887 and The Crow Allotment Act of 1920. The Allottees, by definition, are those original Allotment beneficiaries and/or their descendants who want to obtain capital funding to develop their mineral assets within the boundaries of the Powder River Basin in Montana.
It is well documented that it has been difficult for many outside groups to deal with Crow Tribal councils regarding investments on Allottee's land due to conflicts within the Crow Council. Realizing this and understanding that their best chance for prosperity was to form a co-op group outside the rules and regulations of the Crow Tribal council, these Allottees formed an LLC under Indian law to forge partnerships with developers, drillers and oil, gas and coal companies to finally receive the financial benefits of the vast mineral resources that exist on their land.
http://www.precisionpetroleumcorp.com/montana.php
OTC:PPTO
$0.0255 - (0.00)
as of 10/4/2010 at 2:10pm EST
Current Volume 3000
Currently PPTO is not involved with the cultivation of Hemp, but laws were changed... it could be a different story.
The Hemp Industries Association is pleased to announce that the 17th Annual HIA Convention & Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday and Monday, November 7-8, 2010 at the Holiday Inn - Civic Center in San Francisco, CA, directly after the SF Green Festival on November 5-7. To learn more, please click here.
http://www.thehia.org/
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/415/whiteplume.shtml
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident Alex White Plume and his family were in federal appeals court Tuesday in a bid to force a lower court to consider whether hemp is in fact an illegal crop. In 2000 and 2001, White Plume and his family sowed hemp crops, only to have them destroyed by federal raiders. The following year, the federal government sought and won an injunction to bar White Plume from planting again.
The judges of the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis heard White Plume attorney Bruce Ellison argue that both tribal ordinance and the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868 gave the family the legal right to grow the industrial crop. "Our contention is we're not growing a drug, and since we're not growing a drug, we don't need to apply to the government for permission," said Ellison.
The Congress distinguished between hemp and marijuana in 1937, Ellison argued. "As a non-drug crop, it's the same thing as squash or potatoes," he said. "We don't need to get permission from anyone because we're not growing a drug."
US Attorney Mark Salter unsurprisingly disagreed. "Until and unless someone changes the definition of marijuana, it's marijuana," he said. Nor does White Plume or the tribe have any treaty right to determine what they grow. "Nowhere in there does it say signatory tribes have the right to grow whatever they want on that land," Salter said.
While the appeals court judges wondered why the White Plumes had not applied for a permit to grow, Frankl explained that the DEA simply failed to ever issue commercial industrial hemp permits. "While there is a process technically, in this case, it's to no avail," he said.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals did not set a date for their ruling, which could come down in weeks or months.
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