Post by blackcrowheart on Feb 11, 2006 12:10:53 GMT -5
Museum of the Plains Indian Browning,MT. Please help Save:0)
A second meeting of the public is scheduled for Tuesday, February 14, 2006
in the Eagle Shield Senior Citizens Center in Browning, MT beginning at 5 p
m. A pot luck dinner is planned.
A report is expected from a representative of Congressman Denny Rehberg as
the result of the first meeting held in the same location on February 1,
2006. It is expected that representatives will be present from Senators Max
Baucus and Senator Burns as invitations have been sent to them for the
second meeting.
Progress in getting other communities involved is meeting with success. The
Cut Bank City Council, Cut Bank, Montana passed a resolution in support of
keeping all cultural items in the Browning was passed on Monday, February 6,
2006. Long Standing Bear Chief of Browning was on hand to answer questions
relating to the petition.
Long Standing Bear Chief related that the Museum was a federal public
facility and not owned by the Blackfeet Tribe. The Museum of the Plains
Indian is a major cultural attraction for the northwestern part of Montana,
with many people coming from all over the world as part of family, student
and organized guided tours.
Cut Bank Mayor Joni Stewart on behalf of all city councilman gave assurance
that a copy of the petition in support of all museum contents remaining in
Browning was going to be available for all area citizens to sign when they
came to Cut Bank City Hall to conduct business.
The purpose of the second meeting is to form Circles of Interest so as to
insure that all persons, Indian and non-Indian, will become a part of the
overall action plan to prevent the Museum of the Plains Indians contents
from being removed to Washington, D.C. as announced in the Great Falls
Tribune on Sunday, January 1, 2006.
Ms. Francis Pierre, Salish (Flathead) and Keith Chief Moon (Blood) have
agreed to become members of the action planning group. Members of other
Indian Nations as represented by virtue of their cultural artifacts being in
the Museum of the Plains Indian are actively being sought to join the
overall effort.
Local people who are organizing people to join in the effort regarding the
future of the Museum of the Plains Indian are Long Standing, Bear Chief,
Charles DeRoche, Al Potts, Ms. Marceau, Leo Wolverine, Faye Red Fox, Denise
Bear Medicine Sharp, Jay Running Crane, Gilbert Aims Back, Mark Running Wolf
Other persons have been contacted to join and their names will be made
known in the near future.
(Please pass the word)
A second meeting of the public is scheduled for Tuesday, February 14, 2006
in the Eagle Shield Senior Citizens Center in Browning, MT beginning at 5 p
m. A pot luck dinner is planned.
A report is expected from a representative of Congressman Denny Rehberg as
the result of the first meeting held in the same location on February 1,
2006. It is expected that representatives will be present from Senators Max
Baucus and Senator Burns as invitations have been sent to them for the
second meeting.
Progress in getting other communities involved is meeting with success. The
Cut Bank City Council, Cut Bank, Montana passed a resolution in support of
keeping all cultural items in the Browning was passed on Monday, February 6,
2006. Long Standing Bear Chief of Browning was on hand to answer questions
relating to the petition.
Long Standing Bear Chief related that the Museum was a federal public
facility and not owned by the Blackfeet Tribe. The Museum of the Plains
Indian is a major cultural attraction for the northwestern part of Montana,
with many people coming from all over the world as part of family, student
and organized guided tours.
Cut Bank Mayor Joni Stewart on behalf of all city councilman gave assurance
that a copy of the petition in support of all museum contents remaining in
Browning was going to be available for all area citizens to sign when they
came to Cut Bank City Hall to conduct business.
The purpose of the second meeting is to form Circles of Interest so as to
insure that all persons, Indian and non-Indian, will become a part of the
overall action plan to prevent the Museum of the Plains Indians contents
from being removed to Washington, D.C. as announced in the Great Falls
Tribune on Sunday, January 1, 2006.
Ms. Francis Pierre, Salish (Flathead) and Keith Chief Moon (Blood) have
agreed to become members of the action planning group. Members of other
Indian Nations as represented by virtue of their cultural artifacts being in
the Museum of the Plains Indian are actively being sought to join the
overall effort.
Local people who are organizing people to join in the effort regarding the
future of the Museum of the Plains Indian are Long Standing, Bear Chief,
Charles DeRoche, Al Potts, Ms. Marceau, Leo Wolverine, Faye Red Fox, Denise
Bear Medicine Sharp, Jay Running Crane, Gilbert Aims Back, Mark Running Wolf
Other persons have been contacted to join and their names will be made
known in the near future.
(Please pass the word)