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Native Americans say Thanksgiving an insult By Kim Spurlock Staff Reporter The Thanksgiving celebration in America is an insult to Native Ameri cans, two speakers told a group of about 50 UNL students and faculty Thursday. Linda Coombs, a member of the Wampanoag Nation and Cinnamon Nolley, a member of the Tuscarora Nation, both American Indian tribes, ended a month-long Women in Per spective series with a presentation of what Thanksgiving means to Native Americans. The Women in Perspective series was sponsored by the Women’s Re source Center. Coombs and Nolley said they go intoa“dayofmouming”on the fourth Thursday of every November. Nolley said Native Americans celebrate Thanksgiving differently than other American cultures. “I celebrate Green Com harvest,” Nolley said. “I think harvest festivals are important to all cultures, but the symbols they (Americans) use are stereotypical of the Indians and mis represent the Pilgrims.” When tourists visit the Plymouth Plantation Museum in Massachusetts and see the replica of the Mayflower, Coombs said, many ask where the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria are. r .. .. ■' > —44 They’re celebrating something that was established over the graves of a whole people. Coombs member of the Wampanoag Nation --tt - Coombs said Americans “have their heads in the clouds” and don’t under stand the concept of Thanksgiving. “They’re celebrating something mat was established over the graves of a whole people,” Coombs said. “It’s a myth.” r-... Coombs said that because Christo pher Columbus brought disease to America, more than 75 percent of the American Indian population died. She said that before Columbus came to America, there were 70 to 120 million American Indians. After he arrived, the population dwindled to about 20 million. Coombs said she docs not support the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery, because he did not dis cover America. “If he discovered America, what were these 70 million people doing?” Coombs said. I -- Officials bid for compact site By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Senior Reporter Headquartering the Midwest Higher Education Compact in Lincoln would be advantageous to Nebraska, according to University of Nebraska officials. Martin Massengale, NU presi dent, predicted that the compact, a group of seven states committed to higher education concerns in the Midwest, would grow in size and importance in the future. “I think if Lincoln were selected as the headquarters, it would be important for Nebraska and for higher education,” he said. Nebraska joined the compact earlier this year. Other members are Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio. The compact would help higher education in Nebraska in many ways, Massengale said. “It would be a ready resource for us here in terms of accessing information,” he said. One of the biggest advantages, Massengale said, could come from student-exchange programs between schools in the compact. For example, Nebraska students who wished to study optometry would be allowed to study at an other school in the compact, he said. Such programs could cut back on college costs by allowing uni versities to send those who wished to study in areas that were unavail able at their own schools to institu tions that did offer the programs. Exchange programs would al low universities to use each other’s area of expertise without having to Dav for it themselves, he said. Massengale said he looks for ward to working with the com pact’s members. “We are eager to participate with other states in seeing what we can do to be more effective and effi cient with education,” he said. Representatives of the compact met with Gov. Ben Nelson and Nebraska higher education leaders Monday to discuss the possibility of locating the compact’s head quarters in Lincoln. Three other cities — Cleveland, Chicago and Minneapolis — are being consid ered Several proposals were offered by state officials at the meeting to entice the compact representatives to base the compact in Lincoln. Sandy Scofield, Nelson’s chief of-staff, said the state offered to finance housing the compact head quarters at the offices of Nebraska’s Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education. The compact would be able to share facilities and research materials with the coordinating commission if the compact decided to locate in Lin coln, she said. That was made possible by a pledge of financial support from higher education officials across the state, she said. Scofield said that the other cit ies being considered are tough competition for Lincoln, but added that she thinks the compact offi- • cials have been impressed with the state’s proposal. “I think they went away with a very favorable impression of Ne braska,” she said. A final decision will be made by the compact’s representatives Dec. _r UNL graduate receives radiation therapy technology award crom Staff Reports s' ~ Diane Chadwell, a 1979 UNL dumna, has received the 1991 Varian \ward for Achievement in Radiation rhcrapy Technology. The national award was given Nov. 6 in Washington, D.C., at the 15th Radiation Therapy Conference, spon sored by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists in conjunc tion with the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncol ogy. 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