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.
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They’re celebrating
something that was
established over the
graves of a whole
people.
Coombs
member of the Wampanoag
Nation
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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.
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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.
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UNL graduate receives radiation therapy technology award
crom Staff Reports
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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.
Chad well received the eighth annual
award for her contributions to the
profession of radiation therapy tech
nology.
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