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Protesters show their support PELTIER from page 1 Linda Anfuso, a Mohawk artist and member of AIM spoke not only on behalf of Leonard Peltier, but on behalf of all American Indians, say ing they would not be silent any more. At one time, American Indians used bows and arrows, Anfuso said. They switched to guns because they realized they killed faster than arrows. Today, American Indians are arming themselves with a new weapon. “Today, we’ve discovered that laws kill faster than guns,” Anfuso said. “We will arm ourselves with law. We are prisoners in our own land, and we are fighting back.” Protesters applauded after Judi Morgan presented a resolution from the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. The resolution gave support to encouraging President Clinton to grant Peltier executive clemency or grant him a new impartial trial. Leola Bullock, a local activist for the NAACP and the Lincoln Justice Committee, urged support ers to keep in mind two other politi cal prisoners, Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa. Both are serving a life sentence in prison for the mur der of an Omaha police officer in 1971. Both were victims of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which tried to stop progressive political organizations, Bullock said. Lamere also spoke in support of Langa and Poindexter. He urged the audience to reflect on the lives of all three political prisoners, and the contributions they have made. He singled out Peltier in particular. “Presently, he resides in a small cell in Leavenworth, Kansas,” Lamere said. “He is powerless in that he can’t walk out of his cell. “But he is not powerless in help ing us to understand.” u He is powerless in that he can’t walk out of his cell Frank Lamere Nebraska Inter-Tribal Development Corporation member Daily Nebraskan Spring Break Supplement coming February 24 Here at Methodist College, we are committed to shaping students into professional, conscientious caregivers through personal development and education - Education with | Heart, Education for Life. 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MEIHOEN5T ivicinmjPi . i An Affiliate ot Methodist Health System 1 8501 West Dodge Rd. • Omaha, NE 68114 Education with Heart Education for Methodist College admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin. American Indians’ | image discussed By Amanda Schindler Staff Reporter A lilting song began an emotionally charged presentation by a visiting American Indian speaker Friday afternoon in Love Library’s Great Plains Art Gallery. Dr. Cornel Pewewardy, assistant professor in die Department ofTeaching and Leadership at the University of Kansas School of Education, spoke about education problems facing American Indians today in light of their negative portrayal in the media. “(The image) has been so imbed ded,” he said. “People want to hang on to that frontier, romanticized, freeze dried concept of Indian.” About 40 students and faculty members attended the presentation by the mass media specialist. “He didn’t disappoint at all,” said Daniel Justice, a graduate Native American literature major. “I really liked the open forum and how he made u a giuup cnuii, wmuii is vciy liiipui tant with these issues.” A pacing Pewewardy used both humor and concern to convey die harm invoked by racist attitudes toward American Indians. The attitudes that are manifested most noticeably in the use of American Indian symbols and names in the sports world, he said. The danger affects young American Indians who lose self-esteem from see ing their heritage portrayed as violent or dishonorable. The nickname of the National Football League’s Washington Redskins, for example, is a tide just as offensive as the controversial “N” word to Pewewardy, who said the word has no positive connotation. “How that evolved to be honorable, to be a mascot, I don’t know,” he said, but admitted to die indifference of many to the situation. “It’s as American as apple pie and « It is affirming diversity. It is not ethnic cheerleading” Dr. Cornel Pewewardy University of Kansas assistant professor baseball to make fun of American Indians in sports,” he said Helen Long Soldier, president of the Nebraska Indian Education Association and education specialist in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said the negative depiction extends to the University ofNebraska-Lineoln. “There’s a lack of education on this campus,” she said. “It’s our hope that people understand this.” Pewewardy stressed die importance of knowing the culture of students, and said it is a necessary step in understand ing how to teach diem. He said cultural correctness rather than political correctness formed a healthy learning environment. “It is affirming diversity,” he said. “It is not ethnic cheerleading.” He demonstrated several types of narmiui stereotypes, including toy tom ahawks, peace pipes and face paint from the Disney film “Pocahontas.” Pewewardy encouraged working toward changing all aspects of American Indian stereotypes, including newspaper policies prohibiting words like “scalp” and “massacre,” and refus ing to play teams with names or mascots alluding to American Indians. Pewewardy said possible changes take time, often years, to implement, but the message can be carried on. “I’m just a courier,” he said, “just echoing the struggles of other people who have gone through the whole process.” Woman files suit against ffibler I j From Staff Reports A former student is suing English Professor David Hibler and the NU Board of Regents for copy right infringement Rania K. Shilen filed a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court against Hibler, the professor who found himself in the public spotlight last week after sending potentially racist e-mail to more than 300 faculty members and students. Shilen’s attorney, Vince Powers, said his client’s mother found her daughter’s writings on a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Web site. The lawsuit contends the work was post ed without Shilen’s knowledge, and when she asked for it to be removed, it was not Shilen said the posted writings included humiliating details, although several former students said classes had the option to not post their work on the Internet. Freshman Heide Kneip, a for mer student of Hibler’s, said she and her classmates didn’t have to post their work on the Internet. If students chose to put their writings on the Internet, they had to sign a form authorizing Hibler to do so, Kneip said. Neither Hibler nor NU attorney Richard Wood would comment on the case. 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