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DEFEAT OF THE PROPOSED CRANDON MINE IN WISCONSIN

SITE ACQUISITION
• Mining Firm Gives $8m Back To Tribe; Gift Ends Crandon Mine Saga, May 2006
• New Crandon mine owners put permit process on hold, June. 2003
• Crandon mine company lays off staff but keeps
      mine permit process after state nixes purchase deal, Sept. 2002
• Articles/statements on public acquisition proposal, June-Sept. 2002
• Wolf River Watershed Protection Purchase proposed, June 2002
• Doyle calls for reopening Crandon mine site acquisition, Oct. 2002
• Technical changes delay mine permit process, 2000

CYANIDE BAN BILL
• Wisconsin bill to ban cyanide in mining being reintroduced, Jan. 2003.
• Cyanide ban in mining proposed
  
• Talking Points on Cyanide Ban in Mining
• Print leaflet to ban cyanide in mining
• Circulate petition against cyanide in mining
  
• Pass resolution for for cyanide ban bill
• Map of cyanide routes,   News Articles
• Background on Cyanide in Mining:WI, United States, Outside the U.S.
      Wisconsin legislative e-mails and toll-free numbers
• BACKGROUND
• Crandon mine: Issues, history, maps & photos.
  (Microsoft Powerpoint) presentation
  http://www.uwec.edu/grossmzc/Crandonmine.ppt (9.5M)
• The Wolf Watershed Educational Project
• Ten Points to Consider on the Crandon Mine
• Mining Speakers Bureau
• Q. & A. on the Crandon mine , 2001
• What You Should Know About the Crandon Mine, 1999
• Project impacts (1997): • Environmental • Socio-Economic • Cultural
• Chronology of Crandon mine struggle
• MINING MORATORIUM
• Citizens sue DNR over failure to enforce mining laws, June 2003
• DNR rejects rules, Dec. 1999
• Example mines submitted, June 2002
• Moratorium law passes, April 1998
• Background on Moratorium, 1998
• TRIBAL OPPOSITION
• Tribal sacred sites, wild rice in peril, June 2003
• Mole Lake delegation to So. Africa summit meets with BHP Billiton, Aug. 2002
• Mole Lake wins final victory in federal clean water case, June, 2002
• North American Indigenous Mining Summit, June 2002
• Leaflet on Crandon mine and Menominee Nation
• Menominee march draws 100, April 2000
• Potawatomi wins federal Clean Air status, Oct. 1999
• State efforts to limit WI tribal gaming,, 1997-2004
• Mole Lake statement to United Nations, Mar. 1997
        Mole Lake's Fran Van Zile speaks on mine (4 min. MP3)
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• OTHER LOCAL OPPOSITION
• Nashville township fights Crandon mine
      Updates: 1999-2000   Background: 1996-98
• Wise Use movement opposed, Aug. 1997
• ANTI-MINING MOVEMENT
• Northern WI Tourism Threatened by Mining (Poll Results), Sept. 2003
• Wisconsin's Rural Rebellion , 1998
• International mining journals assess Wisconsin opposition, 1997-2000
• Wisconsin's strong anti-mining movement, 1998
• Examples of Grassroots Achievements, 1997
• Committee of Labor Against Sulfide Pollution (CLASP), 1997-99
• COMPANY TRACK RECORDS
• BHP Billiton weighing future, Sept. 2002
• BHP Billiton to sell Crandon mine?, April 2001
• Billiton merges with Australian company BHP, March 2001
• South African miner Billiton buys Rio Algom, 2000
• Billiton track record   Letters to Billiton
• Bidding War for Rio Algom, Aug. 2000
• Rio Algom's Track Record, 1999
• Exxon pulls out - Crandon project continues, Feb. 1998
• Track Records of Exxon and Rio Algom, 1995

WOLF RIVER
• Waterways under attack, Oct. 2003
• Wolf River WI to be targeted by nuclear waste dump?
• Gambling with the Wolf: G.B. News-Chronicle section, April 2000
• Wolf River photos
            
• Wolf River #1 endangered U.S. river, Aug. 1999
• Crandon is no place for mine, Dec. 1998
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. opposes Crandon mine, Oct. 1997
• Wolf River poem , Artwork
• Wolf River watershed satellite photo
• PAST CAMPAIGNS
• Take Action on bills passed by the Wisconsin Senate, Sept. 2003
• Public Hearing on Environmental Deregulation Oct. 2003
• Wisconsin gubernatorial candidates' positions , 2002
• Native Voices for the Wolf River, Nov. 2001
• Student Mine Summit photos from Mole Lake, April 2001
• Citizens' Assembly of WI anti-corporate movement, March 2001
• People power - student tour/rally against corporate power, April 2000
• The Crandon mine in the presidential race, 2000
• Crandon mine rally in Madison, Oct. 1998
• Circle Tour for Mining Moratorium, July-Sept. 1997
• Upriver Tour & Rhinelander rally, Apr.-May 1996
• MORE INFORMATION
• Link to other Crandon mine web sites
• Español • Deutsche
• Link to MAPS below

• Ceremony at bear's den in path of transmission line, March 11 Feb. 28, 2006
• Energy Forum: designed by, & for, citizens of WI. POSTER -
     .html or .pdf, Sept. 2002
• Winona LaDuke on dams, transmission line, and mine
• Citizens' Assembly for WI anti-corporate movement, March 2001
• Background on proposed MN-WI transmission lines
      Updates: 2005, 2001 , 2000 , 1999
• Background on hydroelectric dams destroying Manitoba Cree rivers
      Updates:2003-2002, 2001 , 2000, 1999

• UPDATES
• Great Lakes fishing rights in Michigan , July 2001
• Mille Lacs Ojibwe (Chippewa) win in Supreme Court , Mar. 1999
• The Miseducation of Jesse Ventura Feb. 1999
• Waabanong Run from Lac du Flambeau to D.C., Nov. 1998
• Minnesota Witness Alerts Aug. 1997
• "Minnesota Seeks Calm in Spearing" Apr. 1997
  BACKGROUND
• MTN's Witness for Nonviolence Reports on harassment and violence during Ojibwe spearfishing seasons in 1990
  (96 MB) & 1991 (47 MB). (LONG downloads for pdfs!) : "1990" , "1991"
• 1837 Treaty Rights Basic Issues and Facts
• Ojibwe Treaties: Protecting Northern Wisconsin
• Link to "Treaty Rights in Minnesota" (GLIFWC)
• Link to "Treaty Rights: Understanding the Conflict" (U. of Minn.)
• "The Anti-Indian Movement"

• Red Lake Shootings, March 2005
• Tribes remember treaty signing; Native Americans feel sting of broken promises Sept.2004
• Ojibwe women walk to protect sacred water, April 2003
• Stop the Patenting of Wild Rice, Feb. 2002
• Michigan tribes oppose Nestle/Perrier springwater pumping, 2002
• Anishinabe Migration Project, June 2001
        The Migration Journey map .jpg (54Kb) / .gif (60Kb)
• Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa hold Project ELF hearings, Sept.-Oct., 2001
• Journey Around Lake Superior, July-Aug. 2000
• In Remembrance: Alexandra Smith
• Ojibwe mark Sandy Lake Tragedy, Dec. 2, 2000
• Lac du Flambeau wins tax case, Sept. 2000
• Lake Superior Youth Conference, Feb. 25-26, 2000
• Clean up the Coal Tar in Chequamegon Bay, July 1999
• Land and water grab ignores Ojibwe treaties Apr. 1999
• Seventh Generation Initiative Feb. 1999
• Native activists organize for Great Lakes Feb. 2000
• Protect The Earth Journey 5/29-6/ 27, 1998
•        Journey's End • Photo Album
• Protect Kakagon Sloughs, Bad River Res., WI
• White Pine Mine Dead MI May 1997
• Train Blockade on Bad River Reservation, WI,
         to Stop Acid Shipment to MI Mine, July-Aug. 1996
• Report From Keweenaw Bay UPDATE - Nov. 1997
• Protect Strawberry Island burial ground, Lac du Flambeau WI

GAMING
• The lottery, gaming and American Indians, Feb. 2004
  PERRIER
• Tribe opposes springwater pumping plan, Aug. 2000
  BADGER MUNITIONS
• Background Updates: Oct. 2003, Oct. 1998
  POWERS BLUFF / SKUNK HILL
• Wood Co.burial ground designated as historic site, April 2002
  HARDWOOD BOMBING RANGE
• Background Updates: Nov. 1997 Oct. 1996
  KICKAPOO VALLEY
• Ho-Chunk land returned, 2001
  MAPS
• Military projects on Wisconsin Ho-Chunk lands, jpg (113Kb) / gif (118Kb)
• Map of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) removals, 1832-74

• Menominee & trout fishers join to stop Polar spring pumping, Langlade Co. WI, 2004
• Background on treaty rights
• Leaflet on Crandon mine and Menominee Nation
• Update: Nov. 1998 court ruling
• Student & Community Alliance for the Wolf River, April 2000
• Menominee Nation satellite photo

MENDOTA MDEWAKANTON DAKOTA
• Background on proposed Hwy. 55 reroute in Minneapolis, 1998-99
• Updates 1999: Dec. raid Nov. July Jan.
• Updates 1998: Dec. raid Nov.
• "Who deems what is sacred?," 1999
  PRAIRIE ISLAND MDEWAKANTON DAKOTA
• Nuclear Waste Threatens Prairie Island, MN, 2003
  LA FRAMBOISE ISLAND
• Background on occupation in Missouri River, SD, May 1999
• Updates: 2001   Oct. 1999   June-Oct. 1999
  OGLALA LAKOTA
• Pine Ridge Stronghold Occupation, Aug. 2002
• Protests in White Clay, NE , July 1999
  ROSEBUD RESERVATION, SD
• link to: Camp Sovereignty fight to stop hog farm, May 2001

• Wisconsin bill for ban on"Indian" mascots and logos, March 2005
• Change "Squaw Bay" in Lake Monona, WI, Dec. 2004
• Marquette Changes Nickname , Jan, 28, 2006
• NCAA decision on collegiate mascots, Aug. 2005
• Petition on OutKast's stereotypes at Grammys, Feb. 2004
• Racist school play "Little Mary Sunshinein ViroquaWis., Nov. 2003
• Native American not on new Wisconsin quarter, Sept. 2003
• Ban "Squaw" Place Names in Wisconsin Dec. 2004
  support SB 24   Sign petition (pdf or html) to ban "squaw" place names in WI
• AZ Governor Wants to Name Peak for fallen Soldier, Apr. 12, 2003
• Native American Stereotypes
• Background on Indian mascots, logos & team names
• Native perspectives since September 11
• Support WI Senate Bill 25 to ban mascots, Feb. 2001
• Team name changed in Milton, WI, Jan. 2000
• Map of WI School Districts' use of Native team names
• University student occupations to stop cultural disrespect, 2000
• Readings on Cultural Respect

• Sacred Sites Run, 2006
• Indians drop protest at construction site where remains found, Sept. 2004
• Ho-Chunk/Potawatomi burial grounds desecrated in Wood Co., WI, Apr. 2001
• Protect Town of Dunn effigy mounds, Dane County WI
• Protect Strawberry Island burial ground, Lac du Flambeau WI
• Links on protecting Native burials

• Why should Wisconsin be concerned about Nuclear Waste? (PDF)
• No nuclear waste dumping on Goshute lands in Utah, Aprill 2006
• Wolf River WI to be targeted by nuclear waste dump?
• Nuclear Waste Threatens Prairie Island Res., MN
• Links: Nuclear waste in Indian Country

• Background on Lakota/Ojibwe political prisoner
• Updates: 2005  Leonard Peltier Moved to Indiana. 2004 • Mar. 1998
• Leonard Peltier on mining

• Support Gwich'in to protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Nov. 2005 . - (both links open in new window, close window to return.) Energy Bill Native Action Alert  
• Indian-bashing returns to Wisconsin, Dec. 29, 2003
• Governor McCallum demands $100,000,000 from Tribes, Oct. 2002
• Tribes oppose Gale Norton as Interior Secretary, Jan. 2001
• Gaming-environment connection, Dec. 1997
• Link to Is Gaming the "New Buffalo"?
• Link to Beloit Daily News reports on casinos
• Indigenous peoples & the WTO

• Six Nations standoff at Caledonia, Ontario, April 2006
• Roseau River blockade in Manitoba, June 2006
• Saugeen Ojibway fishing rights in Lake Huron, Jan. 2001
• Background on attacks on Mi'kmaq treaty fishing, 2000
      Updates, 2001. Chicago rally, 20th-22nd, 1st-19th, Aug.
• Military actions against First Nations, 1995
• Links to First Nations news

• Background on conflict in Chiapas
• Updates: 2002 • Zapatista Marcos speech in Mexico City, Mar. 2001
  • 2000 • 1999 • 1998
• Chiapas Media Project
• The Treaty of Teotihuacan

• Help to save the last true ecological nomadic indigenous in theHemisphere :
  the Nukak Maku, May 11, 2006
• Peruvians protest Billiton's Antamina mine, June 2001
• Ecuador attacks Indigenous protests, Indigenous
• Manifesto Mar. 2006
• Colombia War Updates
• Support U'wa fight against oil company , Apr. 2002
• Assassination of Ingrid Washinawatok, 2 others in Colombia, Feb. 1999
  • Articles/updates • Statements

NATIVE LANDS
• Some Existing or Proposed Threats to Native Lands
            In Western North America (70K)
• Treaty Lands and Reservations - Wis., Minn., Mich., Ont. (73K)
• Anishinabe Migration Journey .jpg (54Kb) / .gif (60Kb)
  WISCONSIN NATIVE LANDS
• Ojibwe Anishinaabe Nation (58K)
• Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) removals, 1832-74
• Ho-Chunk Nation and military projects, jpg (113Kb) / gif (118Kb)
• Wisconsin school districts' use of Native team names
• Link to: Wisconsin Native history maps
  WISCONSIN MINING
• Possible Nuclear Waste Sites & Routes .pdf (570KB)
                  ( download the free . pdf Reader from Adobe)
  
• Metallic sulfide mining in Wisconsin (81K)
• Location of proposed Crandon mine (41K)
• Local map of Crandon mine site (116K)
• Possible cyanide routes to mines (71K)
• Link to: Wisconsin mining resolutions map
  

• Save Our Clean Water t-shirt
• Crandon Mine Video
• Walleye Warriors: The Chippewa Treaty Rights Story
      by Rick Whaley and Walt Bresette
• The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations by Al Gedicks
• Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations, by Al Gedicks
• Link to Lighting the 7th Fire spearfishing documentary (Press Release)
• Link to Lighting the 7th Fire (Turtle Island) spearfishing documentary
• Link to Maawanji'iding (Gathering Together)
      an educational CD on Ojibwe histories & narratives
• Link to To Slay a Giant: the Fight to Protect the Wolf River from the Proposed Crandon Copper Mine by John J. Mutter, Jr.

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