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By Jack D. Forbes
News From Indian Country 5-08
 The current celebration of the Jamestown colony in Attan-Akamik (Virginia) is an example of the distortions of north American history found in the popular culture of the USA and Canada, and also in our schools’ educational curricula. The latter, at heart, is designed to firmly plant in every child’s mind the priority and dominance of the English heritage in north American development.
Jamestown was a “corporate” attempt to seize and invade an American territory solely for the purpose of profit-taking and imperial expansion. It was a completely illegal, immoral, and selfish undertaking by British government officials and entrepreneurs who had already been raiding the American coasts, from Newfoundland to the Caribbean (and even along the Pacific Coast of south, central, and north America. In these early raids many Americans (Indians) had been seized and carried back to Europe, including several seized along the Rappahannock River of Attan-Akamik.
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By Heather Clark
Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP) 5-08
A group of Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters, including four New Mexico superdelegates, has accused the state Democratic Party of breaking national and state party rules when it nominated a 12th superdelegate for New Mexico.
The group, led by former state party chairman John Wertheim, is calling for a runoff election by mail to determine the state’s final superdelegate.
The woman chosen has said she is undecided, but the Clinton group believes she is a Barack Obama supporter. They nominated their own candidate, who they think leans toward Clinton, on the floor at a state Central Committee meeting Saturday.
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By Frank Eltman
Central Islip, New York (AP) 5-08
The owner of an reservation smoke shop that prosecutors claim is a major supplier of black market cigarettes was convicted of racketeering conspiracy May 1, but acquitted of charges that he waged a campaign of arson and murder to protect his multimillion dollar business.
A federal jury on Long Island deliberated off and on for a month before delivering the split verdict in the case of Mastic cigarette dealer Rodney Morrison. The marathon trial began in November.
The jury did not convict Morrison of the most heinous charge, an allegation that he ordered the slaying of a one-time business protege who had opened a rival smoke shop. The victim, Sherwin Henry, 23, was shot to death on a Brooklyn rooftop in 2003.
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Mashantucket, Connecticut (AP) 5-08
Foxwoods Resort Casino says workers in five departments have voted against joining a union.
Some 300 workers in the engineers, facilities, projects and interior landscape departments were deciding whether to be represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers. Foxwoods officials say employees voted 215-67 on May 1 against organizing. The vote was overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
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Anchorage, Alaska (AP) 5-08
A conference was held in Anchorage to look at the issue of violence against Alaska Native women.
The panel, included some of the state’s most prominent Alaskans and top law enforcement officials. The members of the Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission included U.S. Attorney Nelson Cohen, state Attorney General Talis Colberg, and Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
The conference, called “Building Momentum,” was put on by the Alaska Native Justice Center with funding from the U.S. Justice Department, Office on Violence Against Women.
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