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Without a doubt, a positive online brand experience creates loyal customers. As several studies have discovered, the majority of consumers who engage with a brand in the digital space – whether by participating in a contest or by 'liking' a brand on Facebook – tend to not only purchase the products, but also make recommendations to their friends and family. Click below for big-ass version.
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Six Ways to Attract a Fanatical Brand Following
In the age of social everything, word-of-mouth love from your customers is the best marketing you can ask for. Creating that kind of authentic, organic love between customers and brand can feel like a complex chemistry problem, but some companies are just.so.good.at it. You know who we mean—those companies whose customers rave about them, seek them out on social networks, have their back when something goes wrong, and (most importantly) turn to them for all their purchase needs.
So how do you create the kind of fanatical brand following that makes Apple fans blush? We studied the ways of some of our favorite brands to understand the answer to that question. Check out what we learned in the infographic:
Announcing the 2013 Love Your Customers Award Winners
It wouldn't be a Get Satisfaction party without goodie bags, some surprises, and recognition of the people we love the most. No, not Rihanna…our Customers! Part of our commitment this this fabulous group of people is that we want to empower them with all the tools, best practices, and capabilities to achieve success supporting and connecting with their customers….and we want to shower them with praise when they do.
When we first started planning our Customer Success Summit, it was a no brainer that customer awards would be in the mix. We decided to call them the Love Your Customers Awards, because not only do we love ours, but they love their customers as well.
The Love Your Customer Awards are a fun way for our team to say thank you to all of our amazing customers. Every day we're blown away by all of your creativity, patience, and passion, and so this is our way to recognize a few of you. So, without further ado, the 2013 Love Your Customer Awards winners (drum roll please):
The Heart of a Champion Award
This award was created to recognize a customer that has an amazing Champions program. A lot of our customers have really excellent Champions programs that showcase their most knowledgeable, passionate, helpful users, but the award had to go to PREZI once we learned that they've actually hired a few of their Champs to join their support team. That's a really special type of awesome.
The Best Dressed Award
This award is meant to recognize a customer that has done an outstanding job customizing their community. We've seen a lot of really excellent and creative customizations over the last year, but the Best Dressed Award goes to KOODO for the way they've incorporated their company's culture into their community, and for the way they've integrated Badgeville's gamification platform. With a community so awesomely customized to meet their customers' needs, it's no wonder they're Canada's most recommended mobile service.
Chatty Cathy Award
This award affectionately known as Chatty Cathy goes to a customer whose community has just been ROCKING with activity. The CROWDFLOWER community is consistently one of the most active communities month after month… in fact, they had over 11,000 posts in their community last month alone. Congratulations Crowdflower!
The Widget Wizard Award
We're pretty big fans of user generated content, and we love it when we see our customers get just as excited about it as we do. The Widget Wizard Award goes to a customer that has done a stellar job implementing our Engage widgets and really leverages UGC. BLACKBAUD has several widgets placed throughout their help pages and is religious in curating content so that only the most important and relevant pieces show up.
The Narnia Closet Award
Much like the Wardrobe in CS Lewis' famed fairy tale, a well-thought out set of entry points can take users on a magical customer experience journey. The Narnia Closet Award recognizes the creativity around community entry points… the paths that customers take to find their way into a community, whether it be through widgets, the facebook application, or through custom web experiences. We're very excited to present SPS COMMERCE with our Narnia Closet Award for their creative entry points.
The Company-Customer Pact Award
As many of you know, the Company-Customer Pact was developed by our founders in effort to help positively shift the way companies and customers interact with one another. It's a philosophy that's deeply rooted in the culture of Get Satisfaction and one that we love to see expressed by our customers in their communities. This year, the Company-Customer Pact Award goes to inMusic Brands for their daily commitment to their customers and users. They run 9 different communities with passionate employees who go above and beyond to help their customers in the music industry. Their conversations are frank and transparent, yet empathetic. They're a great example of what our founders had in mind when they created the pact.
Get Satisfaction Community Champions Awards
These next 2 awards are actually recognizing two specific Champions in our community. I'm very grateful for them and for their passion toward our community and product. The first award we'd like to give is our Champion Rookie of the Year and it goes to KRISTEN GASTALDO of BLACKBAUD. Kristen became a Champ last fall and has done an awesome job answering the questions in our community along with managing her own community. She's even authored a guest blog post for us. We're really grateful for her help and support and are excited to keep working with her. Thank you Kristen!
Champion Lifetime Achievement Award
The second award we'd like to give is our Champion Lifetime Achievement Award and it goes to BOB JONES. Bob, more commonly known in our community as AussieBob has been a Champ for several years now and is truly amazing. He's always there to help knock out spam and answer questions in the community when our team is out of the office… I definitely rest easier during evenings and weekends knowing that he helps out. I sincerely hope that everyone has a Champ like him in their community!
Customer Rookie of the Year
The Customer Success team is in charge of onboarding all of our new customers and I can't tell you how much we love it when a new customer comes in and totally knocks our socks off. This year, our Customer Rookie of the Year award goes to CITRIX. Citrix launched 4 communities with us last year and has completely embraced community within their corporate ecosystem. They've got beautiful customizations and entry points, and have built up a great resource for their customers. Congratulations Citrix!
Customer Lifetime Achievement Award
This award has to our friends over at TECHSMITH. TechSmith has been a longtime customer with a great track record of community success. They've got an incredibly successful community that's used predominantly by their product and development teams to gather customer feedback about their various software products. We've really enjoyed working with the TechSmith team over the last 5 years and are really looking forward forward to the next 5! Congratulations TechSmith!
That's all we have for you this year. Keep rocking building awesome communities, and maybe next year you'll be recognized in the Love Your Customer Awards!
Get Satisfaction Customer Summit: People + Knowledge + Community = Success
Every once in a while, a company hits a milestone that truly makes a CEO stand back and smile. Our Customer Success Summit on May 2nd was one of those days.
We spent the day with more than 150 of our customers and partners listening, learning, and sharing (essentially a live version of a customer community). Never before have we heard from so many customers about their experiences with Get Satisfaction—our product, processes, and our team.
It was exhilarating to learn about the impact they are seeing using our online community platform. Customers like SPS Commerce, Applegate, Kenandy, and Citrix shared the best practices they've developed in building community that both strengthens their relationships with their customers as well as with their internal stakeholders.
It was a day of the familiar (our team presented all the practical information we've learned through six years and 70,000 communities, and I announced our new Dummies book, which sums it all up in one easy-to-consume guide) and the unexpected (our photo booth with throne and props evoked some hilarious responses).
Product innovation was a key theme of the day. We were all excited (and proud) to get a preview of our new capabilities from our CTO, David Rowley. As a result of his presentation, even more new product ideas were generated from our customers. The collaboration was fun to be part of.
IDC analyst, Michael Fauscette, gave us all an education in why customer community is an essential piece of any customer experience strategy. He shared how a company can leverage online community to build true engagement at every stage in the customer life cycle.
Many attendees were pleasantly surprised to learn how community can break down business silos to foster teamwork within a company. For example, attendees loved the presentation on how community teams can bring product and development teams into the community to get valuable product feedback, conduct mini focus groups, beta testing, and more.
Although many of our customers use Get Satisfaction for support, two marketing executives—Chris Selland, VP of Marketing at HP Vertica, and Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CMO of Mindjet—talked about how community is helping them create a cultural shift both inside their organizations and with their customers. The vision these executives have for community as a guiding force to connect more closely with their customers whenever and wherever made us all proud.
There was also a wealth of information for those working with community on a more day-to-day basis—from our own Senior Community Manager, Caty Kobe, sharing her insider knowledge about the skills, tools, and best practices for managing a thriving community, to industry veteran, Stephen Mann, teaching us how to use community to handle thousands of inquiries through self-service and peer-to-peer support.
From the inception of our product six years ago, Get Satisfaction has been central to helping companies both large and small build trust-based, long-lasting relationships with their customers. It was extremely gratifying to hear so many examples of how companies are using community to build loyal customer relationships that translate to explicit business value as well. The voice of the customer has never been louder or more accessible, and we're so honored to be trusted by so many great companies to be the medium for that voice.
So please keep the conversation going and join us in our Get Satisfaction Community in topics we have created to continue the dialog:
How do you measure the value of community?
How can you optimize self-service support with community?
How can you leverage the voice of the customer as marketing content?
Top Tech Support Professionals Share Insight and New Tools at TSW
Last week about 800 of these support professionals gathered at the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) TSW Conference to discuss the changes going on in the industry, and the trends, tools, and best practices to help you navigate the new landscape. Get Satisfaction was a sponsor at this event, and we relished the opportunity to get a better sense of the concerns and challenges many support teams are facing, and the solutions they're using to solve them.
There were some key themes that emerged over and over again—social technologies (no, that's not the same things as addressing support issues in 140 characters or less), personalization, data fragmentation, self-service support, and mobile. These trends are the driving force behind many innovative, exciting new solutions, and it was great to connect with others who get as excited about them as we do.
TSIA is a leading force in the service and support industry, and their team were the backbone of our conference experience providing us with relevant data, context, and guidance to make sense of what we were learning. We found the results of John Ragsdale's The State of Social Support 2013 survey particularly interesting—for example, in 2013, 80% of survey respondents will be investing in customer communities as a way to provide better social support. However, 77% of respondents are not seeing or do not know how to measure the ROI they're seeing. Wow. Clearly there's a disconnect there.
The how-to of measuring the ROI of community and social support in general is a question we get a lot around here at Get Satisfaction, which is why we've been working with industry thought leaders and analysts to identify just how much these technologies are saving companies—through ticket deflection, self-service, and peer-to-peer support. We now offer an ROI calculator that can help you measure the results you're seeing. (Reach out to us directly at firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to put it to work to see how much you are or could be saving).
We brought one of our favorite customers, Zoli Radnai, Community Support Team Lead at Prezi, to share a beautiful Prezi presentation about how they're realizing and measuring the ROI of their community (anywhere from $1.2 million per year, all the way up to $7.2 million per year, depending on how conservatively or optimistically you measure call deflection).
Between the aesthetically awesome presentation of the information (haven't heard of Prezi? Check them out here), the impressive savings, and the audience response to both….let's just say it was a tech nerd's breed of exhilarating.
There were other highlights as well—our VP of Product Marketing, Scott Hirsch, demoed our product (specifically our powerful SEO capabilities, responsive design for any size screen, and social interaction model) at the TSIA Service Revolutions Vision Awards on Wednesday. The Service Revolutions Vision Awards recognize the latest innovations in technology services, so we were extremely pleased and honored to be named the winner of the commercial category. This win was based on real-time audience votes, which made the victory that much sweeter.
What did we take away from all this? Well, for starters, we were pleased to hear that our focus on bringing community everywhere your customers are is on target with what support agents are looking for.
It was also validating to hear the focus that everyone was putting on community. In the various sessions we heard and presented at, the message that this is the year where community moves from early adoption to mainstream support necessity was vocalized again and again. Time will tell if that's true, but it's hard to deny the energy that statement had behind it (and how exciting that was for us!).
And we also learned some important information about the Giants and the latest Game of Thrones episode. Who would've thought? ;)
Creating a Thriving Community: So Easy a Dummy Can Do It!
If you were building a customer community a few years ago, you may have been successful accomplishing your goals, but there weren't a ton of resources and knowledge available to help guide you along the way.
Thankfully, that is no longer the case. Today there are abundant resources—blogs, thought leaders, webcasts, etc—available to help you build a community, drive participation and engagement, and measure the business value.
Yesterday we hosted our first Get Satisfaction Customer Success Summit, which was geared towards providing our customers with the skills, tools, and know how to build thriving, valuable communities. This event was the culmination of six years and 73,000 communities of learned knowledge. It was a lot to cram into one day, but it felt great to share everything we've learned with our customers (Couldn't make it? Stay tuned for the wrap up post next week).
At the conference we launched our CEO, Wendy Lea's, new book—Customer Communities for Dummies. This book is a step-by-step guide to building an active community, leveraging it for company-wide business value, and building better relationships with your customers online. We know that community managers are smart, charismatic, professionals (in other words, not at all Dummies), but the book is a great resource to guide those who manage communities or are thinking about incorporating one into your customer experience strategy.
We want as many people as possible to have access to the learned knowledge in this book, so we're giving away the eBook for free. Want to win a hard copy singed by our fabulous CEO, Wendy Lea? Help us spread the word by using the share buttons on this blog or on the eBook download site using the hashtag #GetSuccess. We'll send the top 10 sharers a free, signed copy each week.
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A Proper Understanding of Crossover Vehicles and Their Main Attributes
"Crossover" is a term that has generated some confusion among drivers, making them wonder what crossover vehicles actually are, especially with the increased similarity between these and SUVs. While these vehicles have the bodies of the SUVs or minivans, what makes them "crossover" is the car chassis they are built on.
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The economical aspect is, of course, a factor that weighs a lot in a driver's decision regarding what type of car he or she should buy. Crossover vehicles ensure improved gas mileage, these cars being designed with operational efficiency in mind. It is in fact a normal consequence of the chassis being light, this eliminating the surplus of weight that the car has to carry.
Comfort, efficiency, improved handling and spacious interior are the features that separate a crossover car form any other type of car. A proper understanding of the features of these automobiles and the benefits they focus on is offered by the context in which they appeared on the market in 2007 – in the strenuous environment caused by the substantial rises in the price of gas. This is when crossover vehicles invaded the market and people started to see them as the solution they were looking for. This made the crossover gain an important 16% increase in sales the same year, while SUVs experienced a major decline.
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Thanks for the prompt and comprehensive reply Dazzler. I'll limit it more to a general discussion about Aikido nationally, as you have covered local promotion very well, and hopefully a debate about national coverage will encourage others to get involved.
The problem is when I talk to people about what I study, more often than not I get the response "What's Aikido?". I would imagine that Karateka and jodoka do not have a similar problem when discussing what they study.
So the question is really, whether people think that there is a problem exposing Aikido to those who have no prior knowledge of it?
Obviously the BAB site, club sites, and the national courses etc. all help communication between Aikidoka, but unless you type 'Aikido' into Google you are unlikely to come across these. If you type 'Martial Arts' then you are swamped with the more common martial arts. I wonder whether the problem is the same in other countries such as France where Aikido appears to enjoy more popularity, and if not what are they doing differently. I appreciate your comment Dazzler about those searching for Aikido being our target audience, but I started by chance having read a local advert. I was not searching for aikido, and having studied for 10 years now would not change it. I'm sure there's plenty of others like me out there waiting for it to be introduced to them.
( On a side note, I read somewhere there were 20,000 Aikido practioners who are members of the BAB. Where are they all? It appears that only 200 people are registered on the forum and able to comment on the various topics)
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Sure, if you think its what people would read.
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Brilliant Stuff as normal Daren
Maybe this could be made into a full article as part of the Aikido Times.
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Hi Barry
Seems to me you have 2 separate goals. Growth of your club and general promotion of Aikido.
With respect to the 1st, you say you are only found by those looking specifically for Aikido. Congratulations !! that is your audience that will give you most success, if they are looking for cage fighting then you are unlikely to satisfy this need and your recruitement efforts will be wasted.
Think of YOUR aikido as a product...what are the characteristics of your Aikido? ...looking just at this weekends BAB course there were 5 totally different types of Aikido on display...Paul Bonnetts Shodokan giving the fun of competition and the vigorous work out that comes with it, Terry Ezras flowing Aikido with its base in connection, centering and adherance to yin & yang, Chris Mooneys very traditional and quite serious approach, Paul Barkers devastating nishio marriage of serious striking with crip technique and Frank Burlinghams modest,self-depracating fun approach.
All very different. So a general promotion of Aikido might not help overly if you get students looking for the style of Sensei X from Sensei Y.
So for me start by defining what your Aikido represents? When you do this then you know that this is what you are selling. We for instance, are very organised, we have a good structure, effective promotion strategy for students, our Aikido can be practical but we aren't 'hard'...we can work with Ki to a degree but not to the level of say the local Ki Aikido clubs.
But we know what our strenghts are - and these are what we portray whan new students arrive. If what we can do matches their requirements - then they stay.
Having defined what you have - make a commitment to excellence. We can't all be the best - but you can aim to be the best that you can. If you as an instructor have genuine enthusiasm and the desire to make improvements. ......Others will follow.
Where the improvements come from is up to you. Do you have a technical leader? do you cross train? do you follow Aikiweb & Aikijournal to stay abreast of wider activities in the world of Aikido.?
Any of these can augment what you have and energise your Aikido classes. You can get a new approach, new material, anything really...which keeps your classes constantly interesting.
Die hards will train no matter what you do..but newbies...and new Dan grades...need targets, changes and suchlike to keep them interested.
On a local level - how is your Aikido perceived ? fluffy bunny softy stuff...or do you have some respect from local martial arts community. I like to think we have a good rep - we may not hold the crown as the toughest guys in town , the boxers/mma guys can wear that ...but we are seen as very professional, very committed to the art and our students and as a result there is good interchange of students between us and local clubs. If they have someone that clearly wants to do Aikido ...we are recommended because our approach is honest and respectable. Likewise if we get someone that wants to compete or cagefight and its a good option for them we'll send them on their way.
All good for enabling our Aikido to 'compete' in the marketplace of those that are thinking of training in Martial Arts.
We've gained this rep through demo's, cross training and multi art seminars. As a result our students can hold their heads up in any martial arts community meetings locally.
With respect to advertising - our people are our best advert. We don't tolerate negative behaviour and the resulting enthusiasm from all members continues to pull people in. With enthusiatic people anything can generate interest. * we lost our dojo and moved to a temporary home - result - a banding together & team spirit to make the new home a success = More members.
* we had an instructor leave and take some students with him - result - more bonding of the remainder into a stronger, more effective team = which in time has resulted in more members
* We did a demo last year (its on BAB website)...we involved lots of members and the morale of the dojo went through the roof !
* We got involved with BAB coaching courses - Result = energised teachers following best practice and falling over themselves with their keeness to deliver Aikido ...more student retention !!
So everything should be considered a marketing opportunity.
If you have honest, enthusiastic, hardworking teachers and students...you will succeed. If you aren't yet the best, but aspire to be the best you can succeed . People will come with you if you show a desire to progress
This isn't me viewing things with rose tinted glasses ...this is what I'm seeing week in week out.
Not down to any leaflets, videos or newspaper adverts. Its down to a team of people who love Aikido and simply say lets be the best that we can be.
If all clubs take this approach, National marketing will take care of itself.
Good luck with your growth.
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Hi Barry
We have some Media Officers now in the BAB, who are trying to find suitable ways of promoting in a national way, maybe you should contact them on firstname.lastname@example.com.
From my own experince I ONLY advertise on the web. I have an association website and use the google places and add my club locations there so if you put in 'Aikido Chingford' you will find my clubs.
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Does anyone have any ideas for promoting Aikido. I teach at a small club and have found it hard to encourage new students as Aikido seems to be 'relatively' unheard of by the masses. As a result it seems that only those looking specifically for aikido find out about us. Promoting by flyers and local papers is fine but theres only so much information you can put in and it only targets a select few. I was thinking more about ideas for promoting it nationally.
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When my daughter was three she walked up to me and said, "I know where you keep your fire." My wife and I were puzzled - and a little disturbed . . . Fire? Turns out she was talking about the long red lighter we use to start the grill. It was hidden on the top shelf in the kitchen cabinet, behind all of our bills. She was two feet tall. We found a new hiding spot for our "fire."
I came home from work the other day to find my wife working in the garden, my daughter playing outside with her friends and my son playing with his NintendoDS under his covers in his bedroom. "It's nice out - why don't you go outside and play." "No, I wanna play my DS," he said. "Put it away and get outside," I told him. "Fine," he grumbled back as he stomped into the kitchen, dragged a chair across the room to the fridge, climbed up both and buried his DS way into the bottom of the towel basket that sits on top of the fridge. "What are you doing?" I asked him. "Mom hid it there because I was naughty."
My grandfather always kept a gun in the house - in his bedroom closet behind Grandma's red winter coat. I knew where the bullets for that rifle were too - in a discarded checking account box in his underwear drawer . . . I came across these when I was about 8 years old. What was I doing? I was snooping around for Christmas presents - a pretty normal thing for a kid to do I think. Grandpa had no idea that I knew where he kept that weapon.
So if you own a gun and think that your children either don't know about it, or don't know where it is or how to get at it - you are likely very wrong.
A few facts about guns, kids and America:
- Americans own more than 200 million firearms
- 35 percent of homes contain at least one gun
- 1.7 million children live in homes with loaded and unlocked guns
- 39 percent of kids knew where their parents' guns were stored
- 22 percent said that they had handled the weapons despite adults' warnings to stay away.
- More than 500 children die annually from accidental gunshots
- 88 out of every 100 gun-owners in the world are American
- The US has 8 times the gun fatality rate of any other economically-comparable country in the world.
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My grandpa, an army veteran, instilled in me an attitude of fear and apprehension - not towards other people, but of that rifle. "I don't ever want to see you handling any guns - ever . . . do you understand? You could accidentally shoot somebody. When you're old enough I'll teach you how to use one," Grandpa had told me.
Luckily for me the older I got, the more my interest in guns waned. By the time I was old enough to be taught how to handle a gun I was more interested in firing fastballs past opposing hitters than firing guns at animals or targets.
These little anecdotes were easy to share, but there is another piece of my life that is much more personal - one that only my closest family members and friends know all the details of. Out of respect for the people involved, I won't share much, but I will tell you that as someone who has seen first-hand what a gun can do to a human body, as someone who has checked another human being for a pulse and not found one, as someone who has found a shooting victim still alive and suffering and as someone who has tried to comfort that victim - I want NOTHING to do with guns.
You won't find a gun, real or fake, anywhere in my home. This is not an invitation to come steal my TV, but my lack of gun-ownership is something that I am proud of. If you want to steal my TV, take it - it is not worth the loss of a human life, yours or mine. Personally, I think guns are for cowards. Guns are for people who live in fear and paranoia. I don't want to live like that. And assault weapons are for the military and police only, not my neighborhood block watch guy.
I have neighbors right in my safe little suburban Village of Greendale that drive around with a bumper sticker that reads, "You keep the change, I'll keep my guns, my money and my freedom." I understand about the money part, but the fact that you think owning a gun is freedom is disturbing. The fact that you think you have to walk around Pick N' Save with a holster containing a concealed weapon does not sound like "freedom" to me, it sounds like paranoia. My idea of freedom is walking around in flip flops and swimming trunks containing a swimming pool pass in my pocket and nothing else sounds like freedom to me.
As a country, the prevailing attitude is that the best mode of self-defense against ignorant, senseless acts of violence is to arm ourselves to the teeth . . . When the best defense against ignorance and violence is an educated, tolerant and accepting society.
The recent shooting in Oak Creek was the end product of a life fueled by ignorance and bigotry. The suspect, who was being monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center for his involvement with hate groups, and who was kicked out of the army, was able to waltz into a local West Allis store and buy a semi-automatic killing machine. The owner of The Shooters Shop told the news, "He seemed normal." If a skinhead covered in Neo-Nazi tattoos who wants to buy a killing machine seems normal, then our new normal is quite scary.
The suspect in the Colorado movie theatre shootings placed a $306 internet order for a combat vest, magazine holders and a knife, and payed extra for expedited two-day shipping to his apartment just days before his rampage - and this was AFTER buying thousands of rounds of ammunition online for his legally purchased automatic weapon . . . and nobody, not even the FBI noticed.
In a country where 200 million handguns float around freely, but only 131 million votes were cast during the last Presidential election, something has to change.
Something is wrong when politicians create laws making it is easier to purchase an automatic assault weapon and 1,000 rounds of ammunition off the web simply because you have a current driver's license, then turn around and write legislation that makes it impossible to walk into a polling place and cast your ballot without the proper ID.
Voting and gun-ownership are both constitutional rights, but we seem to value bearing arms over casting ballots.
I do not disagree with the fact that it is our constitutional right to bear arms - or do I?
Let's look at the actual text of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution as ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
I understand this amendment as the right to keep a weapon in order to be called to join the all volunteer militia. We had no real organized army with a stockpile of weapons during the 1780's. We were also still fighting the British, Native Americans and protecting our back 40. It was a wild frontier and a new nation. It was a different time. Our founding fathers could have never imagined automatic weapons that spewed hundreds of rounds in minutes.
I understand and respect the right to own a gun for hunting and even for defense, but NEVER an automatic weapon - which is only good for hunting a mass of people.
But even owning a single gun shows that you have made yourself and your family more susceptible to gun violence, not peace. The most recent data collected by Gallop and the Pew Research Center show that gun owners have 2.7 times the homicide rate and 4.8 times the suicide rate of non gun-owners.
But despite all of these pesky little things known as facts, I still do not advocate taking away anyone's guns, but I do advocate banning the sale of any more automatic weapons, deeper background checks and stricter testing, written and physical before the purchase of any gun can be complete.
Even conservative hero and gun rights activist Ronald Reagan went against the powerful NRA and put his support behind the Brady Bill in the 80's, clearing the way for other conservatives to vote for the bill that restricted gun-ownership.
It should not take an assassination attempt of a conservative President however to force Republicans to stand up to the NRA, and it should not take another mass shooting with a legally-purchased weapon for the Democrats to stop their knee-shaking and propose a bill that eliminates the sale of all automatic weapons and requires written, mental and physical testing in order to obtain a gun permit.
I have to take a written and a physical test to obtain a driver's license because if used incorrectly an automobile can kill someone - so why not put the same requirements on the ultimate killing machines, guns?
It will take a bold and brave individual to author such a bill or proposal either at the state or national level. My local State Rep. Jeff Stone of Greendale is not that kind of person. I recently spoke to him and asked if he would make such a proposal - and his answer . . . "That's not my place."
News Flash: You are a law-maker, so it is your place! If I were not busy working two jobs, raising a young family, coaching sports and chauffeuring my daughter around, I would give you a run for your money (though you've got a ton more) as someone who actually represents the people and the interests of your district Jeff Stone, but until that time comes we are stuck with "law-makers" who would rather make it more difficult to cast your ballot than to buy an automatic killing machine.
Some say it is too soon after these tragic shootings to talk about changing our gun laws, but it could be our only time to get it right.
Lyle Ruble
7:01 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
@Jason Patzfahl...One correction, neither Holmes or Page used automatic weapons, they were both semi-automatic.
Jason J
8:02 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
I understand your point, yet you really blew your whole post and look kinda silly because there is a HUGE difference between a semi-automatic weapon and a automatic weapon. Automatic weapons are currently banned and the only way you can legally own a automatic weapon is by jumping through several federal hoops, and even then you can only purchase one that was in the US prior to 1986 (I believe) hence why If you want one you will pay upwards of $10,000 or more.
Jason Patzfahl
8:44 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
Or you could just go to a gunshow . . . or craigslist.
9:41 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
the key statement you made is legally, you can change them over for a few dollars and the kits are easy to get. you know that......
Richard Head
6:21 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
Mr. Patzahl - a firearm stands as the last line of protection between a citizen and a murderous government. It maintains the balance of fear. LET THE GOVERNMENT DISARM FIRST!
Some of the Largest Mass-Murderers of history:
"Mass murder may be committed by individuals or organizations. Mass murder may also be defined as the intentional and indiscriminate murder of a large number of people by government agents.
The largest mass killings in history have been attempts to exterminate entire groups or communities of people, often on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Some of these mass murders have been found to be genocides and others to be crimes against humanity, but often such crimes have led to few or no convictions of any type."
YOU would deprive these people of the means of self-defense against a rogue State, while arguing that the State should have Terror Drones, Missiles, Cluster bombs, Automatic Weapons, Armored Vehicles, Tanks, Planes, Napalm, and "Daisy Cutters".
Political mass murder or the killing of a particular political group within a country, such as the White and Red Terrors, Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, Mao Zedong's Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, Pol Pot's Killing Fields, massacres at the partition of India, or the Hama, Jallianwala Bagh, Tlatelolco massacres, mass executions of civilians in Spanish cities commited by the fascist forces during the Spanish Civil war and the mass killing of communists by Suharto's New Order.
9:14 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
our federal government genocide of the American Indian over the years since the founding of our country. most of it done for the growth of businesses to take what we wanted. also to change a weapon from semi auto to fully auto cost only a few hundred dollars if done illegally
Richard Head
6:21 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
Deliberate massacres of captives during wartime by a state's military forces, such as these committed by the Empire of Japan, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II: the Nanjing Massacre, the Katyn Forest Massacre of Polish citizens in 1940 and the massacres of political prisoners after the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the Three Alls Policy and the massacre of Soviet Jews at Babi Yar.
Mass killing of civilians during total war, especially via strategic bombing, such as the Bombing of Chongqing, Bombing of Tokyo, the Blitz, the bombing of Dresden and Hamburg, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[3]
Actions in which the state caused the death of large numbers of people, which political scientist R. J. Rummel calls "democide", which, in addition to the cases above, may include man-made disasters caused by the state, such as the Holodomor in the Soviet Union,[4] and the disastrous effects of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
Richard Head
6:35 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
You are aware that "America's Greatest President" (sic), Franklin Roosevelt, had food supplies deliberately destroyed while purposely starving Americans to Death during the depression? - You know - "OUR LITTLE SECRET" *WINK* *WINK*
"Now, 72 years later, those census reports — the details of some 132 million American lives — will be made public for the first time starting April 2, at the National Archives' special site: 1940census.archives.gov.
Interest is always high when census records are finally declassified because the pages are gold for genealogists, researchers and anyone interested in tracing their family tree, which has become immeasurably easier in recent years with the advent of searchable online databases and genealogy sites."
WHY was the Census classified? To hide the deaths of millions of Americans who were deliberately starved by Franklin Roosevelt.
The researcher, Boris Borisov, in his article titled "The American Famine" estimated the victims of the financial crisis in the US at over seven million people. The researcher also directly compared the US events of 1932-1933 with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during 1932-1933.
In the article, Borisov used the official data of the US Census Bureau. Having revised the number of the US population, birth and date rates, immigration and emigration, the researcher came to conclusion that the United States lost over seven million people during the famine of 1932-1933.
Richard Head
6:36 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
"According to the US statistics, the US lost not less than 8 million 553 thousand people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly between 1930-1931: the indices drop and stay on the same level for ten years. There can no explanation to this phenomenon found in the extensive text of the report by the US Department of Commerce "Statistical Abstract of the United States," the author wrote.
Richard Head
6:41 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
Let us look at how the American Government murdered innocent miners:
The Battle of Blair Mountain:
The battle marked the first time U.S. troops were ordered to bomb civilians. Federal troops squared off against citizen miners, many themselves veterans hardened from recent service in WW I.
The union leader Bill Blizzard eventually surrendered his army in order to avoid further civilian casualties. Blizzard was acquitted in court of insurrection. Future UMW & CIO leader John L. Lewis fought alongside Blizzard at the Battle of Blair Mountain and succeeded in getting recognition for the union 14 years later in southern West Virginia.
he miners were opposed by a well-armed contingent of mine guards and State Police with rifles and machine guns. These would eventually be joined by 2,000 regular Army troops armed with airplanes, bombs, and poison gas. The two forces met at Blair Mountain, in Logan County, along the ridge line.
The battle ended after approximately one million rounds were fired,[3] and the United States Army intervened by presidential order.
You want to end mass- murder? Take the guns away from the CORPORATE Governments of the world - FIRST!
Independent Mind
3:26 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
It's people like you Mr. Head, not our government, that scare the hell out of me. Your rantings sound like the words of the next Timothy McVeigh.
Jason Patzfahl
8:49 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
While I freely admit that as a non-gun owner I do not quite understand the difference between a semi-automatic and a fully automatic weapon, I do understand that they are both designed to kill quite quickly, not to hunt.
I will also admit that these "men" who killed innocent people might very well have purchased guns illegally even if all guns were banned, but if they had to attempt their acts of cowardice with old revolvers bought off the street, I am sure we can all agree that the carnage would have been much, much less, if even at all.
It is time to make gun ownership more restrictive. . . and gun owners more responsible.
9:34 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
great post, wrong state to do it in. I have had that same 2nd amendment discussion (argument) with many a gun owner (NRA member). look I don't want to stop hunters I prefer they shoot that deer so I don't hit it with my car. and most hunters I talk to agree that they don't need AK-47 or AR 15, so why do we allow them to be sold to the public? a few dollars later they can be fully auto and it can be done illegally. and don't give me that bull about gun collecting for the history, that's for the museums that way we can all enjoy them. not just you sitting in your bomb shelter waiting for the world to go over the edge. heck remember those bank robbers that had that shoot out with the cops. I think all we are asking is DONT MAKE IT SO EASY.
2:21 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
I use semi-automatic guns for both hunting and sport shooting. My guns have never killed or injured anyone.
Jason, If you don't understand the subject, why do you blog about it? Your emotional stories and unsupported conclusions would be best kept to yourself.
9:37 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
I have always hunted with a bolt action, maybe something I learned as a youngster in the Marines, 1 shot 1 kill. If you can't shoot worth a lick, I guess you need a semi auto. Do you guys need a semi auto bow too? Back in the eighties when I bought a mini 14 to play with(take to the range and shoot), it was pretty simple to convert. Never saw the need and it really wasn't a decent hunting rifle so I just kept the weapon around for nostalgic reasons.
9:54 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
Try prairie dog shooting at 400 to 800 yards with your bolt action, one shot and you get to spend 5 minutes reacquiring the target. Sparky, I have won my share of shooting competitions and I would be happy to put my money where my mouth is. I'll even use my mini 14.
12:43 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Is that anything like plinking rats and racoons at the dump with a .22 and a flashlight?
10:32 am on Sunday, August 12, 2012
You don't need to own a gun Jason . Us law biding citizens will protect the nerds too. Because the person hell bent on killing people doesnt care about the law. That's the entire point. Chicago has all those Laws.....Its the Murder capital of the country.
Many will say that it is mainly bad guys killing bad guys. Which has some truth to it . But the plain fact is there will always be bad guys with guns that don't give a rats ass about the law on restricting guns. Once again these shootings when they do ago are certainly unfortunate, but the only real defense to them is Armed force . Whether it was Fort Hood, Colorado batman shooting or the temple. A Legal Conceal Carry resident would of been able to respond to the defense of all. My basic view is I will not trust the criminal to do right by weapons........and the criminals best benefit is to give them a free hand and punish everyone else by not ever having a response.
As to specific gun law ideas. Lawmakers currently are not on board in either party in any significant numbers so its irrelevant.
11:10 am on Monday, August 13, 2012
Geldings like Jason should be thanking folks like me for having the courage to conceal carry to protect him and his family.
oak creek resident
1:43 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
Jason talks alot about ignorance, but his ignorance on guns and their owners is truly frightening.... yet expected for a man who wears women's eyewear.
2:13 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
A few facts for consideration:
There are almost as many firearms in the U.S. as there are cars.
Car Accidents: Kill 260,000 children a year and injure about 10 million children. They are the leading cause of death among children and a leading cause of child disability.
Per Jason:
"More than 500 children die annually from accidental gunshots"
"I have to take a written and a physical test to obtain a driver's license because if used incorrectly an automobile can kill someone - so why not put the same requirements on the ultimate killing machines, guns?"
I think Jason and his grandpa have the wrong agenda.
jason pantywaist
9:02 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
what kind of grown man calls his grandfather, 'grandpa"?
11:18 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
Stone makes a good point. It's not his place to write hair brained laws because some anti-gun wingnut tells him to! What about tolerance for others Jason? You know, that coexisty stuff? The same coexisting you always expect my side to cave in on? Why not practice what you preach? How refreshing that would be!
Dave Koven
9:54 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Jason Patzfahl...Excellent article! I couldn't agree with you more. I'd only like to re-emphasize to "dyed in the wool" gun owners: KIDS WILL SNOOP IN YOUR STUFF. They WILL play with whatever they find. "nuf said. I'm not too thrilled with government either, but if they really want to harm the people, I don't think the paltry weapons currently owned by "sportsmen" will scare them off. Responsible gun owners often lose their weapons to burglars who come when they are not home. Finally, the mentally ill will always be around. Often their behavior cannot be predicted. Like it or not, profiling would be a smart thing to consider. When a guy covered in Nazi tattoos comes into a gun shop, the police should be called just to see what can be learned. I don't think you'll find he sang in his church choir. Political correctness CAN be carried too far. As far as gun ownership goes, the "genie is out of the bottle". It's here to stay. Now we have to concentrate on safety for everyone. Maybe the NRA could spend less money on political action, and instead spend it on mental health services for the people that need it. The mentally ill are vastly underserved in this country.
Daniel S.
2:06 pm on Saturday, August 25, 2012
Jason writes: "You won't find a gun, real or fake, anywhere in my home." Is the video game system blocked from games that contain weaponry and violence?, how about the home computer system that I imagine the children use? Where do kids get the bright idea that it is okay to SNOOP through things that don't belong to them? Isn't that akin to criminal activity? Is it hereditary or just natural human instinct to seek out that which is not within our reach for whatever reason?


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-•:••■ - .-.'■ . .-;:•■-■ '. - ■■■■ i m m^wpwp INDEX Happy 150th NEWS AROUND INDIAN COUNTRY 2 Yankton but when? NEWS BRIEFS 3 COMMENTARY/EDITORIALS M CLASSIFIEDS 7 page 5 Indian Trust Cobell v. Kempthorne: $7 Billion Offer That Never Was page 4 The "Real Victim" notes from the fringe of the shaw society page 4 Jury finds self- proclaimed Indian chief guilty page 2 New Casino at Red Lake: A Risky and Ill-advised Venture page 4 Feasibility study gives mixed message on proposed Red Lake casino VOICE OF THE PEOPLE By Bill Lawrence The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians is planning to build a new casino at the southern edge ofthe reservation to replace the existing casino that is presently located in the town of Red Lake. Construction costs are estimated to be $20 million and the casino is projected to open by September 1,2009. The proposed casino will be 65,840 square feet and is expected to have between "300 and 500 slot machines, a full- service restaurant seating 60, a 40-room hotel with a pool, a small convention center for banquets/meetings that will seat 300, meeting space for tribal workshops or retreats, a 375-space parking lot, a staff parking area for 100 cars and corporate office space for Red Lake Gaming. The complex will employ 168 people, an increase [over the present Red Lake casino] of 50 employees." The preceding information is taken from an article by Greg Peterson, Indian Country Today, 8-01-08, and is credited to Raymond J. Brenny, COO for Red Lake Gaming Enterprises. Red Lake Gaming Enterprises (RLGE) hired GVA Marquette Advisors to conduct a feasibility study that was completed in November 2007. The report, prepared for Rick Rothausen, CFO of RLGE, presents information on both the proposed new casino to be located east of Highway 89 at the edge of the Red Lake reservation, and a "replacement of the Warroad casino on its existing site." The Marquette's report, entitled "Recommended Gaming Developments at Red Lake and Warroad Minnesota," gives an overview ofthe economic climate for both areas. Additionally the firm provides analysis of regional gaming competition, analysis of potential market support, recommendations for existing facilities in both locations, estimates of customer usage and projections of stabilized revenue and new revenue for each existing casino." (Marquette cover letter). Their conclusions are based on their knowledge of the gaming industry, what they learned doing market research and what information RLGE provided. Additionally, the Advisors stated their responsibility was to "assist in identifying the scope of facilities appropriate for both of these new casinos, [and] identify the size and scope of amenities that can be supported by the market for each location." Peterson's article reported that tribal officials hoped "several banks" would "loan the tribe money for the new casino. . . . The casino construction will be funded by a 'straight fixed-term mortgage . . . from a bank.'" Press/ON has heard the Mdewakaton Sioux Community has offered the Red Lake Band a $23 million loan with a 15-year payback at 6 percent interest for the project. Here are highlights regarding the proposed Red Lake Casino from both the Executive Summary and the body of the feasibility study. Quoted material comes verbatim from the report. It is clear that the Red Lake Casino is "totally oriented toward local patronage." The available gaming market share available to the Red Lake RED LAKE to page 6 White Earth plans to launch radio station DL-Online Organizers on White Earth hope to have the first Native American radio station on the air in Minnesota. In June, the Federal Communications Commissionannouncedthat Niijii Broadcast Corporation was a tentative selectee in a competitive process to secure a license to operate a radio station serving northwestern Minnesota. The project is designed to serve the White Earth reservation area and further into the region with two towers and will provide service from the area near Detroit Lakes to nearby Bemidji and nearly to Red Lake reservation. The project is coordinated by the White Earth Land Recovery Project, which applied for the license in October of 2007, the first time this opportunity for a community broadcast license had been opened to application in 14 years. Niijii's coordinator Andrea Hanks said, "The communities on the White Earth reservation have been waiting a long time for this station to become a reality, to hear a native voice on the daily radio, is going to be great." There are 33 Native American radio stations with 100 percent Native American content in the U.S. There are presently no Native American radio stations on any Minnesota reservations, although the Leech Lake reservation is in concert with the White Earth Land Recovery Project in applying for an FCC license. RADIO to page 6 Report: Indian casinos not immune from hard times By Heather Allen Moody's Investors Service released a report Wednesday that says American Indian gaming enterprises are not immune from the nation's economic downturn. And while four of the 19 "Native American Gaming Issuers" that are rated by Moody's have received negative rating actions since the beginning of the year, which includes both the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, the report concluded that many of the tribal enterprises have the ability to weather the economic downturn. "A prolonged, nationwide, consumer-driven recession could result in some negative rating actions for Native American gaming operators," said Jacques Ouazana, the author of Moody's report. "But many operators possess sound financial profiles that should see them through." The report comes two days before the state's tribally owned casinos, Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, are scheduled to release their July slot-machine revenue figures. The numbers are expected to be down, possibly dramatically, as both casinos reported exceptionally strong numbers in July 2007, just before the economy and slots revenues began to slide. Mohegan Sun, for example, saw $1 billion flow through its slot machines in July 2007, the best monthly gross ever at either of the state's casinos. But revenues began to slide in the fall because of soaring REPORT to page 6 Native Americans, Lung Disease: Facts to Remember By Jean Pagano There are a variety of lung diseases thataffect Native Americans. These diseases strike all types of Natives, both young and old, men and women, children and seniors. While not all lung diseases are related to cigarette smoking, many are, and this fact alone indicates that the rates could be much lower with the cessation of smoking, or in never starting. Asthma is a disease that crosses all age boundaries. While Native Americans trail African Americans in the incidence of asthma among children, Native numbers are still higher than Asians, Hispanics, and whites. 21.7 percent of Native children have been diagnosed with asthma along with 18.7 percent of Native adults. Native adults have the highest rate of asthma among any racial group. COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which in cludes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, is the sixth leading cause of death among Native men and the seventh for Native women. Cigarette smoking is the most common cause of COPD. Cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease, causes the mucus in the lungs to be thick and sticky. This in turn leads to clogging in the lungs and repeated lung infections and damage. Natives have the second highest rate of cystic fibrosis outside of the white community. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Native peoples. This type of cancer is much more prevalent among Alaskan natives and Northern Plains Native people than among the tribes in the Southwest. Lung cancer rates among women in the Southwestern region are 7.3 per 100,000 whereas the rates among Northern tribes for DISEASE to page 6 Senators slam Indian Health agency for lost items Minneapolis cuts ties to Heart of the Earth charter school By PATRICE RELERFORD, Star Tribune August 12, 2008 Minneapolis school board members voted Tuesday night to end the district's sponsorship of a charter school whose director is under investigation for allegedly embezzling money from the school's coffers. Without a sponsor, the school will have to close. The school board's decision to sever ties with Oh Day Aki/ Heart of the Earth beginning Sept. 9 ~ five days after classes are scheduled to resume — comes after a recent state- mandated audit revealed more than $160,000 missing. "What was perceived as a failure is not the school, not the parents, not the teachers, not the students and it is not me," Principal Darlene Leiding said through tears to board members. "The bottom line is, charter school law was not followed and oversight was not provided." Joel Pourier, the school's executive director, is under investigation by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office on allegations that he wrote checks •to himself. He spent a night in jail last week. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday. "Joel is not guilty," said Tom Sieben, Pourier's lawyer, before Tuesday's school board meeting, which his client did not attend. Sieben said, "He did not defraud, swindle or steal from that school." Heart of the Earth was one of the first American Indian- operated schools in the nation. It serves about 200 students, most of whom are American Indian. It opened in the 1970s as an alternative public school and became a charter school in 1999. Several supporters of the school attended Tuesday's meeting and said they were disappointed that developments there were harming their children. "Minneapolis played no part in this until now, when they're going to take it away," said Kileen Weise, whose grandchild attends the school. "It's not fair to the children." Board member Peggy Flanagan on Tuesday said board members plan to work with the school's families to find new charter, public or private schools for every student before the fall term begins. "This is not an easy decision. It ticks me off that one person was able to SCHOOL to page 6 web page: www.press-on.net Native 4» «j We Support Equal Opportunity For All People A weekly publication. Copyright, Native American Press, 2008 Founded in 1988 Volume 20 Issue 7 August 15, 2008 John Brown, the historic preservation officer for the Narragansett tribe, said rock mounds ne field, R.I., probably mark a burial or ceremonial ground common to several tribes. ar North Smith- Navajo leaders talk government reform By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE -The Navajo Nation president and the speaker of the Tribal Council have agreed to seek a reduction in the number of tribal lawmakers by more than half, but the agreement hinges on council approval. President Joe Shirley Jr. had proposed cutting the number of delegates from 88 to 24, but after weeks of talks with Speaker Lawrence Morgan, the two agreed on 40 as part of an effort to reform tribal government. Talks of government reform have surfaced since 1989 when the government was reorganized under three branches. Although the change was meant to create a system of checks and balances, it arguably tipped the balance of power to the legislative branch. The agreement announced Wednesday by the two tribal leaders sets deadlines for creating a governing document that Navajo voters would ratify and attempts to have voters decide on whether to reduce the council on Election Day. "There is a real dire need to address government reform at this time, and I'm glad we have actually begun to do something about it," Shirley said. Morgan called the agreement "a historic step toward government reform for Navajo people. "True reform needs to be carefully thought through and not a reactionary event," he said. Before the proposals can move forward, the Tribal Council would have to amend a section of law that states that a super majority of votes is needed to reduce the council. Instead of that requirement _ a majority vote in each of the tribe's 110 chapters _ Shirley and Morgan agreed to seek a majority of 35 percent of all registered voters. Forty percent of Navajo voters typically turn out for elections, and the number is generally higher during presidential elections. "I think we all wanted to ensure some minimal amount of participation before these monumental issues would be passed by the Navajo electorate," said Steve Boos, an attorney for Morgan. When Shirley announced an NAVAJO to page 6 Exhibit chronicles American Indians in baseball Associated Press HOWES CAVE, N.Y. -Long before Jackie Robinson endured torrents of racial taunts in breaking baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Louis Sockalexis had a bull's-eye on his back. From the day in 1897 when he first donned a uniform for the Cleveland Spiders, Sockalexis suffered more than his share of racial slurs. "If the small and big boys of Brooklyn find it a pleasure to shout at me, I have no objections," Sockalexis told the Brooklyn Eagle during his rookie season. "No matter where we play, I go through the same ordeal, and at the present time I am so used to it that at times I forget to smile at my tormentors." Sockalexis figured the tormenting was just part of the game, and why not? A Penobscot Indian from Maine, he's considered the first player of Native American descent to make it to the major leagues. (James Madison Toy played with Cleveland a decade earlier and was said to be of Sioux ancestry, but he never publicly acknowledged his Indian heritage and his 1919 death certificate lists his race as white.) Sockalexis's story is one of many chronicled in "Baseball's League of Nations: A Tribute to Native Americans in Baseball," an exhibit on display through the end of the year at the Iroquois Indian Museum. The exhibit features photos and several artifacts, many on loan from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in nearby Cooperstown. "There's never been an exhibit like this before," said 61-year-old Mike Tarbell, an Akwesasne Mohawk who serves as an educator at the museum and was a pitcher in his athletic heyday. "For myself, it's like a breath of fresh air. We're always doing something that involves pottery or basket making or painting or sculpturing of some kind. We've forgotten that baseball was a part of our history as well." Indeed. Counting current players Joba Chamberlain (Winnebago Nation) of the New York Yankees, Jaco'by Ellsbury (Navajo) ofthe Boston Red Sox, and Kyle Lohse (Nomlaki Nation) of the St. Louis Cardinals, more than 50 Native Americans have played major league baseball. "We came up with a lot of cool stuff that we didn't, think we were going to find," said museum curator Stephanie BASEBALL to page 7 Wind farm lease in place for tribe Associated Press LOWER BRULE, S.D. - Studies are under way and a lease has been signed with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and some nearby landowners to develop a wind farm, described as the first such project on the tribe's land. "We are delighted to be working with the Lower Brule Tribe on this important project," said Tim Seek of Iberdrola Renewables, developer of the 225-megawatt wind farm. "We look forward to moving forward with the many tasks we need to complete before construction can begin." If all the necessary permits are granted quickly, the wind farm could be operating as early as 2010 and would provide enough energy for 79,000 homes a year, according to estimates from the American Wind Energy Association. Michael Jandreau, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe chairman, said the project is another way to support a more diversified economy for the tribe and to take part in something that will benefit the entire region. "Mother Nature has blessed us with wind, and we are striving to develop it with our partner, Iberdrola Renewables, in a respectful and successful way," he said. Iberdrola Renewables has gotten permits to install three meteorological towers to collect wind data. As many as four more could be installed this summer. The company also plans tc finalize an agreement with a buyer for the power; get an agreement to move the power to where it will be used; conduct cultural, wetland and biologica surveys; meet with people in th< area to answer questions; finis! a federal environmental impac statement; and get various othe approvals. The North American divisioi of Iberdrola Renewables is basei in Portland, Ore. The compan says it provides more thai 8,000 megawatts of wind powe globally.
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