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1976 Armed Cascadia Takeover Article Scans October 25th, 1976 - Cascadia Agreement Iffy -
News Tribune - Page A1 October 25th, 1976 - Sunday peaceful but hectic at Cascadia pt1- Tacoma News Tribune - Page A3 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1025_A3_Sundayhectic_00.jpg October 25th, 1976 - Sunday peaceful but hectic at Cascadia pt2 - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A3 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1025_A3_Sundayhectic_01.jpg October 25th, 1976 - Sunday peaceful but hectic at Cascadia pt3 - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A3 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1025_A3_Sundayhectic_02.jpg October 25th, 1976 - Sunday peaceful but hectic at Cascadia pt4 - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A3 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1025_A3_Sundayhectic_03.jpg October 26th, 1976 - Order Sought to
Oust Indians pt1 - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A1 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1026_A1_Ordersought_00.jpg October 26th, 1976 - Order Sought to Oust Indians pt2 - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A1 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1026_A1_Ordersought_01.jpg October 26th, 1976 - Indians Gather To Tour - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A4 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1026_A4_Indianstogathertotour_.jpg October 26th, 1976 - Keys to Cascadia - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A4 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1026_A4_KeystoCascadia_00.jpg October 26th, 1976 - Bottiger Calls For Review - Tacoma News Tribune - Page B14 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1026_B14_Bottigercallsforrevie.jpg October 26th, 1976 - State Could Shift Cascadia
Function - Tacoma News Tribune - Page B14 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1026_B14_Statecouldshiftfuncti.jpg October 27th, 1976 - Puyallups Ordered Out of Cascadia - Tacoma News Tribune - Page ? http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1027_00_Puyallupsorderedoutofc.jpg October 27th, 1976 - Between Feds & State: Cascadia Dispute Juggled by BIA - Tacoma News Tribune - Page ? http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1027_00_Cascadia-dispute-juggl.jpg October 27th, 1976 - Gordon Lauds Cascadia Edict - Tacoma News Tribune - Page ? http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1027_00_Gordon-lauds-Cascadia-.jpg October 27th, 1976 - New Name For An Old Building - Tacoma News Tribune - Page ? http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1027_00_New-name-for-an-old-bu.jpg October 30th, 1976 -
Cascadia Reports Progress on Takeover Settlement - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A1 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1030_A1_Cascadia-repor.jpg October 30th, 1976 - Cascadia Reports Progress, Photo: Ickes Talks to Press - Tacoma News Tribune - Page A1 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1030_A1_Ickes-talks-to.jpg October 31st, 1976 - Is it Cascadia, Cushman, or Chief Leschi? Pt1- Tacoma News Tribune - Page B9 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1031_B9_IsitCascadia_00.jpg October 31st, 1976 - Is it Cascadia, Cushman, or Chief Leschi? Pt2- Tacoma News Tribune - Page B9 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a187/soulfullyyours/Leschi/1976_1031_B9_IsitCascadia_01.jpg Excerpt of what I wrote on alt.native: ...I also have more newspaper cut outs that are aging. By next week I will be able to scan those too. These that I posted are cleaned up, the brown aged paper made lighter and cleaner looking, but the originals are pretty brown now. (I have good software for making old things new.) About who the pictures are of, I don't know. I stumbled into the takeover. I only remember Ramona Bennett, a man named Chi (sounds like shy) and a man that went by or named Geronimo (big guy). I am African American and I was about 18 years old when I was home and saw on the noon news that the government had given the Puyallup Tribe a 4 o'clock DEADline to turn the property back over to them. The news said that the national guard would take it by force then - or that's what was strongly implied. They showed men from the Tribe outside of Cascadia patroling. I couldn't wait until the 5 o'clock news to passively view if the national guard had opened fire on the Tribe with all their weaonry. It didn't take much brains - no matter what ethnicity anyone is - to sense what was up with the 4 o'clock deadline that day. I knew HISTORICALLY what was very likely about to happen. I thought they will have to kill me too. I grabbed my keys and left a note for my roommate, who is Hispanic, that I was going to Cascadia, and that I would be there, the morgue, or in jail. I drove up to Cascadia's gate, my car was surrounded as I explained my heart - and I guess I passed the heart test. I was let through. Oh that makes me teary eyed now. Back then I just knew I had to be there. But now, so many years later, I realize what an HONOR it was to be trusted on sight - with just a short exchange of words. I wonder what I said, or if it was even words that opened the gate to me that day. People across the road were writing down license plate numbers of those who entered. When my roommate got off work she joined me and stayed the full time as well... going AWOL from the Army to be there. I was young, not from Tacoma, and had no idea about the history of the Puyallup Tribe or it's struggle to go through all the steps year after year to right this particular wrong. As a kid I went to a predominantly native school in Minneapolis though - where we had pow wows instead of bake sales, fried bread instead of doughnuts (I'm smiling) - and where I was invited into the beading circles where my white friends were not allowed. It wasn't a Native shool like the magnificent Chief Leschi school - it was Native as a result of poverty all pressed into one area. It didn't teach truth. That was back in the day. You know the story. What I saw once inside the compounds of Cascadia then was new to me. Political strength. The tribes coming in from other states and the OLD DIVISIONS completely set aside was so beautiful. The numbers were frightening to the government I'm sure. The numbers - the pouring in of people probably had a lot to do with the government's pause. All night though we anticipated anything, including mass death. But the PEACE in everyone's eyes. I have never felt I could convey to anyone how peaceful the eyes are of people who are willing to die for what they believe. I never once sensed ANY FEAR, just certainty. Is there anything higher? Whoops... don't get me started. Next thing you know Washington DC folks are flying in and State folks arriving - coming on the grounds for negotiations - timidly trying to scoot around the CROWD of singers surrounding a drum that is vibrating the ground with it's message - a crowd of voices raising a song that blocks straight entrance to the door. You have to go around. <O> <O> Dazzling power shift. Just smooth. Everytime I drive by that building now, my eyes shine. And I see that incredible casino now there too just a short walk down a small hill - and think HOW MUCH has changed. The takeover was a pivotal moment. I am trying to find my personal photos too - which I really need to turn over to the tribe. I only saw one other person there besides myself, inside, taking pictures. I didn't take a lot - but I have a few. It was awesome... powerful... peaceful strong and resolute. If anyone knows Ramona please be sure that she finds out about these pictures. She may have them already, I don't know... but just in case. Sorry for talking so much. :) Much love and respect, Cloud Writer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is my community page: small still voice
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