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Federal agencies coordinate clean up of Navajo Uranium mines

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Them vs. Us underlines quick and senseless racism: Cross project explained during Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable and conference; emotion filled video on human divisions and prejudices shown by Menominee, MI pastor William Shepard

Northern Michigan Lutheran Rev. Bill Shepard is on a quest - effectively showing how quickly racist opinions are formed - and documenting the sacred meaning of special crosses across the United States.

Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable came out strongly against racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, if fighting the distorted name of the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.

Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians

Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable came out strongly against racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, if fighting the distorted name of the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.

Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians

Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable came out strongly against racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, if fighting the distorted name of the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.

Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians

Centering Prayer helps prepare mind and body to fight racism, environmental injustice; and other evils in the world; Prayer must be accompanied by action 

Featured speaker at the Turtle Island Project (TIP) Native American Roundtable and Regional Conference was Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indian - the co-founder and board chair of the TIP.

The Celtic cross hanging in front of Dr. Cairns has great symbolism. Celtics were indigenous peoples who practiced Earth-based Christianity in Scotland and other European countries.

Racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation were discussed at first Turtle Island Project Native American Roundtable in Munising, Michigan 

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, stands above the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.

Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians.

(photo by Jim Dahlheimer)

TIP NA Roundtable included discussion of Native American authors; Books by late great Native American author Vine Deloria Jr were discussed at roundtable

Turtle Island Project (TIP) Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard holds up one of several books on Native Americans during the TIP first Native American Roundtable and conference on Sept. 13-15, 2007 at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising.