Urgent Call to Pow Wow at D. Q. University April 6, 2008, 10 AM

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Here is what all of our efforts and coming together as one has brought us...a glimmer of hope... (referring to the e-mail attached below) HOWEVER,

Don't "stand down" Stand up and speak up for justice and respect

Now is the time to really put the screws in all the right places and fix D. Q. U. for once and for all, we can not drop our guard nor be caught unaware. It is extremely important that everyone who possibly can come to the D. Q. U. Pow Wow and Community Meeting on Sunday, April 6, 2008, and stand up and not "stand down" and speak up for justice and respect. It is not right what they are doing and what they want to do with D. Q. U., however, that is really not the most important thing, any longer. Now the students have been forced out of their home in the dorms, in other words they were made homeless, they were uprooted and relocated to nowhere. Both students and genuine D. Q. U. supporters and backers have been victims of the most humiliating and inhumane treatment by the very ones that should be responsible for their well being. The illegal "Board of Trustees", the Yolo Board of Supervisors Chairman, Duane Chamberlain and the Yolo County Sherriff Department, have come onto the grounds of D. Q. U. without announcement nor provocation and with lethal Nazi tactics brutally forcibly removed the legitimate representatives which are the students and community of D. Q. U. If you saw our grandmother Rosa being arrested and dragged off to jail, the D. Q. U. dorms and property being vandalized and the young students having guns aimed at their heads, and other students dragged at gun point from the sweat lodge ceremonial fire you can see that all these actions are being carried out with impunity. It is not only about the education at D. Q. U.,now, it is about sovereignty and human rights of all indigenous people.

Many people have been invited and preparing for this Pow Wow for over a month that are not aware of everything else that has been going on here. These people, D. Q. U. supporters, are coming with their families to enjoy a happy Sunday afternoon and attend a Community meeting where the future of D. Q. U. will be decided. There is no way to contact all the people that have been invited and are coming to tell them not to come, so these people might be walking into a trap if we were to leave them alone. Further, after speaking to the students directly involved they are committed and willing to stand up, just like grandmother Rosa was willing to stand up and face those threatening her rights and freedoms.

There is a call from some to give "space" and let the "Board of Directors" hold their "closed door meeting" to "decide how they might best develop a strategy for improving relations and for the future of D. Q. U." It would be ideal if the "Board of Trustees" was an honorable and legitimate board of directors whose word could be trusted, however, they have not held nor attended an open meeting because they have been canceling them. We know that some members, Jane Elliot, Shirley Lincoln, Margaret Hoaglin, Angelina Trippoor, have been meeting in secret without notifying even the board chairman,according to his words, and so it would be foolish to give them more "space" to correct their actions, since they do not acknowledge that they have done anything wrong. Giving them more space no would just give them more time to dig our grave a little deeper.

This Pow Wow has been called in the true meaning of pow wow, to gather the community to discuss and plan necessary steps to insure the integrity of the people. It will also be the first step to establishing a D. Q. U. Defense Committee to help cover the costs and expenses of the legal defense of our people that have been direct victims of this abuse.

Regarding the "Aztek Corn Planting Ceremony", this is not an actual planting that will take place at this gathering, rather, this is simply an acknowledgment of the time that we are living in the earth's cycle according to the ancient indigenous calendar (mka aztec calendar) which shows that this is the time for "shedding of the old that is realized in the people and in nature" a profound transformation is taking place and it will not be "business as usual", anymore. We are in the 13 day period of the flower...maturity and patience, and steadfastness is our best guide.

Those people on the outside have no insight of what is really going on or what we should do about it...and their suggestions, as good intentioned as they might be, would only serve to ease the feelings of those people who are to blame, and their intentions for D. Q. U. are not the same as the student's intention. We must continue supporting the students and the return of D. Q. U. to full operating status, at this very crucial time.

With all due respect to all, some of these people calling now for a call down had previously said "Among the many other matters talked about was whether the Pow-Wow set for Sunday, April 6 will be uninterrupted? And questions about whether the performers from UC Davis on Saturday will still attend the Sunday event at DQ? I am working now to help secure the event without interruptions. (It also happens to be the day for the BOT meeting in the morning according to the Chair, Calvin Hedrick!) We took them at their word then, So standing Down now is not a legitimately order, request nor option for us.

PLEASE STAND UP
AND DO NOT STAND DOWN
COME TO THE POW WOW AND SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY MEETING TOMORROW
APRIL 6, 2008. COMMUNITY MEETING BEGINS AT 10 A.M.

Peace, Dignity and Respect for D.Q.U.

timo itazke...see you later

INDIGENOUS NATIONS NETWORK
Willie Underbaggage willychili [at] hotmail.com
Mazatzin zemazatzin [at] hotmail.com
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:17:03 -0700
From: scabiestiger [at] yahoo.com
Subject: A glimmer of hope shines through at DQ University
To: popechickle [at] hotmail.com

THE A.O.N. NEWZHOUND IS SAYING THAT there has been little to no police presence at DQ University for the past two days -and nights. People close to our circle are saying that the Yolo County Sheriffs Department has been told to stay out of DQ completely, by the Department of Justice. Please stand by for more information.