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Located in the Tygh band's traditional homelands (also known as Mt. Hood National Forest), there is a land based encampment for Intertribal Native people to provide for the preservation of these cultures. Permission and prayers from the traditional Elders of the Tygh band (Warm Springs) were given to Devere Eastman (aka "Brave Buffalo") and ANPO for this encampment and the Intertribal ceremonies to be held on their homelands. A permit from the Mt. Hood National Forest was acquired in 1982.
In 1973, following Wounded Knee, ANPO and the first encampment was established with the instruction and guidance of Frank Fools Crow, Honorary Chief and Medicine Man of the Lakota people, and his adopted son Devere Eastman.
In 1982 permission and guidance was given by Frank Fools Crow to Devere Eastman to bring the sacred Sun Dance Ceremony to the west. Permission and prayers were given by the Tygh Elders.
ANPO camp has been open to five hundred to seven hundred Indigenous people yearly, three seasons out of the year since 1982, providing ongoing activities and the Sun Dance Ceremony. There are many many families involved who have grown up and whose children have grown up knowing these sacred campgrounds as their own. Many Native people have sacrificed through ceremonies for the health of the earth, the people, and all of creation.
In 1985 Devere Eastman resigned, asking the people to oversee ANPO, the camp, and the Sun Dance. Devere Eastman "Brave Buffalo" died in 1987. Since then, the regional and national foresters have increasingly put pressure on the camp, the organization, and the people in forms of restrictions, limitations, and harassments. ANPO, family, and friends have always met these requirements, under the gun of suspension and strict time-lines.
Now the regional and national forester have REVOKED the permit to the lease on the land, literally because of an abandoned truck and a fire tool bus were not removed from camp before winter set in. The revocation followed on the heels of ANPO's request through the freedom of information act for the "archeological findings" from the desecrating digs done by the US Government in 1995. Approximately sixteen holes (4'x 4'x 4') were made throughout camp and on the Sun Dance grounds. CALL FOR THE REINSTATEMENT OF ANPO NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL ENCAMPMENT Special Use Permit, User #4217 (Record #70, region 06, Barlow 01, Wasco County Oregon) with the Mt. Hood National Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
contact:
First Nations Survival Support Network
P.O. Box 42608, Portland, OR 97242
Ph: 503/635-0460
Write/Call/Fax:
John Lowe, Regional Forester
USDA Forest Service
ATTN: 1570 Appeals
P.O. Box 3623
Portland, OR 97208-3623
Ph: 503/326-3625, Fax: 503/326-7577
National Forest Service
Dept. of Agriculture
ATTN: 1570 Appeals
Auditors Building, 201 14th Street SW
at Independent Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20250
Ph: 202/205-1065, Fax: 202/205-0885
Fourth World Bulletin • Spring/Summer 1996
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