[CPEO-MEF] Fwd: GSA "Draft" concerning Section 106 Process for SAAP issued May

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>Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:47:27 -0500
>To: "I. Blaine Hastings, CCIM" <Blaine.Hastings@gsa.gov>
>From: "UTOSI" <UTOSI-Hdqrs@kc.rr.com>
>Subject: GSA "Draft" concerning Section 106 Process for SAAP issued May
>   31, 2001,
>Cc: "President George W. Bush" <president@whitehouse.gov>,
>  "Vice President Dick Cheney" <vice.president@whitehouse.gov>,
>  "Congressman Dennis Moore" <howard.bauleke@mail.house.gov>,
>  "Secretary Gale Norton" <gale_norton@ios.doi.gov>,
>  "Stephen A. Perry via" <public.affairs@gsa.gov>,
>  "Mark Duffy" <mark.duffy@gsa.gov>,
>  "Commissioner Annabeth Surbaugh" <annabeth.surbaugh@jocoks.com>,
>  "Commissioner Doug Wood" <doug.wood@jocoks.com>,
>  "Commissioner Gary Anderson" <gary.anderson@jocoks.com>,
>  "Commissioner George Gross" <george.gross@jocoks.com>,
>  "Commissioner Susie Wolf" <Susie.Wolf@JOCOKS.COM>,
>  "Ralston Cox'" <rcox@achp.gov>,"Tom King" <TFKing106@aol.com>,
>  "John W. Ragsdale, Professor of Law" <ragsdalej@umkc.edu>,
>  "Weber-Pickett-Gale-Attorneys At Law" <swp@kclawoffice.com>,
>  "Sessions Law Firm" <william@session.com>,
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>  "Grace Hobson" <ghobson@kcstar.com>,
>  "Mike Hendricks" <mhendricks@kcstar.com>,jheaster@kcstar.com,
>  "Jim Carlton-WSJ" <jim.carlton@wsj.com>,
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>
>From:
>United Tribe of Shawnee Indians
>P.O. Box 505
>8375 Cedar Creek Road
>Shawnee Reserve Number 206
>De Soto, Kansas 66016-0505
>
>To:
>Mr. Blaine Hastings, Manager
>U.S. General Service Administration
>Property Disposal Field Office
>400 15th Street, SW
>Auburn, Washington 96001-6599
>
>With copy to:
>President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Congressman Dennis Moore, Third 
>District, Kansas.
>
>Dear Mr. Hastings:
>
>We have received your "Draft" Scope of work for services (potential 
>contractor) to assist GSA with the completion of the Section 106 (National 
>Historic Preservation Act of 1966) process for the disposal of the closed 
>Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant (SAAP) De Soto, Johnson County, Kansas 
>(Issued May 31, 2001) by your letter dated June 6, 2001.
>
>Copy of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, As amended through 
>2000 [With annotations]
>is located at the following URL:
>http://www.achp.gov/regs.html
>or
>http://www2.cr.nps.gov/laws/NHPA1966.htm
>
>We note that when this "Draft" becomes final you will allow any potential 
>contractor 14 calendar days to make a best and final offer to perform such 
>work.
>
>It is also noted the contract will be for the total 9065 acre SAAP site 
>and adjoining easement areas.
>
>Under your mandated Contractor provided services we note the following 
>starting at page 2 of 12 @:
>
>13.  Assist GSA in identifying all necessary tribal interest and to 
>develop and encourage their participation through the Section 106 process.
>
>16. Assist GSA in developing strategy to identify all tribal interest and 
>seek their participation throughout the Section 106 process to its
conclusion.
>
>Under your mandated 2) Archeological Resources we note the following 
>starting at page 6 of 12 @:
>
>b. Given what is known about and supposed about local prehistoric 
>settlement, subsistence, and other cultural systems, would the project 
>site have been a likely place for prehistoric people to have conducted 
>activities that could be expressed as an archeological site?
>
>c.  Given what is known about land use and construction on the site 
>(including basement depths), is it likely that significant historic or 
>prehistoric archeological sites, if they exist, are they preserved there 
>in whole or in part?
>
>Our Comments:
>
>Mr. Hastings you have done all you can to keep the United Tribe of Shawnee 
>Indians from becoming a Consulting Party to the Sec 106 Process for the 
>closed Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant.
>
>Your  "Draft" Scope of work for completion of the Section 106 process does 
>not contain any provisions that will protect our tribal graves located at 
>the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant as mandated by Native American Graves 
>Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq. [Nov. 16, 1990]
>
>A copy of subject act is located at:
>http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nagpra/DOCS/lgm003.html
>
>On numerous occasions the GSA, you and your attorney Mr. Mark Duffy have 
>been provided with official copies of United States treaties with our 
>tribe, the United Tribe of Shawnee Indians, that show that the Sunflower 
>Army Ammunition Plant site is part of our 1825, 1831 and 1854 1.6 million 
>acre treaty reservation. You were also provided with facts that subject 
>site was also home to numerous United Tribe of Shawnee Indian families due 
>to the 200 acre allotments as provided by our 1854 treaty.
>
>Our treaty reservation starts at the Missouri/Kansas state line and runs 
>120 miles West and from the Kaw river South 30 miles and includes Johnson, 
>Douglas and Shawnee counties of Kansas.
>
>Subject United States treaties with the United Tribe of Shawnee Indians 
>were negotiated with the President, Ratified by the Senate and confirmed 
>by the United States Supreme Court.
>
>Federal court records mandate that our 1.6 million acre tribal reservation 
>has never been disestablished or diminished.
>
>See: U.S. Supreme Court, The KANSAS INDIANS, 72 U.S. 737 (1866), 72 U.S. 
>737 (Wall.)
>located at:  http://sunflower.org/~hdqrs/bjacket.htm
>
>Your racist attempts to keep the United Tribe of Shawnee of Shawnee 
>Indians from becoming a Consulting Party in the Section 106 process will 
>not be tolerated.
>
>At this time we will also tell you that tribal grave sites of Parents, 
>Grand Parents and Great Grand Parents of our tribal members that are 
>buried at Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant are not "prehistoric people' 
>grave sites.
>
>Were your European, Asian or African ancestors "prehistoric people"?
>
>Our tribal headquarters is located on Indian Country (18 USC 1151 Section 
>a, b & c) know as Shawnee Reserve Number 206, and has never been part of 
>Johnson County or the state of Kansas.  Our tribal headquarters is located 
>3 miles from the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant.
>
>You have attempted to state the federal government does not recognize our 
>treaty reservation.  Your attention is directed to the following site that 
>shows the following: Note that the federal government list our reservation 
>in the Third Congressional District, Kansas of The Honorable Dennis Moore.
>http://www.gdsc.bia.gov/Districts/cdstatesearch.asp
>
>STATE  DIST #  RESERVATION  Kansas
>
>Kansas 3 Shawnee
>Congressman Name:
>Dennis Moore (D)
>Congressman Website:
>http://www.house.gov/moore/
>
>Your attention is also directed to the following information about the 
>desecration of Shawnee Indian graves located within our reservation:
>
>http://www.osteopathonline.com/History/atstill.htm
>and
>http://www.osteopathonline.com/History/the.htm
>
>Andrew T. Still, Osteopathic Roots.
>
>....The next ten years of Dr. Still's life were spent studying, observing, 
>comparing and experimenting. After re-reading the medical books and 
>finding no answers there, he turned to nature. He dug up Indian graves to 
>provide him with the bodies for research. For over a year he concentrated 
>on the study of bones, experimenting to understand their relationship to 
>one another. Then he studied the blood, which he called the "river of 
>life," and how the blood flowed.....
>
>By copy of this letter we are asking The Honorable Dennis Moore to work 
>with the President and Vice President to insure the mandates, as contained 
>our Shawnee Treaties, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, As 
>amended through 2000 and the Native American Graves Protection and 
>Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq. [Nov. 16, 1990]  are complied 
>with by your office and the GSA.
>
>No less no more is what our tribe requires of the General Services 
>Administration (GSA).
>
>The United Tribe of Shawnee Indians shall be a Consulting Party to the 
>Section 106 and the disposal process for the Sunflower Army Ammunition 
>Plant whether you like it or not.
>
>The United Tribe of Shawnee Indian grave sites located at Sunflower Army 
>Ammunition Plant shall be protected.
>
>Very truly yours.
>
>                    /S/
>Jimmie D. Oyler, Principal Chief
>United Tribe of Shawnee Indians


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