The Northcoast Journal's Editor is a Racist--Boycott the Northcoast Journal

It pains me to report this fact but there's no other explanation for the Editor of the Northcoast Journal's current postings on Eric Kirk's SoHum Parlance blog. Hank Sims is acting as a racist bigot who is currently ridiculing Bear River Tribal Council and Tribal members who have authorized the Heartlands Project leaders twice to represent the whole Tribe, over 300 members, in the Tribe's attempts to recover aboriginal territorial land under the ownership of Pacific Lumber Company.

Here is a copy of the first authorization given to me in 1996 before Donald Brenard joined the Headwaters Lottery project and together we changed the name to the Heartlands project.






Here is a copy of the latest authorization given to Don Brenard and myself in March of this year to represent the Bear River tribe and all its members in the Palco Bankruptcy proceedings in Corpus Christi, Texas.


Here is the text of that authorization given to Don Brenard and myself.

BEAR RIVER BAND of ROHNERVILLE RANCHERIA

27 BEAR RIVER DR. LOLETA, CA 95551 707.733.1900, fax 733.1972

February 28, 2008

Judge Richard S. Schmidt

United States Courthouse

1133 N. Shoreline Blvd.

Corpus Christi, TX 78401

Re: -Pacific Lumber Company Bankruptcy proceeding

-Claim of Aboriginal Title and Rights to Land Assets Presently Being Held by

Pacific Lumber Company and Scotia Pacific Company

Honorable Richard S. Schmidt:

The Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, a federally-recognized Tribe with

aboriginal claim to most of the land presently held by Pacific Lumber Company and

Scotia-Pacific Company, has designated Mr. Donald Brenard, an enrolled tribal member,

and the Heartlands Commission to represent the Tribe in the Pacific Lumber Company

Bankruptcy proceedings to represent the Tribe's title, interests and claims to its historical

and cultural lands in southern Humboldt County, CA. The Tribe's three specific interests

include 1) the recovery of ancestral lands under conservation easements, 2) the protection

and repatriation of the cultural resources in this area, including scores of documented

villages sites, burial sites, and other sacred sites, and 3) the sustainable economic

stewardship of the natural resources on those lands. The Tribe requests that, pursuant to

Executive Orders and federal laws related to government-to-government consultation, the

Court consider the claims and role of the Tribe in these proceedings.

Thank you sincerely for your consideration.

Dakota McGinnis

Vice-Chairman

Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria

I have repeatedly asked Hank Sims to report what has been happening with Bear River's attempt to enter the Palco Bankruptcy but he's refused and ridiculed the Heartlands Project in the NCJ and on Eric's blog. Eric Kirk has joined in with Hank in ridiculing the Heartlands Project and thus 300 Bear River tribal members who won't think their attempts at humor are anything more than white bigots in action.

It's people like Hank and Eric who give local Native Americans reason for distrusting white people. Even so-called "Progressives" cannot contain their prejudices when they think no one is looking.

Boycott the Northcoast Journal

Because the Editor is currently ridiculing the attempts of local Native Americans to regain their ancestral land.