SAULT TRIBE FACTS - If it is not a fact it must be fiction................................

Tony Grondin wrote:

Someone has seriously mislead Ms. Judi Engle. In her letter to the editor of the St. Ignace News, Ms Engle states, "There are few items that may be considered as "sacred" and that fit with Repatriation Act."

Without showing disrespect to any items I must say that Ms. Engle knows little of the Native American Culture. ANY ITEM any Native American wants to bring into ceremony is considerd sacred. I recently viewed the articles and appraisal. The apprasal is a list of items in the collection with a value put on the by an individual considered to be an authority on their worth.

Some have questioned his qualifiications but personally I don't know what they are. What I do know is that the appraisal does not show the origin of any artifacts. There were about a dozen, give or take, that noted they were found at such and such place. Doesn't say who, when or where they were found. There was not one item that I viewed that gave any era of the artifact.

Other than the British and French artifacts, everyone of the Native American Artifacts can be Repatriated.

I also spoke with Ms. Engle about the artifacts taken from the Ojibwe Museum site that have been left at Michigan State University for the last thirty years. She was aware of their existence by didn't know why they have not been claimed. They are there and free whenever the City of St. Ignace wants to go get them. Many years ago the City of St. Ignace dismantled a historic home that sat at the North end of the City with the mind set that it would be preserved and re-erected. As a matter of fact it was across the road from the Adley Grondin home, Mayor Paul Grondins' family. Nobody knows where it is now,,,,,,,,,,,,, it sat for years behind the salt shed at the DPW.

Now the City Fathers want us to believe they are really concerned about the preservation of our heritage. The answers lay with all the other unanswered questions. What is the specific accounting of every dollar of the $760,000???? $750,000????, and as of the Thursday, May 3, 2007 issue of the St. Ignace News, $708,000 the tribe wants to give the city for the purchase of Fort de Baude for the Historical Society. Mind boggling isn't it.

Just when the City of St. Ignace assures everyone that everything is worked out, we find that there is now a misunderstanding of who's going to t do what. Front page Thursday, May 3, 2007 issue of the St. Ignace News, " Mr. Massaway and Ms. Engle asked that the city allow the historical society to operate the museum and the store independently." "A mutual type of thing would work, no problem, but the city dictating how to runit, I don't think that kind of process will work," said Mr. Massaway."

Is Mr. Massaway speaking for the Historical Society, the Tribe?????????? Who??????? Sounds like a problem to me. They claim this aggreement doesn't violate the 2% judgment?????? The City of St. Ignace accepting 2% money for a none city entity???????? I'm going fishing for smoked fish off the ferry dock!!!!!!! How does that old saying go,,,,,,,,, something warm running down your back and it's not raining,,,,, not sure how it goes :0)... Hey the water tower is still standing but empty.

TG