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From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@hotmail.com>
To: <warriornet@lists.speakeasy.org>
Subject: US Natives In Cuba
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:22:40 -0800
 

NATIVE DELEGATION FROM U.S. ARRIVES IN HAVANA

Special to Workers World
San Francisco

The first-ever Native-Cuba Cultural Exchange arrived in
Havana on Feb. 5.

The project was initiated by the International Peace for
Cuba Appeal. The delegation is led by Native leader Dennis
Banks and includes representatives and activists from many
Native nations from around the country, many of them dancers
and drummers.

The trip is the realization of an invitation made by
President Fidel Castro to Dennis Banks in 1993. Banks--along
with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, African
American author Alice Walker and others--had been delivering
$2 million worth of insulin to the Cuban people.

This trip will focus on Native culture and history, both
in the U.S. and Cuba. Features of the trip will include a
shared performance with the National Folkloric Dance Group,
visits to historical sites in Mantanzas and Pinar del Rio
associated with the Native peoples of Cuba, meetings at the
University of Ministries of Culture and Justice, and visits
to schools, daycare centers and Committees in Defense of the
Revolution.

The delegation will also deliver several thousand dollars
worth of medicines and dental supplies.

The delegation left for Cuba after a grand send-off
celebration in San Francisco with Native dancing and
drumming, speakers and music from well-known activist Floyd
Red Crow Westerman. The send-off was attended by 150 people
and raised over $1,500 for the trip.

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