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5 CLEARING HOUSE A CALL FOR HELP! We are in need of Indian women interested in joining to help establish a Women's Auxiliary for the Indian prisoners at San Quentin. There are a million things to be done, not the least of which is corresponding with the men. We also want to make family contacts and help prisoners families when they are in need of aid their men cannot provide them. In general, we will do what the Indian Cultural Group at SQ wants us to do--whether it be to send them books or make arrangement to visit them. We will begin to establish a network of employment possibilities and letter-writers for Indian prisoners as they come up for parole. Eventually, we hope to begin such auxiliaries for every Indian prisoners group, women prisoners as well. Call Marguerite Vey or Patty Silvas if you can join us in even one of the tasks above. WIPE OUT INDIAN STEREOTYPES! It has come to our attention that the San Francisco office of the Community Relations Service is aiding Bay Area citizens in a project which promises to be a great opportunity for us to wipe out TV stereotypes of Indians... It seems all local TV stations come up for FCC license renewal in September of this year. This project will provide training to interested groups in areas of TV surveying, negotiating, and petition-writing. The Community Relations Service is providing training and resource people. including communication lawyers. The background of the project is something like this: the public owns the airways. The 1930's FCC law requires that TV and radio reflect community concerns and needs. This part of the law was virtually ignored until the 60's when a group in 40% Black Jackson, Mississippi petitioned for and were successful in having a License of a local TV station revoked. The station had been discriminating against Blacks. This is our chance for reforming the TV image of Indians! Please pass the news along and get as many Indians as possible interested in attending training sessions. Lets get a group together and do it. Contact Patty Silvas at 752-7180 (S.F.) or 549-2629 (Berkeley). Ideas • Most Indian student groups in colleges are composed of young women with families as well as other young people. They are often in need of baby-sitters and do not like to leave their children with non-Indians/ How about some of the older women in the community joining in a day-care effort for these young-mother? Surely the colleges can fund... • Young Indians would welcome crafts classes in beading and head-dress making, etc... • HOw about auditing the many extension, free school and regular courses and reviewing the many, many magazine articles and TV programs which have popped up recently about Indians (there's an Iroquois article in this months Scientific American and a Black Mesa article in the current issue of Earth)...better yet, why not form a group to do just that?? • Directory of Indian organizations in the Americas...?
