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INDIAN TIME 1 , Hogansburg \Your guess is is IN THIS ISSUE: VERMONT: MOHAWK LAND LACROSSE NEWS HOCKEY SCHEDULE CKON-FM RADIO ARTISTS INFO POETRY olume 1 Number 13 December 16, 1983 Price 50 cents ©ftYOF A Akwesasne Station CKON WM Nearing Air CKON is a community radio station which will provide community service broadcasts. . . to the community of Akwesasne. Cornwall Island - Akwesasne Radio CKON 973 FM, located about two miles east of the crossroads on Cornwall Island, is tentatively scheduled to go on the air January 1st, 1984 with their first test broadcasts. An earlier'air date of December 1 st reported by Indian Time proved to be an op- timistic estimate of the station's completion. In an interview with, station manager Lloyd Benedict and acting traffic manager Diane Lazore, they said that they are Waiting to get the equipment into the station and that once it arrives it should take engineer Frank David only three or four days to get it installed. The transmitter tower, built by Ian Seymour, stands over one hundred feet tall and according to Lloyd it Js located at the highest point on the Island. This combination will give CKON a broadcast radius of 10 to 15 miles with ah FM transmission output of 50 to 100 watts. \ CKON will employ a staff of 8 Disc Jockeys in addition to the 4 managerial positions of Station Manager, Traffic, Operations, and Programing, Based on an 18 hour broadcast day from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight, each DJ will average 4 hours of air time per shift. The station is housed in a log building constructed by Lloyd, with floor planning by Frank, and interior decore design by Salli Benedict. The primary reasons for going FM instead of AM are the FM capability of covering more area on less power and that FM is cheaper and easier to certify. CKON is the brainchild of the Akwesasne Communica- tions Society which was organized late in 1982 for the primary purpose of improving communications for the com- munity of Akwesasne. The main project of the Communica- tion Society at present is the establishment of a community radio station with plans and aspirations for more broadcast output and a higher transmission tower. Lloyd expressed a desire to eventually include broadcast facilities for television: via satelite and UHF frequencies. When asked about the possibility of installing newswire services, Lloyd expressed his regret that present newswire (GP) services were beyond their financial capbilities but that they had alternative plans for an Indian news service through a computer/telephone in- terface network for news exchange with other Indian com- munities such as Kanawake and reserves in southern On? tario. \ . MOHAWK LAND ^Hi^SHWONT .wk Na&on, as Qfle ©f the Six Nations Hotinon- 4 htttoHcally sought to exercise 'fc^ht is now the American vague about the extent of territory, tttc Mohawks have demonstrated a CKON Tower on Cornwall Island. Initial funding for CKON was provided by the Quebec government of Rene Laveque. The state of New York and the Province of Ontario are also considering CKON pro- posals and Premier Davis is expected to attend the official opening of the Cornwall Island radio station in January. CKON has also received contributions from the community of Akwesasne and professional people from. Cornwall. CKON is asking for contributions in any amount. The average contribution from local and area businesses averages at about f 100.00 dollars apiece. V CKQN is a community radio station which Will provide community service broadcasts for the HVFD, Rescue Squads, Homemakers, Day Care, Mohawk Language pro- grams, Drugs and Alcohol programs, police reports, Canada Manpower, NYS employment, the St. Regis Environmental Division, Health and Welfare, Church groups, Summer pro- grams and other subjects of interest to the community of Akwesasne. CKON is always open to suggestions regarding programing and topics of coverage. \ ; Programing for CKON will be pretty much middle of the road with regard to music, but CKON will provide progranv. ing for all musical tastes during its 18 hour broadcast day. v Radio CKON is presently accepting resumes and applica- tions for DJ's. Lloyd said that CKON has no formal applica- tion forms.and that an application and personal interview. will suffice. So if you think you are DJ material, by all means apply for a slot. Indian Time would like to take this oppor- tunity to express solidarity with CKON in our common man- date to provide Akwesasne with much needed communica- tion services. More power to you (if you'll pardon a rather good pun)! y ••• '-.\_\,';.Y', 'V Lloyd Benedict, CKON Station Manager remarkable familiarity with their national boundaries. Their land claims can be substantiated by available and extensive primary resource documents and are sufficient enough to in- clude large sections of the state of New York, the province of Quebec, and of course, Vermont. Contrary to some historians, the Mohawks were not re- cent immigrants, to the areaeast of Lake Champlain. The pre- sent definitive arch^ological data substantiates a distinct Mohawk presence in, Vermont hundreds of years prior to Native—European contacts. Indians as a group have been in the Vermont area ipf as long as 9000 years. The native culture of'that era is noted for it's small bands of wandering hunters called the Paleo-lndians and lasted from 7000 — 3500 BC., ./;/;•.', ' - ' ' ' ' • \. ' There were-gradual Changes in native culture leading to the growth of larger bands relying for their sustenance on a combination of hunting and the gathering of plants. These Archaic; peop^werepresent in Vermont from 3500 B.C. The fertility <iftjhek>yiands initiated the active cultivation of plants which in turn led to the growth of permanent villages marked primarily by the ^development of sophisticated pot- tery and projectile.'•'\ .manufacturing techniques. This Woodland period tested from 1000 B.C. until the European settlement of Nojth Americacirca 1600 AD.. Archeblpgi^s nave noted that the present data suggests the growth of a distinctive Iroquoian culture in the North East region dates at least 900 years ago. Iroquoian-Mohawk artifacts from th6 fcate Woodland cultural phase have been found in Vermont at such places as Swartton, Milton, Ad- dison, Brattleboro, Monkton, Colchester, Shoreham, Alburg, and Orwell These villages were surrounded by fields of corn along clean flowing rivers They formed part of a vast indigenous trading network which found items from as far \away as the Gulf of Mexico in the possession of the Vermont Mohawks Arguments have been waged that the Mohawks in fact were but recent arrivals to Vermont with the date for their entry fixed at 1540 A D , only a few decades from the European discovery of the state This claim is not substan- tiated by material fact The first European to actually enter the present area of Vermont was the French colonizer, Samuel de Champlain in 1609 Champlain had arrived in America initially in 1603 as a passenger on a trading venture to the St Lawrence River. He noted the potential of the area for the fur trade. He did nor know that the region had once been the territory of the Iroquois, fr lact noted by his predecessor Jacques Car- tier As one historian observed/ \in the ttm*4*fC*rtt*r and Roberval, the valley bbi »tr*tni<n*i«** of •**--- 1 -- i - SfyfiUtcona and a fl**, concern was to secure alliances in the area. He attributed the •irtttgRcs along the St.Lawrehce * r FIRE WARNING! THE DANGERS OF WET FREEZING WEATHER AND GAS REGULATORS, OR, HOW TO TURN YOUR ORDINARY KITCHEN STOVE INTO A FLAMETHROWER. On Wednesday morning I got up as usual and prepared to make a pot of coffee for my daily kick start. Still half asleep I lit a mfttch to my gas stove to neat up the water. Too late 1 realized'that therfc was something jftrong, 'the stovfc sounded more like a flamethrower than a kitchen stove as the match ignited the gas sending a fireball half way to the ceiling after singeing my hands, nose hair, and eyebrows. The stove top continued to burn even after I turned the burner off. Although I was now fully aWake I did something which wasn't top smart, I got up real close and blew it out. 1 did manage to blow jt out but only after taking another blast of heat real close to my face. I don't recommend this method of putting out a gas fire. Later in the morning I tried it again and the stove worked just fine. After a little investigation and a conversation with Frank Lacerenza of the Hogansburg Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, I found out that the problem was in the gas regulator located outside the house. Mr. Lacerenza explained that the weather conditions were just right to cause the regulator to malfunction. Apparently the combination of wet winter weather and freezing temperatures causes the regulator to seize up sending too much gas through the system. The real danger is when this happens to a stove or heater with a pilot light. Without warning the stove can burst into flames fed by gas from the frozen regulator. I lucked out because I happen to have an Indian stove that requires the use of a match in- stead of a pilot light to start the burner. I could have ended up singeing quite a bit more than a little hair if this had hap- pened during the night or white I was gone from the house. Myself, I think I'll stick to the tried and true Indian style stove, but Frank said that gas regulator malfunction might be prevented by providing some kind of housing and insulation for the regulator that is located outside \the house. However, | I would advise consulting an expert on gas regulators before building any sort of housing for it, just to be sure that the housing will be effective in preventing this type of regulator break down. And it Wouldn't hurt to invest in a proper fire extinguisher to keep around the house. The price of an ex- tinguisher is certainly cheaper than rebuilding a house. So if your stove suddenly becomes a flamethrower, don't panic, first get your family out of the house and then turn off the gas at the source before worrying out extinguishing the fire in your stove. Better yet, don't waste any time puttingapro- tective housing around your gas regulator and you won't have to worry about this happening to you. And never ever try to blow out a fire with your face, especially if you have long hair, a beard, and a moustache. Dan I i •Si
