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Kimberly Teehee, representing the Congressional Indian Caucus in Washington DC. has announced to us that the national holiday for Native Americans bill will go before Congress sometime after they reconvene next year. This gives us ample time to build a stronger conscious of all Americans to inform the Federal Government that our tax dollars paying for Columbus Day is a National sick joke.

Kimberly Teehee and the Congressional Indian Caucus are to be commended for taking on the issue calling for a national holiday for Native Americans. It is United Native America's stand to change Columbus Day to Native American Day. The vast majority of Americans are in favor of this instead of creating a whole new tax paid holiday from the Federal Government.

We have contacted the press secretary of Senator Campbell of Colorado and informed him of our holiday petition online and that over ten thousand seven hundred people have signed the petition, he requested that I send the holiday petition link to him. He was unaware that we had sent thousands of hand signed petitions to the Indian Caucus and that seventeen States do not recognize Columbus Day, and the state of South Dakota has changed Columbus Day to Native American Day. We request that this information be passed on to the Senator and would like a response as to where he stands on this issue.

We have spoken to presidential candidate Bush's press secretary's office concerning an Internet email that is going around stating that Mr. Bush will consider appointing Senator Gorton of Washington State to the secretary of interior office, if the Indian tribes are successful in his not being reelected to the Senate. They have informed us that this email is totally false and is trying to find out where it originated from.

It is United Native America's stand that Senator Gorton with his anti Indian attitude, should not even be on the Indian Affairs committee! Let alone be appointed to head the United States Interior department. We suggested to the Bush's campaign that a Native American should be appointed to this office for the first time in the history of the United States.

The grass roots movement of United Native America started in 1993 concerning the National Native American holiday issue, We brought this issue on the Internet the last part of June 2000, on the first of August we set up the online petition calling for a national holiday for Native Americans and Senate hearings on the exclusion of Native Americans in television, movies, sports, national news media and music industries. This petition has been well received by people all across the country and all around the world.

We are in the process of making changes in the Holiday for Native Americans petition as they are needed.