Dear Kathy,
Here is my list of requests for Bishop John Kinney:
I would like Bishop John Kinney to take the lead and be the first bishop of a diocese in the United
States of America to write and send a letter to Pope Benedict XVI asking that he, both, publicly
revoke the 15th Century Papal Bull [Inter Caetera] as well as create an official document wherein
the Holy Roman Catholic Church states that Indigenous Peoples have the same human rights as all
other peoples. Rights endowed by the Creator, including the right to have absolute root ownership of
land, the right to full independent sovereign nations status, and the religious freedom right to fully
reestablish their traditional religions within their sacred traditional and ancestral homelands.
Restoring The Fundamental Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.towahkon.org/Indigenousrights.html
Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations
http://thomas-dahlheimer.blogspot.com/2008/12/independent-
indigenous-sovereign_4100.html
Indigenous Peoples Rights
http://thomas-dahlheimer.blogspot.com/2008/12/indigenous-peoples-rights.html
Mdewakanton Activist Initiatives
http://www.towahkon.org/Dakotarights.html
An excerpt from my article Mdewakanton Activist Initiatives: I also want the Pope to revoke this
Papal Bull. And I also want him to come to Wahkon, Minnesota to formally revoke [Inter Caetera],
and do so in the presence of, both, international renowned Indigenous activists of the Western
Hemisphere and internationally renowned Indigenous activists located in other areas
of the world where this Roman Catholic Papal Bull is still hurting indigenous peoples.
United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
I would also like Bishop Kinney to ask the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) to pass a
resolution which would present the USCCB's public support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples and also call on the United States Government to vote for the Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Precedent:
New Zealand's Catholic Bishops have called on the government to support the Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to write and send a letter to the Minnesota state government asking
that it petition the federal government of the United States of America to designate some of
the Dakota people's Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed traditional and ancestral homeland - Mille Lacs
Kathio State Park- as land where they can have independent sovereign nation status and rights.
Regaining The Dakota's Mille Lacs Ancestral Homeland
http://www.towahkon.org/Regaining.html
History of the Dakota people in Minnesota
http://www.towahkon.org/Dakotahistory.html
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to write and send a letters to all of the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota tribal
governments apologizing for the Roman Catholic Church's 15th Century papal bulls that were influential
in respect to the forced removal of the last remaining members of the Dakota (Sioux) Nation within its
sacred Mille Lacs Lake ancestral homeland, where there is a Dakota/Lakota/Nakota (Dakota-Sioux)
creation story. And in the letter, I would also like for him to state his desire and mission
(hopefully it's his desire and mission) to help the Dakota people to regain a part of their sacred
Mille Lacs Lake area traditional and ancestral homeland.
Mdewakanton Rights Activist Initiatives
http://www.towahkon.org/Dakotarights.html
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to write and send a letter to the Minnesota state government wherein
he would ask that a truth and reconciliation commission be established - to seek to uncover facts
and distinguish truth from lies associated with the tragic side of Minnesota history and acknowledge
within a Minnesota Apology Resolution the pain, loss and suffering of Native Americans associated
with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission's website statement: "Yet we remain either unaware
of or unable to look at our own history and acknowledge the painful wounds of ethnocide and genocide
right here in Minnesota. We have a very hard time acknowledging that the pain remains and that it
has affected much of our history thru to the present day."
U.S. and states should establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/791464
Minnesota Apology Resolution
http://www.towahkon.org/apologyresolution.html
Euro-American Christians have not repented
http://isanti-chisagocountystar.com/read/detail/38763.html?category_id=62&search_
filter=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=%E2%8A%82_type=&town_id=15
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to write and send letters to the pastors of Catholic Churches located
along the Wakpa Wakan (Rum River) corridor within Saint Cloud Diocese. Including Catholic Churches
located in Princeton, Milaca, Onamia and Vineland. And I would also like for him to write and send a
letter to the pastors of Wahkon, Minnesota's Sacred Heart Church, a church located within the Dakota's
Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed homeland.
In these letters, I would like for him to encourage the pastors to support the effort to change
the name of the Rum River back to its sacred Dakota name, speak to their parishioners about the
Rum River name-change movement, start up social concerns commissions that will help people to
understand that the Dakota people consider the Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed to be a part of their
sacred traditional and ancestral homeland and that they are beginning to return to it, and that
there are ethical and moral issues associated with Dakota sensitivities that parishioners and
other people living and visiting within this sacred Dakota ancestral homeland should know about
and show respect toward.
Ask these pastors to write and send letters to the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota tribal councils and invite
them and representatives of theirs to come to their churches to educate parishioners about their
cultures and spiritualities. Encourage the pastors to establish cross-cultural education programs
and provide blend spirituality services. Help influence the city councils, organizations and
ministers of Protestant churches and all people living within their areas of the state to support
the efforts to change the name of the Rum River, help influence city councils to establish unity
alliances, such as an Princeton-Dakota Unity Alliance, Milaca-Dakota Unity Alliance, etc.,
alliances that will be somewhat modeled after the successful Winona-Dakota Unity Alliance.
History of the Anoka Dakota Unity Alliance
http://www.towahkon.org/alliance.html
Canoe expedition connects Dakota youth with past
http://isanticountynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3744&Itemid=27
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to write and send letters to all of the pastors of Saint Cloud Diocese
parishes that have Knights of Columbus chapters in them, and in the letters, ask them to discontinue
their parishes' KC chapters because of the organizations extremely racist name.
Genocidal Maniac Christopher Columbus
http://www.towahkon.org/ColGenocide.html
Video of mine - Protesting The Racist Name Of The Knights Of Columbus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAkWV6xd_Y
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to write and send me a letter wherein he would
express his support for my efforts to establish Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed dry
counties, and express especial social justice concerns related to the counties
within Saint Cloud Diocese. In the letter, I would also like for him to support
my Catholic social activist work to use my Rum River name-change movement to
bring back prohibition. During prohibition there was a national movement to
change the name of the Rum River - because rum (an alcohol beverage) was
considered to be a very additive and harmfull to society substance. And in
respect to this topic, I would also like for him to write and send Pope
Benedict XVI a letter wherein he would ask him to stop the use of alcohol
(wine) in the sacrament of the Eucharist within Saint Cloud Diocese and world wide.
Solving The Alcohol Abuse Epidemic
http://www.towahkon.org/sae.html
Criminalize Alcohol Near Sacred Native Sites
http://www.towahkon.org/anti-alcohol.html
National Prohibition Party's interest in Rum River name-change movement
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_literature/message/25427
Dakota Human Rights Violations In Anoka, Minnesota
http://www.towahkon.org/Dakotahumanrights.html
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I would also like Bishop Kinney to address the Minnesota Catholic Conference and ask the conference
to publicly support the passage of the bill to change our state’s geographic place names that are
derogatory and offensive to Native Americans.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2503.0.html&session=ls85
http://www.towahkon.org/StateBill.html
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take care,
Tom
