Midwest Save Our Ancestors Remains & Resources Indigenous Network Group
Midwest SOARRING is a Native-based, not-for-profit organization formed in 1994 to facilitate the repatriation of Native American ancestral remains and burial goods, to work for the preservation of the burial, cultural and sacred sites in Illinois and the Midwestern states, and to protect and conserve the natural environment.
The Advisory Board is made up of Maria Pearson, Yankton-Sioux, who established the first repatriation and gravesite protection law in the country, in the state of Iowa in 1976, David Lee Smith, Winnebago of Nebraska, tribal historian/repatriation representative, and Curly Bear Wagner, Blackfeet, who was the first to receive his people's remains back from the Smithsonian Institution in the late 1980's.
Joseph Standing Bear Schranz, (White Earth Ojibwe) President
Cindy Bloom, (Cherokee) Vice President
Clare Farrell, Secretary
Lee Gaede (Alabama-Coushatta)
Carl Kron
Myles Goddard (Leech Lake Ojibwe)
Amy O'Connell, Treasurer
Aanii, boozhoo,
We welcome you to Midwest Save Our Ancestors Remains & Resources Indigenous Network Group, AKA Midwest SOARRING. We established our group in 1994 to care for the needs of our ancestors, and to help preserve our Mother Earth. We invite you to explore our Web page for basic information on our organization, and for articles excerpted from our quarterly newsletter, Wings.
You can request more information regarding membership, projects and goals by contacting us at: 312 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302; phone (708) 383-6773; E-mail soarring@juno.com.
The ever-widening expanse of members who give their time and energy from the heart is what gives Midwest SOARRING its strength and power. It will endure as the People will endure.
I strongly embrace all those who struggle with like heart, for in the struggle is the victory.
Miigwech,
Joseph Standing Bear Schranz
Midwest SOARRING publishes a quarterly magazine, Wings, that carries news relating to the treatment of ancestral remains, cultural and sacred sites in the Midwest and the natural environment. The Editor is Clare Farrell.
Selections from Spring 98 Wings
Selections from Winter 97 Wings
Selections from Fall 97 Wings.
Selections from Summer 97 Wings.
Selections from Spring 97 Wings.
Selections from Winter 96 Wings.
Selections from Fall 96 Wings.
Selections from Summer 96 Wings.
Midwest SOARRING networks with representatives of Native Nations, state agencies and federal agencies to facilitate protection of ancestral remains and ancient sites.
Membership information and form
Midwest SOARRING
312 S. Oak Park Avenue
Oak Park, Illinois 60302
Telephone: 708-383-6773, Fax: 708-383-6855
E-mail: soarring@juno.com
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