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Indian Cease-fire Effected; Novitiate Power Source Cut GESHAM, Wis. (UPI) -
A second outburst of gunfire ended a cease-fire Sunday night, and some 50 Indians today held a 64-room monastery for the sixth straight day. Police cut off their electricity and refused to allow deliveries of food into the building. The Shawano County district attorney's office said shooting erupted for about an hour from the closed Alexian Brothers novitiate monastery. Police siad they returned fire three times. There were no reports of injuries. The shooting ended a cease-fire the Indians and law enforcement officers agreed to earlier in the day. The Indians - men, women and children - took over the abandoned novitiate early New Year's day and demanded the building and surrounding grounds be returned to the Menominee tribe. Telephone service to the monastery was cut off last week and electricity was shut off Sunday. The Indians have asked for food, saying their supplies are running short, but authorities have refused to allow any to be delievered. Sunday's shooting - the second such outburst since the takeover - followed cancellation of planned face-to-face negotiations between the Indians and representatives of the religious order which owns the facility. Brothers Neal Bennett and Maurice Wilson, representing the Chicago-based Roman Catholic order, had planned to meet with the Indians Sunday after the cease-fire agreement was reached. But the session fell through when Neal Hawpetoss, an Indian spokesman, was told he risked losing his immunity from prosecution if he entered the novitiate. The Indians refused to see Bennett, Wilson and mediators unless Hawpetoss was present. Prior to the short-lived cease-fire, authorities declared the occupation ""an unlawful asembly"" and ordered the Indians to leave. The militants refused. The Menominee restoration Committee - official tribal goverment of the Menominees - had urged the militants to leave peacefully or at least to send the children to a safe place. ""We do not condone unlawful taking of property by anyone, be it Indian or white,"" the committee said.
Object Description
| Article Date | 1975-01-06 |
| Article Title | Indian cease-fire effected; Novitiate power source cut |
| Description | Cease-fire ended Sunday night after being negotiated earlier that day. Telephone, electricity and food supplies are cut off from the novitiate. |
| Subjects | Alexian Brothers Novitiate;Menominee Warrior Society;Gov. Patrick Lucey;Native Americans - Menominee Indians;Novitiate, Shawano County;Shawano County;Wisconsin National Guard; |
| Index Title | Shawano City-County Library Pamphlet File: Novitiate Takeover |
| Newspaper Title | Shawano Evening Leader |
| Publisher | The Shawano Leader |
| Rights | Copyright to this resource is held by the Shawano Leader and is provided here for educational purposes only. Commercial use or distribution of the image or content is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Please contact the Shawano Leader, rchristensen@shawanoleader.com, for permission to use the digital image or content. |
| Place/Time | Shawano, Wisconsin, Novitiate, 1975 |
| County | Shawano County (Wisconsin) |
| Submitting Institution | Shawano City-County Library, Shawano, Wisconsin |
| Collection | Shawano City-County Library |
| Sub-Collection | Novitiate Takeover |
| Unique ID | sl0009 |
| Type | Text |
| Medium | news clipping |
| Format | image/jpeg |
Description
| Article Title | sl000901 |
| Full Text | Indian Cease-fire Effected; Novitiate Power Source Cut GESHAM, Wis. (UPI) - A second outburst of gunfire ended a cease-fire Sunday night, and some 50 Indians today held a 64-room monastery for the sixth straight day. Police cut off their electricity and refused to allow deliveries of food into the building. The Shawano County district attorney's office said shooting erupted for about an hour from the closed Alexian Brothers novitiate monastery. Police siad they returned fire three times. There were no reports of injuries. The shooting ended a cease-fire the Indians and law enforcement officers agreed to earlier in the day. The Indians - men, women and children - took over the abandoned novitiate early New Year's day and demanded the building and surrounding grounds be returned to the Menominee tribe. Telephone service to the monastery was cut off last week and electricity was shut off Sunday. The Indians have asked for food, saying their supplies are running short, but authorities have refused to allow any to be delievered. Sunday's shooting - the second such outburst since the takeover - followed cancellation of planned face-to-face negotiations between the Indians and representatives of the religious order which owns the facility. Brothers Neal Bennett and Maurice Wilson, representing the Chicago-based Roman Catholic order, had planned to meet with the Indians Sunday after the cease-fire agreement was reached. But the session fell through when Neal Hawpetoss, an Indian spokesman, was told he risked losing his immunity from prosecution if he entered the novitiate. The Indians refused to see Bennett, Wilson and mediators unless Hawpetoss was present. Prior to the short-lived cease-fire, authorities declared the occupation ""an unlawful asembly"" and ordered the Indians to leave. The militants refused. The Menominee restoration Committee - official tribal goverment of the Menominees - had urged the militants to leave peacefully or at least to send the children to a safe place. ""We do not condone unlawful taking of property by anyone, be it Indian or white"" the committee said. |
| Publisher | The Shawano Leader |
| Rights | Copyright to this resource is held by the Shawano Leader and is provided here for educational purposes only. Commercial use or distribution of the image or content is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Please contact the Shawano Leader, rchristensen@shawanoleader.com, for permission to use the digital image or content. |
| Sub-Collection | Novitiate Takeover |
| Unique ID | sl000901 |
| Format | image/jpeg |
