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Echinacea gold rush: Curley Youpee fights to preserve an ancient legacy.
When the cold winds of winter are barely a memory for the Native Americans who live in Poplar, Montana, a flourish of the Yah'pehu, or Echinacea angustifolia, plant emerges from the new prairie grass. The arrival of this long-cherished herb should be a welcome sight, but Curley Youpee, a Sioux tribal leader at the nearby Fort Peek Reservation, knows that once the flower blooms, this lonely corner of the state will be overrun by herbal company employees and root diggers hoarding Montana's purple gold.
Since the mid-1990s, Youpee, director of Fort Peck's Tribal Cultural Resource Department, has been trying to save the plant from being overharvested. But every year, ...
- INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR MONTANA ON JULY 29: BERNARD...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 1, 2009 700+ words
...District Judge Sam E. Haddon, BERNARD NOEL YOUPEE, a 43-year-old resident of Brockton...now age 16, had been sexually abused by YOUPEE when she was nine or ten years old. The...the family residence in Brockton when YOUPEE laid down beside her and started touching...
- Reputable Herbal Companies: EN Finds Out Which Ones Really Deliver.
- Magazine article from: Environmental Nutrition Ternus, Maureen July 1, 1999 700+ words
...favored by many herbal experts. Here, EN offers a list of companies, both large and small, that we trust. EN's Choice Herbal Companies and Brands Though many companies produce quality herbs, in EN's discussions with exper ts, the following names crop...
- INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR MONTANA ON JULY 1...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 8, 2009 700+ words
...and the Rocky Boy's Tribal Law Enforcement. BERNARD NOEL YOUPEE, a 43-year-old resident of Brockton, appeared on a charge...released on special conditions. If convicted of this charge, YOUPEE faces possible penalties of life in prison, a $250,000 fine...
- A PLEA FOR HERBAL RENEWAL.
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine May 1, 1999 700+ words
...is growing scarce. Last summer Medicine Man Botanicals of Fort Peck paid local coneflower diggers $1.1 million; Curley Youpee, the reservation's cultural resources director, designed the poster above in response to the "gold-rush mentality...
- American Indian Land Advocates Oppose New Legislation.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 11, 2003 700+ words
...land interests taken from individual Indians have not been titled back to them after the 1997 Supreme Court case Babbitt v. Youpee ruled these land transfers unconstitutional. The second is to repeal the joint tenancy with right of survivorship (JTWRS...
- SUPREME COURT CALENDAR
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post December 2, 1996 700+ words
...lawsuit if a third party would be paying for any judgment against the state entity. (One hour.) No. 95-1595. Babbitt v. Youpee. Whether federal law limiting the right to transfer Indian lands after an owner's death is an unconstitutional taking under...
- Good Earth Honors Earth Day with $25,000 Giveaway.
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 12, 2009 700+ words
...delicious premium coffees and teas, ensuring a purity and authenticity in a wide variety of blends. One of the first American herbal companies and a leader in specialty tea, Good Earth Teas brings full flavored, healthy teas from around the world to the U.S...
- NEPAL'S DOMESTIC AND INT'L HERB-BASED INDUSTRY TAKES OFF.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News March 4, 2009 700+ words
...Nepal. The competition is not just from non-herbal soaps but also fake herbal soaps that use low-quality materials. Herbal companies thus opt for niche marketing, using goodwill and personal links. But the main focus is not on retail selling of the soaps...
