Dallas Times Herald
Wednesday, August 29, 1984
Metro/State
Photo, not shown here, captioned:
"Protesters Released - Members of a San Francisco based group
that calls itself the Rainbow Family gathered around their
"peace pole" Tuesday in a protest ceremony outside the
Dallas Police Department warehouse. The pole, which had
been confiscated during demonstrations at the Republican
convention, was returned to the group after its members
were released from jail. They were among the 97 protesters
arrested during protests last Wednesday."
[Description of the photo:] The Rainbow Family White House
Peace Pole is shown with the bottom on the ground out of
frame leaning at an angle against my Westphalia VW camper
van nosed up to the cement steps with railing at door shown
marked Quartermaster Unit and sign on the building shown
reading (City of) Dallas Police Department Property Division
1840 Chester Street.
Circled around and under the peace pole is a small group
among whom visible in the photograph from left to right
are Darryl, an African American Dallas resident with no
previous peace movement experience who helped carry
the peace pole on the "War Chest Tour" in Dallas; and
Waga, who is the youngest full-blooded member of the
Omaha native American tribe/nation which is on its way
to extinction because there are no more full-blooded
Omaha women of child bearing age left and the medicine
people who normally would teach him as a medicine way
student are all gone so he was following his own path to
learn what he needed and took part in the peace pole
events with interest as the person who put onto the
peace pole the six petaled lotus design of the Sri Sathya
Sai Baba Organization which their elder Elsie Cowan
had specifically offered for that peace pole this spiritual
unity symbol that Waga affixed in rainbow painted colors
in Albuquerque; and Dave Whitaker, San Francisco's
honorary Mayor of the Haight-Ashbury, organizer of the
Haight-Ashbury Free Kitchen, and one of the initiators
of the Rainbow Peace Caravan (along with Barry Plunker
Adams and Dana Beal of Cures not Wars in New York City,
neither shown in photo) from the California July 1-7, 1984,
Rainbow Family Gathering to the Democratic National
Convention in San Francisco (Peace Pole Camp in Golden
Gate Park) and to the Republican National Convention in
Dallas; and David Crockett Williams. About a year after
this photo a newspaper article said that the Omaha people's
"Sacred Pole" was returned to the tribe by a British museum
that it had been sent to one hundred years earlier for
safekeeping by the then Chief of the Omaha Nation whose
reason was that his people were losing their faith and he
wanted their Sacred Pole kept safe until some time in the future.
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