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Welcome to the Revolution

2008-04-06T17:16:27Z

"We the People are the "wild card" in the deck of chaos that is waiting to be played. Our unnamed rights and how we will choose to defend them is the one "known unknown," that cannot be completely controlled by any authority. If we believe that our family's self-defense demands that we choose to form our own "militias" here in the United States, as a last resort to losing our Constitutional rights, then that is what we shall do, refusing to "go silently into the night." The Second Amendment guarantees us the right and the means to self-defense, against ANY attacker....."

http://www.rense.com/general79/revo.htm

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How amny Mi'kmaqs are on tribe???

2008-04-03T21:00:17Z

New tribe...so far just the three of us..where are the rest of U?

http://tribes.tribe.net/micmacs

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U.S. History 101

2008-03-28T00:20:28Z

Tribe: A Governmental phrase; an Anglo-American concept with Germanic roots applied to the Indigenous peoples of North America during the Reorganization Act of 1934.

Creating a "Tribe": After the Dine peoples returned to their homelands, in the late 1800s, from Bosque Redondo, where they had been held as prisoners of war following the historic Long Walk, the discovery of minerals and natural recourses was made on their land. Because of the nature of federal trusteeship, it became necessary for the Federal Government to create a "tribal" government, with "chiefs" i.e. leaders or chairmen among the Navajo. This chiefdom system of government (totally foreign to the Navajo, who are traditionally democratic) had to be created so that corporate interests could acquire official land leases from the "tribe" in order to exploit their lands.

In other-words, because reservation land is held in trust to Native communities, only those communities have the authority to let outsiders dig for Uranium and other resources on their lands. Because the majority of Native peoples during the 1930s wanted no part of such desecration, the only way the slime balls could get such blasphemous land leases out of them was to force them into creating Anglo-American-style governments. You get the idea.

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Massive Oil Deposit Could Increase US reserves by 10x

2008-03-10T19:49:07Z

Attn: Republic of Lakota Supporters

America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.

In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With new horizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was initially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 that estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottoming out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at $20-$40 a barrel.

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html

http://www.republicoflakotah.com/index.htm

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Executive Intelligence Review News Service

2008-03-09T07:32:47Z

Executive Intelligence Review News Service
check my links

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ACT NOW for isolated tribes in Peru

2008-03-06T18:04:36Z

ACT NOW for isolated tribes in Peru

www.survival-international.org/news/3067

Reports of 'encounter' between oil workers and isolated Indians

Survival International
12 February 2008

Unconfirmed reports indicate that a team prospecting for oil deep in the Peruvian Amazon has encountered a village belonging to previously-uncontacted Indians.

The men, who were working for the Canadian company Petrolifera, allegedly came across houses, paths and utensils. If the reports are true, the Indians are members of the Cacataibo tribe.

Two groups of Cacataibo Indians remain uncontacted, although their territory is cut in two by a major highway, and it has also been opened up for oil exploration by the government.

Both the Indians and the oil workers would be at grave risk from such an encounter; the Indians from catching potentially fatal diseases such as influenza, and the workers from the very real danger of retaliation by the Indians, who would see their presence as a threat.

Local Indian organizations, Survival International and many others have warned oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon to keep out of the territories of uncontacted Indians. There are at least 15 groups of isolated Indians in Peru alone.

Survival's Director Stephen Corry said today, 'If these reports are true, it's very worrying indeed. Whether true or not, this land belongs to the Indians; the UN says so, international law says so, Peruvian law agrees. The fact that the Indians are uncontacted does not lessen their rights. The company is invading Cacataibo land, and it will be responsible for the consequences.'

For more information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org

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Write a letter for the isolated Indians of Peru

Please feel free to use the following letter as a guide or write one of your own:

-- sample letter --

TO: S.E. Alan Garcia
Presidente de la República del Perú
Palacio de Gobierno
Plaza de Armas
Lima 1
Peru

[Date]

Your Excellency,

The Peruvian government should protect the isolated Indians' reserves by removing all loggers, stopping the entry of any other outsiders, and prohibiting any form of natural resource extraction on their land. It should also set up an emergency plan in case of contact between the isolated tribes and outsiders, and conform to international law by recognising the tribes' ownership of their lands. At present these isolated tribes are at huge risk and face extinction.

Yours sincerely,

[your full name + address]

-- end sample letter --

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Thank You S.O.T.Y. SAVE OUR TRIBAL YOUTH

2008-03-01T00:36:53Z

Thank You S.O.T.Y. SAVE OUR TRIBAL YOUTH
Date: Mar 1, 2008 12:47 AM

Greetings Friends of SOTY:

In addition to Pine Ridge and the Navajo reservations, SOTY is working with the Northern Cheyenne in child sponsorship - yes, we know you are all waiting and we thank you for your patience. We hear from our friends on the rez's who are putting together the lists that with winter being so hard and still on-going, the progress has been slow because just keeping up with daily life is hard enough. But thank you for your patience and understand that your desire to sponsor a child will be met soon - thank you!!

IN THE MEANTIME - IN ADDITION TO DONATIONS OF COATS AND WARM FOOTWEAR FOR PINE RIDGE (along with DONATIONS FOR FORWARDING THOSE ITEMS greatly appreciated), WE ARE GEARING UP FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS BY HELPING THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE.

PLEASE READ BELOW HOW YOU CAN HELP NOW! IT'S EASY!!! MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY AND HELP OUR TRIBAL YOUTH!!

The Northern Cheyenne have started a grass roots effort within their tribe to build a summer camp (to begin with) and an eventual on-going program for their youth. They have asked us to ask our supporters to help them begin their efforts this spring with the following easy to mail items = SEEDS!!!

The aim of the program is to teach the youth how to return to the SELF-SUSTAINING life of their ancestors and that begins with sowing seeds for their own gardens. The intention is for the gardens to also provide nutritional and nourishing food year-round for the youth and families as well.

What's needed?? They are requesting seed packets of the following items:

corn
squash (of various kinds)
beans
carrots
raddish
cabbage
lettuce
and other hearty vegetable seeds that can survive cool nights in the mountains and plains.

The camp will be in Lame Deer, Montana and they can also use whatever garden supplies or gift cards to places like Home Depot or WalMart (for building supplies) that anyone feels like sending.

YOU CAN BUY A SEED PACKET OR TWO TODAY AND PUT THEM IN AN ENVELOPE AND MAIL IT OFF. YOU CAN HELP FEED A GREAT MANY WITH A SINGLE PACKET OF SEEDS - IT'S A BEGINNING AND THEY WELCOME YOUR DESIRE TO WANT TO HELP WITH THIS SIMPLE DONATION.

Please mail your donation of vegetable seeds to:

Cheyenne Freedom Camp
PO Box 628
Lame Deer, MT 59043

We will keep you updated here on Myspace and tribe too,also on our website: www.saveourtribalyouth.com as news and progress of this project continues.

Thank you for your help and support for all our tribal youth!!

All of us at SOTY

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2008-02-26T23:43:48Z

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' WHY THE 7TH GENERATION MUST RISE TO POWER NOW! ' Mon, February 25, 2008 - 3:21 PM

' WHY THE 7TH GENERATION MUST RISE TO POWER NOW! '
BY MIKE RACCOON EYES

Greeting Cousins,

As you know for the past number of months I have writing and speaking at townhall meetings in Indian Country about the supporting the students at D.Q.
University and the issues surrounding what has been happening there.

The youth and young adults at D.Q. are in effect the current 7th Generation that attempting to rise to power in their dreams, visions and aspirations while they are being brutally denied the education, and being violated their national and international Human and Civil Rights.

The 7th Generation is trying to find their place in the 21st Century Indian Country.

As the Honorable former Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller, has stated time and time again; each generation of Native people and Nations must re-invent themselves in better order to meet the challenges of that era or generation they are in.

And the young people at D.Q are no different or an exception to the rule.

These young people are on the NEW FRONTLINES OF MORE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS FOR INDIAN COUNTRY. THEY ARE DIRECTLY IN THE FIRING LINE OF THE 'NEW INDIAN WARS '.

Devon A. Mihesuah, a Choctaw professor of History at North Arizona University in Flagstaff has a bok she has written entitled-
'American Indians-Sterotypes and Realities'

In her book she states, " Unemployment is rampant on the reservations. There is almost no private sector jobs, and those on the reservations must depend on the BIA, the tribal government or health services for jobs."

Professor Mihesuah again cites: " The number of Indian youth is increasing, yet they have the lowest rates of high school graduation."

"Many factors contribute to Indian students difficulties in school, including lack of cultural understanding and language differences between teacher and student, lack of parental involvement, and the cultural conflict between what is taught in the public schools compared to what the child learns at home."

"Another factor is children often have to travel significant distances to attend school."

She again cites, " Many federally funded schools operated by the BIA have inadequate textbooks, deteriorating dormitories, mismanaged funds, and underpaid and improperly certified teachers."

Given these overwhelming barriers that Indian youth and young adults face to get a basic high school education, we in Indian Country must view the students of D.Q. University as the new vanguard of leadership of the 7th Generation.

For they as Native young adults are re-inventing themselves to meet the brutal challenges of the 21st Century here in Indian Country.

The time for talk is now over! We must help our 7th Generation to raise to power in Indian Country NOW! D.Q. has reached the attention of the national media, it is now time for Indian Country to extend our hands out to our Native young adults and ensure that every Native youth has both a high school and college education.

From the Frontlines of D.Q.,

Wado and A-ho!

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Who wants to be a conference Indian? [repost]

2008-02-26T23:35:09Z

Who wants to be a conference Indian? [repost]
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First Nations Development Institute Announces Scholarships for the 2008 Oweesta/LEAD Conference!

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

* Must be an American Indian or an Alaska Native
* Must be working in an organization located in the western United States (CA, CO, UT, AZ, NM, MT, ID, WA, OR, NV or WY)
* Must be doing work that involves the conservation of marine resources, biological diversity or in advancing sustainable ecosystem management.

Scholarships are for up to $1,300 each and cover the following:

* Hotel room and taxes (limited to these three nights, March 17, 18 & 19). A credit card will still be needed for incidentals. (Scholarships will not cover hotel accommodations anywhere else other than the conference hotel.)
* Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for travel expenses. This includes airfare, ground transportation, meals, parking and other qualified expenses under First Nations’ travel policy.
* Conference Registration Fee of $450. Registration includes an opening reception (March 17), 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 1 dinner (March 18), conference bag, and conference materials.

The hotel is located approximately 9 miles from Denver International Airport. Complimentary airport shuttles run daily from 4:30 a.m. to midnight. The hotel is located close to many shopping and restaurant destinations. Free shuttle service is available to the Quebec Square Regional Retail Center and Northfield Shopping - home to Macy’s, Bass Pro Shop, Harkin Theatres, SuperTarget, and more. The Red Lion is located 4 miles from the Denver Coliseum that will host the 34th Annual Denver March Powwow on March 21-23, 2008.

Conference Hotel:

Red Lion Hotel Denver Central

4040 Quebec Street

Denver, Colorado 80216

303-321-6666 or (800) 733-5466

Those interested in applying for scholarship support should send an email to: mwhiteman@firstnations.org. In the email, please include:

* Full name
* Job Title
* Organization
* A paragraph explaining how you meet the criteria for the scholarship:
o Must be an American Indian or an Alaska Native
o Must be working in an organization located in the western United States (CA, CO, UT, AZ, NM, MT, ID, WA, OR, NV or WY)
o Must be doing work that involves the conservation of marine resources, biological diversity or in advancing sustainable ecosystem management.

Selections are made on a “first come, first serve” basis from qualified applicants. Scholarships are limited so it’s possible that not all applicants will receive funding.

Please contact Montoya Whiteman, Associate Director of Training & Technical Assistance, at: mwhiteman@firstnations.org or visit our website at: www.firstnations.org.

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Cree and Ojibway Legends - Our Aboriginal History

2008-02-22T17:21:40Z

Cree and Ojibway Legends - Our Aboriginal History
We Live Our Stories
We are our stories. Our stories of the land, of the environment, of our past times, of now, define our place and who we are. Our beliefs are born from living on the land for a long time. The sacred teachings come from our connection with the land, with the Great Spirit and with our forefathers.

We want to share our stories with you, our beliefs, our way of life. We live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living our stories planted in us early or along the way. We are also living the stories we planted in ourselves. We live stories that give our lives meaning. If we change the stories we live by, we change our lives.

Connections with the Land
Our beliefs are born from living on the land for a long time. The sacred teachings come from our connection with the land, with the Great Spirit and with our forefathers.

The Great Spirit is in all things; he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us, that which we put into the ground, she returns to us

Legends will always play a big role in the way we see ourselves as part of the world around us. Our stories are rooted in the history of our people. It is these legends that taught our children thew valuable lessons of surviving a harsh and often unforgiving land. We want to share our traditional stories with you so that you may hear some of our ancient history.

Cree and Ojibway Legends Part of Our Ancient Aboriginal History
For centuries, Aboriginal people sat around campfires at night, the elders passing on the ancient legends and songs. The children were taught the many happy songs of good hunting and fun times. They were also taught songs of struggle and songs of nature's powers destroying the unprepared. Some of our ancient stories are rooted from stories of other tribes too. Long ago our ancestors picked up other wisdom and adjusted the lessons to fit our culture uniquely. The Legends covered a wide variety of themes, from animals, to plants, monsters in the woods and even from things in the skies.

Story Telling and Songs Since Ancient Times
The ancient Cree and Ojibway people had what is known as a verbal culture. This means that they relied heavily on telling stories to pass information on from one generation to the next. The elders within the tribe shared the legends. It was their responsibility to keep the Aboriginal traditions alive for to not learn from its lessons often meant surviving in a harsh and unforgiving climate. It was for the children and the generations of the future that our legends have survived over the thousands of years of our existence in the James Bay Frontier.

" The legends and songs of our Native Culture was like the first literature in Canada. The first people to walk on our land told constant stories about their adventures, the ancient stories of their ancestors. The songs and stories were about every aspect of living with our land, and the characters of our land, such as the moose, beaver, rabbit, eagle and the wolf. Our wonderful beings that roam our lands with us even until today. Through stories and songs, that is how we keep our history alive and pass it on through the next generations to come. Our stories did a lot for our people. They teach, learn, and even discipline our children. A strong native story might make a child learn the consequences of ones actions or make the child feel a shame for what they have done. Within our culture, aboriginal people knew they could reflect theses stories to people and children of different cultures and of different times. " by Kieffer Bunting

The Cree call it Nabagaboo the Ojibway know it as Sasquatch
" One of our community street names is called Nabagaboo, which means Bigfoot in Cree. Bigfoot is a common legend among many diiferent ancient tribes of First Nations peoples. Each had variations to the story to reflect the own living realities. The Ojibway called them Sasquatch. Some believe that Bigfoot still roam the forests today. They say it looks like people and runs around in the woods screaming and breaking down trees. It never bothers the Native tribe though. People who have seen it looked long, tall, hairy and smelled bad. They say that he makes shelter from broken down trees to sleep at night. There have been many sightings of big foot prints in the black mud on lakeshores." by Kieffer Bunting

Nanabush
Nanabush called together all the birds and animals he could find to give them their duties. He told the beaver to build dams; bees to make honey; woodpeckers to play forest music; and so it went until all the animals had been given their duties - all except the Turtle.

When Nanabush called all the animals together, Turtle was swimming far below the lake surface. Finally, when Turtle heard what his duties would be, he sank below the surface in a sulk. As the days passed, Turtle grew angrier. One day, upon seeing a passing canoe, he shot to the surface, upset the canoe and ate the surprised Ojibway. The Ojibway was very tasty and Turtle continued attacking canoes for many days.

Nanabush, upon hearing of the strange events, suspected Turtle was angry with him, and decided to stop the strange behaviour by making Turtle do something useful. Nanabush took his bow and arrow, and seeing Turtle, fired at him. Turtle dove into the water and was narrowly missed. When diving Turtle flung his tail up in the air shooting a great spray of water high into the sky. Nanabush, using this magic, turned the spray of water into thousands of little stars, thereby creating the Milky Way.

Legends have always been used by our people to teach about the ways of the land, to teach survival lessons, to share a bit of humor on dark quiet nights, but most importantly to pass on the customs, beliefs, and traditions of our people to our children.

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THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS:

2008-02-09T04:42:24Z

THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS:
A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW
The term Genocide derives from the Latin (genos=race, tribe; cide=killing) and means literally the killing or murder of an entire tribe or people. The Oxford English Dictionary defines genocide as "the deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group" and cites the first usage of the term as R. Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, (1944) p.79. "By 'genocide' we mean the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group." The U.N. General Assembly adopted this term and defended it in 1946 as "....a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups." Most people tend to associate genocide with wholesale slaughter of a specific people. However, "the 1994 U.N. Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide describes genocide beyond outright murder of people as the destruction and extermination of culture." Article II of the convention lists five categories of activity as genocidal when directed against a specific "national, ethnic, racial, or religious group." These categories are:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of group;
Deliberately infliction on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Genocide or the deliberate extermination of one ethnic group by another is not new, for example in 1937 the Pequot Indians were exterminated by the Colonists when they burned their villages in Mystic, Connecticut, and then shot all the other people -- including women and children -- who tried to escape. The United States Government has refused to ratify the U.N. convention on genocide. There are many facets of genocide which have been implemented upon indigenous peoples of North America. The list of American genocidal policies includes: Mass-execution, Biological warfare, Forced Removal from homelands, Incarceration, Indoctrination of non-indigenous values, forced surgical sterilization of native women, Prevention of religious practices, just to name a few.

By mass-execution prior to the arrival of Columbus the land defined as the 48 contiguous states of America numbered in excess of 12 million. Four centuries later, it had been reduced by 95% (237 thousand). How? When Columbus returned in 1493 he brought a force of 17 ships. He began to implement slavery and mass-extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean. Within three years five million were dead. Fifty years later the Spanish census recorded only 200 living! Las Casas, the primary historian of the Columbian era, writes of numerous accounts of the horrendous acts that the Spanish colonists inflicted upon the indigenous people, which included hanging them en masse, roasting them on spits, hacking their children into pieces to be used as dog food, and the list continues.

This did not end with Columbus' departure, the European colonies and the newly declared United States continued similar conquests. Massacres occurred across the land such as the Wounded Knee Massacre. Not only was the method of massacre used, other methods for "Indian Removal" and "clearing" included military slaughter of tribal villages, bounties on native scalps, and biological warfare. British agents intentionally gave Tribes blankets that were intentionally contaminated with smallpox. Over 100 thousand died among the Mingo, Delaware, Shawnee and other Ohio River nations. The U.S. army followed suit and used the same method on the Plains tribal populations with similar success.

FORCED REMOVAL FROM HOMELANDS
For a brief periods after the American Revolution, the United States adopted a policy toward American Indians known as the "conquest" theory. In the Treaty of Fort Stansix of 1784, the Iroquois had to cede lands in western New York and Pennsylvania. Those Iroquois living in the United States (many had gone to Canada where the English gave them refuge) rapidly degenerated as a nation during the last decades of the eighteenth century, losing most of their remaining lands and much of their ability to cope. The Shawnees, Miamis, Delawaresm, Ottawans, Wyandots, and Potawatomis watching the decline of the Iroquois formed their own confederacy and informed the United states that the Ohio river was the boundary between their lands and those of the settlers. It was just a matter of time before further hostilities ensued.

FORCED ASSIMILATION
The Europeans saw themselves as the superior culture bringing civilization to an inferior culture. The colonial world view split reality into popular parts: good and evil, body and spirit, man and nature, head and hear, European and primitive. American Indians spirituality lacks these dualism's; language expresses the oneness of all things. God is not the transcendent Father but the Mother Earth, the Corn Mother, the Great Spirit who nourishes all It is polytheistic, believing in many gods and many levels of deity. "At the basis of most American Native beliefs is the supernatural was a profound conviction that an invisible force, a powerful spirit, permeated the entire universe and ordered the cycles of birth and death for all living things." Beyond this belief in a universal spirit, most American Indians attached supernatural qualities to animals, heavenly bodies, the seasons, dead ancestors, the elements, and geologic formations. Their world was infused with the divine - The Sacred Hoop. This was not at all a personal being presiding ominpotently over the salvation or damnation of individual people as the Europeans believed.

For the Europeans such beliefs were pagan. Thus, the conquest was rationalized as a necessary evil that would bestow upon the heathen "Indians" a moral consciousness that would redeem their amorality. The world view which converted bare economic self interest into noble, even moral, motives was a notion of Christianity as the one redemptive religion which demands fealty from all cultures. In this remaking of the American Indians the impetus which drove the conquistador's invading wars not exploration, but the drive to expand an empire, not discovery of new land, but the drive to accumulate treasure, land and cheap labor.

CULTURE
Culture is the expression of a people's creativity -- everything they make which is distinctively theirs: language, music, art, religion, healing, agriculture, cooking style, the institutions governing social life. To suppress culture is to aim a cannonball at the people's heart and spirit. Such a conquest is more accomplished than a massacre. "We have seen the colonization materially kills the colonized. It must be added that it kills him spiritually. Colonization distorts relationships, destroys and petrifies institutions, and corrupts....both colonizers and the colonized."

Strategies of targeting American Indian children for assimilation began with violence. Forts were erected by Jesuits, in which indigenous youths were incarcerated, indoctrinated with non-indigenous Christian values, and forced into manual labor. Schooling provided a crucial tool in changing not only the language but the culture of impressionable young people. In boarding schools students could be immersed in a 24 hours bath of assimilation. "The founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania , Capt. Richard H. Pratt, observed in 1892 that Carlisle has always planted treason to the tribe and loyalty to the nation at large. More crudely put, the Carlisle philosophy was, "Kill the Indian to save the man." At the boarding schools children were forbidden to speak their native languages, forced to shed familiar clothing for uniforms, cut their hair and subjected to harsh discipline. Children who had seldom heard an unkind word spoken to them were all too often verbally and physically abused by their white teachers. In short, "there was a full-scale attempt at deracination -- the uprooting or destruction of a race and its culture." A few American Indian children were able to run away, others died of illness and some died of homesickness.

The children, forcibly separated from their parents by soldiers often never saw their families until later in their adulthood, after their value-system and knowledge had been supplanted with colonial thinking. When these children returned from boarding schools they no longer knew their native language, they were strangers in their own world, there was a loss, a void of not belonging in the native world, nor the white man's world. In the movie "Lakota Women," these children are referred to as "Apple Children [red on the outside, white on the inside]" they do not know where they fit in, they were unable to assimilate into either culture. This confusion and loss of cultural identity, leads to suicide, drinking and violence. The most destructive aspect of alienation is the loss of power, of control over one's destiny, over one's memories, through relationships -- past and future.

Jose Noriega's well-documented historical account of the forced indoctrination of colonial thought into the minds of American Indian children as a means of disrupting the generational transmission of cultural values, clearly demonstrates the cultural genocide employed by the U.S. government as a means of separating the American Indians from their land.

FORCED REMOVAL
The "Indian Removal" policy was implemented to "clear" land for white settlers. Removal was more than another assault on American Indians' land titles. Insatiable greed for land remained a primary consideration, but many people now believed that the removal was the only way of saving American Indians from extermination. As long as the American Indians lived in close proximity to non-Native American communities, they would be decimated by disease, alcohol, and poverty. The Indian Removal Act began in 1830. Forced marches at bayonet-point to relocation settlements resulted in high mortality rates. The infamous removal of the Five Civilized Tribes -- the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Seminoles -- is a dismal page in United States history. By the 1820's the Cherokees, who had established a written constitution modeled after the United States Constitution, a newspaper, schools, and industries in their settlements, resisted removal. In 1938 the federal troops evicted the Cherokees. Approximately four thousand Cherokees died during the removal process because of poor planning by the United States Government. This exodus to Indian Territory is known as the Trail of Tears. More than one hundred thousand American Indians eventually crossed the Mississippi River under the authority of the Indian Removal Act.

STERILIZATION
Article II of United Nations General Assembly resolution, 1946: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as such: (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. In the mid-1970s a Choctaw-Tsalagi Indian Health Services doctor was approached by a 26-year-old American Indian woman who desired a "wonb transplant." She had been sterilized when she was 20 at the Indian Health Service hospital in Claremont, Oklahoma. It was discoverd that 75 percent of the Claremont sterilizations were non-therapeutic, that women American Indians were being prompted to sign sterilization forms they didn't understand, that they were being told the operations were reversible, and that some women were even being asked to sign sterilization papers while they had yet to come out of birthing sedation.

Common Sense magazine reported that the Indian Health Service "was sterilizing 3,000 Indian women per year, 4 to 6 percent of the child bearing population...Dr. R. T. Ravenholt, [then] director of the federal government's Office of Population, later confirmed that 'surgical sterilization has become increasingly important in recent years as one of the advanced methods of fertility management'." Ravenholt's response to these inquires "told the population Association of America in St. Louis that the critics were 'a really radical extremist group lashing out at a responsible program so that revolution would occur'."

From the beginning of European control there has been an unrelenting drive to commit genocide over another culture. The American Indians were a majority so the Europeans called them an enemy. One of the major facts the United States Government has failed to understand is that the spiritual aspect of life is inseparable from the economic and the political aspects. The loss of tradition and memory will be the loss of positive sense of self. Those reared in traditional American Native societies are inclined to relate events and experiences to one another, they do not organize perceptions or external events in terms of dualities or priorities. This egalitarianism is reflected in the structure of American Indian literature, which does not rely on conflict, crises, and resolution for organization.

INTELLECTUAL RICHES
American Indians felt comfortable with the environment, close to the moods and rhythms of nature, in time with the living planet. Europeans were quite different, viewing the earth itself as lifeless and inorganic, subject to any kind of manipulation or alteration. Europeans tended to be alienated from nature and came to the New World to use the wilderness, to conquer and exploit its natural wealth for private gain.

But for American Indians, the environment was sacred, possessing a cosmic significance equal to its material riches. The earth was sacred -- a haven for all forms of life -- and it had to be protected, nourished, and even worshipped. Chief Smoholla of the Wanapun tribe illustrated American Native reverence for the earth when he said in 1885:

"God said he was the father of and earth was the mankind; that nature was the law; that the animals, and fish and plants beyond nature, and that man only was sinful.
You ask me to plow the ground! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom?

Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig under her skin for her bones?

Then When I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.

You ask me to cut grass And make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men!

But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?

American Indians' agricultural and medical wisdom had been ignored by the European invaders. In their rush to control the land and people much has passed them by and much has been destroyed. Sadly, what seems to have been almost totally ignored is the American Indians' knowledge that the Earth is their mother. Because their mother continues to give us life we must care for and respect her. This was a ecological view of the earth.

"There are tens of millions of people around the world who, within only the last few centuries -- and some cases only the last few years -- have seen their successful societies brutally assaulted by ugly destructive forces. Some American Indian societies have been obliterated. Some peoples have suffered separation from the source of their survival, wisdom, power, and identity: their lands. Some have fallen from the pressure, compromised, moved to urban landscapes, and disappeared, but millions of American Indians, including tens of thousands here in the United States, have gained strength in the face of all their adversity. Their strength is rooted in the earth and deserves to succeed."

In writing this paper I have attempted to broaden your knowledge of genocide and American Indians. This is not a complete history of the genocide that has occurred in the United States, nor is it meant to be.

Books used for references and internet addresses:

Mander, Jerry, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations," Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1992: 349.
Mankiller, Wilma and Wallis, M., A Chief and Her People, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993: 8.
Memi, Albert, The Colonizer and the Colonized, Boston: Beacon Press, 1965: 151.
Olson, James and Wilson, R., Native American, In the Twentieth Century, University Press, 1988, 11.
The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Through Indian Eyes, Pleasantville, New York/Montreal, 1995: 338.
Susan Brill, Bradley U. (brill@bradley.edu) Discussion group regarding the genocide of Native peoples.
http://www.igc.apc.org/toxic/
http://conbio.bio.uci.edu/nae/knudsen.html
Federal Indian Policy http://mercury.sfsu.edu.cypher.genocide.html.#children
Trail of Tears http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
*This is the history of my people “The 1st Nation” The Indigenous People of this Land*
now that you have leaned about what it is to be a Native (Indigenous) American, seek out your history of were you come from – Before you say your native at hart -

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INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY & RESISTANCE

2008-02-03T00:41:44Z

INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY & RESISTANCE
A revolutionary movement that does not address the reality of the original inhabitants of the land is a movement doomed to failure. We believe that one of the reasons that past revolutionary movements have failed miserably in their attempts to create a free, egalitarian society, is because they have not adequately addressed issues concerning the right of indigenous peoples to secession, sovereignty, or self-determination.
Movements that don't attempt to build egalitarian relations with Indigenous communities and assist them in their struggles for autonomy will never have the support of those communities. In fact, if a supposedly "revolutionary" movement does not address the issue of de- colonization, it will most likely only contribute to the marginalizing of Native peoples and turn them into enemies.

State-communist movements have been outright genocidal in their practice towards indigenous peoples. These movements regard indigenous peoples as "pre-capitalist" artifacts that stand in the way of socialist evolution and industrial progress. The conditions faced by indigenous people's under "revolutionary" "communist" governments and proto-governments in Russia, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Peru, Columbia, and elsewhere, have differed very minimally from the oppressive conditions they faced under capitalist governments.
The anarchist movement does not share the communist movement's gross history of subjugating indigenous peoples, but anarchists have largely failed to address the reality of indigenous peoples at all. This is extremely unfortunate because the anarchist movement finds natural allies in the Indigenous sovereignty movement.
Many anarchists regard Native issues as "nationalist" and therefore irrelevant. This is extremely flawed because it holds that any distinct culture that takes action against a colonial power is "nationalist". Some Indigenous movements are indeed "nationalistic" - but usually not in the sense of a nation-state, but rather in terms of a distinct culture with distinct customs that has the right to exist freely within its own bioregion. The efforts of Native peoples to declare their sovereignty is often fully consistent with the anarchist desire for decentralization.
Our movement needs to realize that the struggles of Native peoples are issues that should be of major concern to all who consider themselves opponents of oppression. Indigenous peoples have always engaged in struggles against the state, industrial expansionism, and corporate exploitation. They are the only communities that have maintained a relatively harmonious relationship with the natural world. They have and continue to wage impressive battles against the status-quo. These battles often have the objective of forcing corporations off of sacred land, rejecting the arbitrarily imposed laws and ordinances of the State, and ending industrial developments which threaten the well-being of humans and animals. These issues are fully consistent with anarchism, and here we find the potential for powerful alliances between sincere anarchists and radical ecologists, and Native peoples.

Anarchist solidarity with Native peoples must not resemble, in any shape or form, the "solidarity" of "New-Age" cultural appropriationists - whose idea of "solidarity" with Natives really consists of stealing their traditions and exploiting them for personal gain and profits. Rather, anarchist solidarity with Natives must be genuine, concrete, and, most importantly, egalitarian. When our support is welcomed by them, we should accept it and join them on the frontlines in the battle against colonial domination

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Al Queda targeting Native outh?

2008-02-01T03:05:59Z

Subject: Al Quaeda recruiting young people from the Nations to the UK
Hi Lil Sis...I had a very disturbing email from a lady who is of the Poarch/Creek Nation in the US. It appears her daughter who is 26 years old has been talking to a guy on the internet for the last six months and intends to fly to the UK at the end of next month to be with him. The mother is concerned as she spoke to her local FBI branch there in Florida and they have said he is a known Al Quaeda activist in the UK. My concern is that these extremists are preying on our vulnerable youngsters who may be looking for a way out of the rez or their homelife. Would you be able to put out a warning to the schools/band councils to warn of the dangers of what these people might offer to entice the Nations vulnerable young people away from home and safety? And of course to spread the word to whoever they know in other Nations..it is a very real danger.
Welalin Lil Sis..
Big Sis..

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Lakota Freedom

2007-12-31T22:15:06Z

We would like to make a special acknowledgement of all the Indigenous Nations and Independence Movements who have contacted us with their support.

Aho! We've had more than half a million hits on our website in one week! Thanks for your interest and support!

Pilameya! Many thanks to all people who are sharing their support and solidarity with us. People from more than 100 different nations have visited our website. The whole world is watching!

http://www.lakotafreedom.com/

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News from the Northeast~Yes we are still here ; )

2007-12-31T05:16:50Z

Nora Bernard Aboriginal activist is found dead in her home and
police are now suspecting foul play.

December 16, 2006

By David Rodenhiser
The Daily News
"Bitter fight comes to end"

Millbrook's Nora Bernard played key role in multibillion- dollar
native-school settlement

They picked the wrong kid to mess with when they dragged nine-year-
old Nora Bernard off to the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in 1945.

Sixty-one years later, the determined Millbrook woman has won
what's being called the largest class-action settlement in Canadian
history - worth somewhere between $4 billion and $5 billion - for
an estimated 79,000 survivors of the residential school system.

"I just want to tell the survivors that I am so happy for them that
this is over," Bernard, 71, said yesterday. "I love every one of
them."

The first lawsuits over abuse suffered at residential schools were
filed in 1990. But there was no consolidated effort until five
years later when Bernard convinced Halifax lawyer John McKiggan to
represent her and other Shubenacadie survivors in a class-action
suit.

"I firmly believe that if it wasn't for Nora's efforts, and other
survivors like her across Canada, this national settlement never
would have happened," McKiggan said.

"After we filed our lawsuit, a number of other students from other
schools filed similar class actions. Those class actions eventually
merged into the one national class action that has now been
approved by the courts."

Only two left

Judges in 10 provinces and the Yukon endorsed the settlement
yesterday, leaving Nunavut and the Northwest Territories as the
only jurisdictions left to OK the deal.

In his written decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Warren
Winkler described the residential school system as a "seriously
flawed failure." His verdict included the Shubenacadie survivors.

"The effects of the residential school legacy were lasting and
profound," Winkler wrote.

Bernard, her three sisters and two brothers all went to the
Shubenacadie school. She spent five years there; her youngest
sister, nine.

"It was no place for a child," she recalled. "Once you entered
those big doors in the front and they slammed behind you, it was just
like going into a prison."

A federal Indian agent threatened Bernard's mother into turning the
kids over to the school, warning that if she didn't sign the
papers, the welfare system would apprehend the children.

It was a common experience. Noel Knockwood, now 74, went to the
Shubenacadie school in 1939 after an Indian agent threatened to
jail his father. McKiggan said he has clients who were taken away by
Indian agents while Mounties held their parents at bay at gunpoint.

The Roman Catholic Church operated the Shubenacadie school for most
of its existence. It opened in 1930 and finally closed in 1967. It
took in aboriginal children from the Maritime provinces,
Newfoundland and parts of Quebec.

As Knockwood describes it, the goal of the residential school
system, which dated back to the late 1800s, was "cultural genocide."

"They were trying to get rid of what Parliament referred to as 'the
Indian problem' by assimilating aboriginal people into Canadian
culture, so that they would no longer have to spend money on the
Department of Indian Affairs and on reserves," McKiggan
explained. "It is an incredibly sad part of Canadian history."

At Shubenacadie, the kids weren't allowed to speak the Mi'kmaq
language. Disobedience often resulted in a slap across the mouth by
one of the Sisters of Charity.

"The goal was to take our culture and our language away from us,"
Bernard said. "Also, what they were doing was training us as
domestic help. The boys were trained for farm work."

Effects still felt

She and Knockwood, a Mi'kmaq spiritual leader, were able to retain
their language. Others were not, and met with ostracism when they
returned to the reserve.

The hurt caused by this attack on their culture has rippled down
through the generations.

Knockwood credits Bernard with making "a tremendous contribution to
Canada as a whole in standing up for liberty and justice and
freedom." He says she deserves the Aboriginal Achievement Award.
Bernard, though, remains humble.

"I guess, probably, I have a real big heart," she laughs.

But, when asked what inspired her battle, she's suddenly serious.

"Justice," Bernard replies without hesitation. "I wanted justice
for
my First Nations people that attended the residential schools - not
only down here - throughout Canada."

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Wounded Knee Massacre

2007-12-29T17:18:17Z

Today is the anniversary of Wonded Knee Massacre, in which 500 Infantry soldiers massacred our brothers and sisters. How are you honoring this day? How will you honor this day? Are you doing anything in honor of our Brothers and Sisters?

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Wolves in Danger

2007-12-28T19:24:11Z

28,000 concerned signatures needed!!!!!

While most Americans have been celebrating the holidays, officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration have been working behind the scenes to pave the way for the killing of hundreds of wolves in the Greater Yellowstone area.

We can't let them get away with it!

Please go to Defenders of Wildlife's website to send a message to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and urge him to abandon efforts to let states start killing wolves and to delay de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies:

action.defenders.org/sneakattack

Over the last several weeks, officials within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been quietly moving forward with rule changes that would allow officials in Idaho and Wyoming to begin killing wolves -- even before gray wolves are removed from the list of federally protected threatened and endangered species.

This latest proposal would jump start plans to use fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and other means to kill hundreds of wolves, leaving few more than 200 of the wolves in Idaho. In fact, three-quarters of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest could be removed... even before they are de-listed.

And, unfortunately, it's not just Idaho's wolves that are threatened by the proposal. Hundreds of wolves in Wyoming could be shot and trapped under the new rules -- whether wolves are removed from the endangered and threatened species list or not.

A decision on the proposal is expected in the next few weeks. Please email Secretary Kempthorne right now and let him know that you oppose any proposal that would threaten the long-term future of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone Region.

Take action online now at:

action.defenders.org/sneakattack

Thanks so much for helping me save wolves!
To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy
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Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children

2007-12-27T14:06:36Z

MEDIA ADVISORY
Immediate Release: 24 December 2007

Media Contacts:
Naomi Archer, Communications Liaison (828) 230-1404 lakotafree [at] gmail.com

Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children

Sovereignty Action Sparks World Discussion, Disagreement, Inspiration

Lakota - What began as sparsely attended press conference announcing Lakota sovereignty has grown into an international roar of freedom inspiring people on every continent and sparking excitement and discussion in homes, tribal councils, schools, and on internet blogs and message boards. Across Indian Country in particular, the impact of the sovereign action is creating both inspiration and concern as the reality of freedom sinks in.

But mixed with the excitement and joy are concerns the Lakota people's needs will not be fully met, especially needs and concerns of the youth.

Lakota Freedom delegate and Oglala Lakota Cante Tenza - Strongheart Warrior Society leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) issued the following statement after discussion with the Strongheart Grandmothers:

"The whole Lakota declaration of withdrawal from the treaty is vested on the power of the Lakota people and our children.

When we undertook the process of announcing the withdrawal, the capacity was far greater than most people anticipated about an individual. But throughout our history, the people have never excluded anyone within their own lifeway and when it becomes a listener's view that its about one individual, one individual does not represent the nation itself, the nation represents the individual, and that is Lakota.

The withdrawal is for the people, the Elders, mothers, fathers, and the children.

Throughout our history and through the enforcement of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Congress said they would oversee the provisions of 1868 (Fort Laramie Treaty), but they failed to do so. Some minor provisions were kept, but overall the treaty was not honored. Because if the treaty was honored, we would not have this colonial catastrophe of alcoholism, drug abuse and poverty and we wouldn't have the overall high incarceration rate of the male and female in the prison populations. This leads to our children being taking away by Social Services which puts our children out of balance from learning the traditional lifeway.

When the children can reconnect with who they are, they come back to the process of knowing what is Lakota in the true point of view. In this true point of view Lakota is about being free and left alone, so we can govern and save our own with the teachings of the Animal Nations.

If we can conclude with this statement in the positive venue, its not about Russell Means, and certainly not about Canupa Gluha Mani or any individual, this about the Lakota Nation and the Animal People who are no longer alone."

We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have withdrawn from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at www.lakotafreedom.com.

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The Reality of Pine Ridge

2007-12-27T14:03:28Z

Below is a letter that I got from a friend of mine from Pine Ridge. All of the names that were enclosed have been edited to keep my friends anonymity. Life is hell for them....she writes me almost everyday to keep me up to speed. We try to help but we are alone in this movement and money is low for us to help them. ************

Hey there~,
It's a cold day in hell here!!I'm hoping I don't run out of propane soon,the tank is on empty and we are on fumes!!I never made it to Rapid City!or Wal Mart for Christmas....no gas!!.......besides my daughter Worm is being stubborn and unforgiving!!I kicked her out cause she didn't listen to me, she's in a very unhealthy friendship with a this cousin of hers! and she's on her way to self destruction!she's drunk all the time,going to bars and getting pushed around by my niece!!I'm going to let her have it when I see her!!stupid little shit thinks I don't know about him taking advantage of my daughter !! I don't give a goddamn if she's needy,!!I confronted my daughter about her cousin and she told me to stay out of her life!!
Ohhhh! I'm so pissed off that I just want to kick her ass when I see her!
I was so pissed when he tried to hang himself in front of my daughter, he says nobody likes him or cares about her anyway!! I almost fell for that bullshit but now I know different!! Well enough of that!! I'm tired of thinking about this........it makes me sick that my daughter may someday take her own life because nobody likes or cares about her!!!
So how was your Christmas?? did you cook?? I volunteered my time to cook, but before I got there the 'special' volunteers took all the good presents, you know who I mean, and all her people I didn't go for the gifts, just the dinner Monday night...because the vice-president decided not to pass out the presents that same evening..What an ass hole!! nothing ever goes right here! besides half the presents were stolen!!
Again!! You know they would rip off their own mother just to get what they want in life ,like the evil sisters I told you about!! Somebody told our community chair that they received a donation of $600,but they were at the Lakota Nation Indian tournaments, and was spending money that was given to the kids here!! Geez!! everyone goes nuts over money even if its intended for the children...Well I hope you had a better holiday than I did!! I hope everyone gets what's coming to them!! Later...signing off from this place I know as hell........M!!

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Reign of Terror

2007-12-25T00:05:24Z

Bill Means of the American Indian Movement describes the "reign of terror" on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the early 1970's. Highest murder rate in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m98zF9ibaA

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Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta ($27.5 Trillion Man) Libertarian / Lakota Sioux ?

2007-12-23T23:19:39Z

Confidential sources have confirmed that the $27.5 Trillion Man, Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta, has expressed interest in the viability of a third party system (Independent / Libertarian) and the Presidential candidacy of Ron Paul (Congressman - Texas).

A hero of the Cold War, the Ambassador was in charge of a covert financial warfare operation ordered by Pres Reagan which led to the collapse of the Soviet currency and banking. By the early 1990's as Trustee of Ameritrust Group, Inc, the Ambassador amassed $27.5 trillion in assets.

"Under Reagan's Executive Order 12333 of 1981, US intelligence officers were permitted to establish corporations which could thereafter contract with the CIA/DIA/DEA/NSA et al for the purpose of fulfilling allotted intelligence tasks allocated to them.The financial proceeds of operations conducted by such corporations were consequently the property of the corporations and thus of their shareholders, a legal fact of life which has never been, and cannot be, disputed. This was not a good idea because almost all US intelligence operatives are liars and do not function on the basis of the Rule of Law at all, if they can help it.

Lee Wanta is the well-known patriotic exception to this rule: he operates solely in accordance with US law, in contrast to the behaviour of other US operatives, which is why the kakocracy* needed to remove him from the scene, as duly occurred July 1993.Once Wanta had been illegally arrested (contrary to international law, as a diplomat) and then thrown into a stinking Swiss jail on 7th July 1993, the criminal cadres inside the US official structures immediately ransacked Mr Wanta's bank accounts according to plan..."
http://www.worldreports.org/news/107_warring_israeli_intel_threatens_rubin_with_death

Confidential sources have also confirmed that the Ambassador has expressed interest in a proposed "tax free" Sovereign Lakota Sioux Nation covering a 5 State region where he might invest his $4.5 trillion settlement. www.lakotafreedom.com/

Stay Tuned.....

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amazing and wonderful news

2007-12-22T23:40:34Z

http://english.sabah.com.tr/95885BFE6D334D0A98F484F481153EBD.html

The Lakota Indian Nations are withdrawing from the USA and forming a country of their own.
I for one am so impressed by this , afterall the indigenous north american indians were robbed of their country and treated appallingly by colonial invaders.

I wish the strong hearted and capable nations every success with their new venture. They deserve to have their country back and live the way they want to !

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Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans

2007-12-22T17:44:25Z

And So It Begins

In an incredible irony, the very people that the United States have most oppressed throughout our history may hold the key to freedom for all of us.

Few Americans remember the siege at Wounded Knee in the mid-1970s, but perhaps they should. Members of the AIM, or the American Indian Movement, occupied parts of Pine Ridge in protest over the brutal killings of two of their own, the disgustingly mild prosecutions for those murders, and the beating of the mother of one of those two when she attempted to seek justice from the U.S. government. The AIM were seeking their rights under U.S. law and for the U.S. government to honor treaties with the American Indian that had been ignored for more than a century. It was a lawful - and a peaceful until attacked - protest.

In response, the FBI fired almost 200,000 rounds at the protesters (the protesters did fire weapons in their own defense, but only over their attackers' heads) in an illegal show of force that betrayed every ideal of real freedom. The siege at Wounded Knee lasted 71 days. This was Waco decades before Waco, largely ignored by the U.S. population due to media indifference and the fact that the victims were not white Americans.

Later, the defense team for Russell Means and Dennis Banks was infiltrated by a government informant, which led to perjured testimony and a very angry judge who stated that the government was more interested in convictions than in justice. South Dakota Judge Nichols was quoted as saying, "It's hard for me to believe that the FBI, which I have revered for so long, has stooped so low," and dismissed all charges against the defendants.

Apparently, all those years ago, at least a portion of our justice system still operated as it was designed to do.

Leonard Peltier was not so lucky. He was tried in North Dakota, and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison. He remains there today, even though evidence recovered after the siege clearly showed that the two FBI deaths were attributable to friendly fire. During his years in prison, through his art and letters, Peltier has continued to work for oppressed people everywhere.

Russell Means has remained free, and he has not been idle in the intervening decades. A committed libertarian, he has written several books, run for office on the Libertarian ticket, and continued to pursue a film career that has made him a household face and name. Apart from that, he has bided his time, waiting for just the right moment in history.

That moment has come. In September of this year, the United Nations passed a non-binding Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Naturally, Canada, the United States and Australia refused to sign, but this resolution paved the way for a move that has been waiting in the wings, so to speak, since the 1970s.

On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia, Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the United States of America.

Means stated, "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us." The lands of the Lakota Sioux encompass portions of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. In the coming weeks, they will take their diplomatic mission overseas to seek further support.

Means also stated that anyone willing to renounce their U.S. citizenship would live on Lakota land tax free, and that the Lakota would issue their own passports and driving licenses. Since a large group of libertarians have recently moved to Wyoming, this opens up some interesting possibilities for a free society growing up in our midst.

The coming road will not be an easy one. I cannot see the U.S. neo-conservatives leaving this alone. I imagine that there will be another bloody and vicious siege taking place on Lakota land, but I also believe that Means has timed his move correctly. If this happens as I fear it will, the neo-conservatives will be the clear authors of their own destruction. The American people have had enough!

You go, Russell!! You are the bravest and best of us, and the sanest and best of America stands with you in the trials you will face over the coming months and years.
_________________________
Kathryn A. Graham, author of Flight From Eden and America Hijacked!.

http://readerrant.capitolhillblue.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=44184

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HAKU!

2007-12-21T23:55:23Z

Warm Greetings! I simply wanted to say hello in an official way . Not wanting to be a lurker.
My given name is Judy Talaugon.
Like a good number of folks - I am not always online nor am I sophistocated about it all.
I believe after much deliberation (observation) I feel safe here (yay!)

Again thanks to our moderator for being resilient and having a good and generous heart!

I'll be around!
Stop by my profile and say hello!

Blessings,
t-aya
Judy Talaugon

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Putin Threatens Recognition of Breakaway US Lakota Sioux Indian Tribe

2007-12-21T21:09:40Z

"Reports circulating in the Kremlin today state that an enraged President Putin has ordered Russian Foreign Ministry Officials to begin the processes needed for Russia to recognize the Lakota Sioux Indian Tribe as an independent Nation, and who have now broken away from the United States by renouncing their treaties with their occupiers, and as we can read as reported by the AFP News Service:"

article by Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1057.htm

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Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status

2007-12-21T03:24:24Z

MEDIA ADVISORY
Immediate Release: 19 December 2007

Media Contacts:
Naomi Archer, Communications Liaison (828) 230-1404 lakotafree [at] gmail.com

Freedom! Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status

Threaten Land Liens, Contested Real Estate Over Five State Area in U.S. West

Lakota Satisfies Treaty Council Mandate of 33 Years, Drafted by 97 Indigenous Nations

Dakota Territory Reverts back to Lakota Control According to U.S., International Law

Washington D.C. – Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status today in Washington D.C. following Monday’s withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming.

“This is an historic day for our Lakota people,” declared Russell Means, Itacan of Lakota. “United States colonial rule is at its end!”

“Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit,” shared Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee. “They never honored the treaties, that’s the reason we are here today.”

The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.

“In order to stop the continuous taking of our resources – people, land, water and children- we have no choice but to claim our own destiny,” said Phyllis Young, a former Indigenous representative to the United Nations and representative from Standing Rock.

Property ownership in the five state area of Lakota now takes center stage. Parts of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have been illegally homesteaded for years despite knowledge of Lakota as predecessor sovereign [historic owner]. Lakota representatives say if the United States does not enter into immediate diplomatic negotiations, liens will be filed on real estate transactions in the five state region, clouding title over literally thousands of square miles of land and property.

Young added, “The actions of Lakota are not intended to embarrass the United States but to simply save the lives of our people”.

Following Monday’s withdrawal at the State Department, the four Lakota Itacan representatives have been meeting with foreign embassy officials in order to hasten their official return to the Family of Nations.

Lakota’s efforts are gaining traction as Bolivia, home to Indigenous President Evo Morales, shared they are “very, very interested in the Lakota case” while Venezuela received the Lakota delegation with “respect and solidarity.”

“Our meetings have been fruitful and we hope to work with these countries for better relations,” explained Garry Rowland. “As a nation, we have equal status within the national community.”

Education, energy and justice now take top priority in emerging Lakota. “Cultural immersion education is crucial as a next step to protect our language, culture and sovereignty,” said Means. “Energy independence using solar, wind, geothermal, and sugar beets enables Lakota to protect our freedom and provide electricity and heating to our people.”

The Lakota reservations are among the most impoverished areas in North America, a shameful legacy of broken treaties and apartheid policies. Lakota has the highest death rate in the United States and Lakota men have the lowest life expectancy of any nation on earth, excluding AIDS, at approximately 44 years. Lakota infant mortality rate is five times the United States average and teen suicide rates 150% more than national average . 97% of Lakota people live below the poverty line and unemployment hovers near 85%.

“After 150 years of colonial enforcement, when you back people into a corner there is only one alternative,” emphasized Duane Martin Sr. “The only alternative is to bring freedom into its existence by taking it back to the love of freedom, to our lifeway.”

We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system we have been forced to live under. We are in Washington DC to withdraw from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at www.lakotafreedom.com.

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hello!

2007-12-12T17:41:11Z

Any Powwow dancers out there?

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Gathering of Nations - Radio~

2007-12-12T17:39:19Z

http://www.gatheringofnations.com/gonradio/

wonderful selection of music..from tribal drums to contemporary..~

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MYSTICISM

2007-11-30T22:10:04Z

COMMONALITY AMONGST THE WORLD'S MYSTICS:

If you study the life of past mystics you'll find they share several things in common:

First, they all speak of an induction – or of a need to learn/realize a new level of understanding. They all speak of a fundamental shift in consciousness (be it called awakening, realization, divination, or being born again).

Second they all tell of making a journey into and through a despair process of being “undone” as the precursor to this fundamental shift in consciousness -- be it through experiencing 40 days and nights in the wilderness, starving under the boddhi tree, facing the dark night of the soul, or the hero’s journey. There is a Journey of metamorphosis that all mystics have undergone in some way.

Third, it is an inner journey that must be taken up and navigated alone. This is a hallmark of the mystic’s realization: The reason the journey must be alone is because that which must be faced, seen, and surrendered in order that something new can emerge, is only possible through sustaining the fear and despair process of being alone and meeting the ultimate and fundamental fear of “non-being” and annihilation.

Fourth, they all seem to realize the frustration of being misunderstood by those who have not yet been through the awakening journey -- “those who have ears to hear, let him hear.” A great deal of the mystical writings are devoted almost exclusively to the fact that fundamental spiritual truth cannot be understood by the intellect nor correctly put into words. Forever, the great spiritual teachers have tried through the insufficiency of words to point toward that which can ever and only be experienced and known on a level that is before and beyond the mind. This is something unfathomable to those who have not yet had this breakthrough revelation - and particularly so in our contemporary culture that has become so overly reliant and blinded by the limiting paradigm of the scientific method that forever reduces our understanding of intelligence to that which is sensory, measurable and linear in nature. (...Life isn't (only or always) linear .. In fact it rarely is, except in man-made constructions and habituated uses of the mind.)I.E the crystal skulls

Please join us at this forum
http://groups.msn.com/TheInternationalMysticalOrderofKnightTemplars/_whatsnew.msnw

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Arrogant europeon assumptions? Or?

2007-10-23T01:37:20Z

Hey, i'm a non-indigenous european person and i've been having a discussion with an elder lady friend about the topic of exactly what indigenous folks were like compared with europeans, and whether there was always a shared mentality of severe alienation in both cultures, and here's what she said to me...(i'm looking for insights from others, including possible proofs or info leading us to seeing such)

>Please I don't mean to offend you.,
but the reality exists that long before europeans came to this
continent that war, starvation, incest, slavery and genocide was a
reality for the people. There has always been inhumanity in every
cultuer and indeed the natives were particularily ruthless and felt
justified by there culture.... that europeans were so capable of
overpowering thier foes had alot to do with the developement of steel
and manufacturing, but the mentality of consciousness is universal
and although the european culture was colonistic they did not/ do not
hold the strings of brutality and even within european cultures there
existed a great deal of enlightenment.... Also let us not forget the
stong hold and influence of the church which is probably much more
influencial than any european country ...
---
i replied:

Where do you get this information, S? How do you know these things for certain? How can a european know what happened long before europeans were here?

Oh, yes, you are partially indigenous; yet what does that really mean if you look only through the lens of the european way of seeing? (a way that has, by the way, systematically utilized fraud and sleight-of-hand to conceal its own history not only during conquest of the indigenous people here, but also on *every* topic after "legally" securing this land). Every topic you can think of, i bet that there is a long history of suppression of truths that simply are not allowed.

Some questions:
Where do you get the idea that the original natives practiced genocide against each other?

What does slavery really mean between varying cultures, and do severely alienated cultures like european cultures truly have similar ways of seeing these things? After all, indigenous folks never had *wage slavery* (they tended to look out for each other, realizing the value, i see and think); nor did they have all of these long lists of ways to keep some marginalized while others, via deceit, gained wealth!

Why is starvation spoken here? If a group, say the Irish, die of a "potato famine" is there a context that is deeper? How about when others,
say indigenous folks began to starve? In what context, again? Perhaps because their food stores were destroyed by europeans always taking and hardly giving anything in return? And before europeans arrived? --Okay, some starved at times, just as the Irish, just as the peasants in a world dominated by feudalism.

Does incest mean the same thing in all cultures?

For instance, if there is no heavy-feelings in a culture about sexuality or *bad touches*
then would people have the same kind of a taboo feeling about it that a culture that *has* such heavy-feelings (via the state-backed church's
way of control over the people through proscribing all sex acts except missionary-position procreation made by heteros married by the chruch)? Are there grey area ways that make it possible to approach things which are taboo in one culture and yet not at all similarly viewed in another?

No, i see very heavily-loaded value assumptions being thrown, blanketly, upon the "primitives" in general by you and so many others. i say, read some critique and demystification of anthropology (and any other usually politically-suberservient social "science") before you make your sweeping judgements (which have a curious way of making the conquering society sound so much "better", notably). i know an author off-hand that could help you in that area...i'm trying to recall his name...um...oh yes, Theodore Roszak (spelling?) went into this in some detail in his book about the 1970s counterculture.

And i don't agree, either, on the "mentality of consciousness" as you seem to believe it was some universal. Look at indigenous medicine, look at how shamans were created and when, look at every facet of pre-colonized life and then tell me that they shared a "mentality of consciousness"! i don't see that at all!

But when the europeans arrived, a ton of shit began cropping up. Tribes were divided up and the old trick of "divide and conquer" was employed systematically (to this day); indigenous folks did not understand this. Nor did they understand the selling of lands. You read any account of old-way chiefs talking to europeans and you see that there is a QUALITIVE difference between the two cultures! Once indigenous folks were pushed into the insanity of european seeing and believing, all of these pollutions began cropping up, and peoples, seeking to remain in harmony, did what they could to get along; but systematically, they were fooled and tooled! Only now have they, as a whole people, begun to get a full understanding of we colonized peoples' mentality.

So the point i'm trying to make is that we can see, often too clearly, that indigenous society wasn't nearly as insane as european society! How?

By recalling that the waters were not polluted, the forests were not decimated, the wild animals were not decimated by hunting, nothing was
wasted, and so on and so forth. Guns were not invented, not even the wheel. Alienation did not exist as we know it today, if at all; Mom nature (aka wakan tanka) was always there in everything they were and did. Animals, when killed, were prayed to (before and after death).

Even if i'm somewhat "romanticizing" the indigenous, pre-"civilized" way of life, you know you cannot help but to see the truth when
comparing with european feudalistic society, right?!

The other info is interesting to me, thanks for sharing about the jewish guy who saw in his captors their lostness; do you have a title in mind?
i'd like to read about that one.

As for the stronghold of the church? Back when the church ran states, okay. Yet, after they became *subordinate* to states, all they did was
its bidding. We can see examples of this in movies like "At Play In The Fields of the Lord", where missionaries are tolerated to change
the indigenous peoples, but if they don't, the military will kill and terrorize them. The church (and every state-subordinate religion!)
is yet only one more example of the bigger picture of the meta Chess Game being played on all diverse humans who subordinate their individualities to such a dumbed-down way of being in the world. Do you see what i'm saying?

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Heard of Redwire magazine? Online archive is VERY deep!

2007-09-16T23:51:02Z

Thought i'd post this link, a VERY deep consciousness going on for some years now in "British Columbia", canada. Check out their archive, especially!

www.redwiremag.com (Redwire magazine is for Native Youth, especially, but all may read!)

A goOd one for any young folks out there (and elders too) who ain't beaten down fully!

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Update Sharbot Lake

2007-09-04T16:09:39Z

I repectfully ask to post this update...if it is not ok...please feel free to take it down?

with respect
nanci

OPP “SNUBBED” BY SHARBOT LAKE ALGONQUINS

MNN. Sept. 3, 2007. 200 or more Indigenous and their supporters
shouted down a sheriff who was delivering a colonial court order.
This is very strange. The colonial courts pretend to protect
property rights. There is no evidence that the Algonquin people
ever gave up their rights to this land. Why would the court make
an order to support intruders? It seems to be taking orders from
a private company that wants the Algonquins to remove a
blockade and stop protecting their land. They’ve been blocking
a proposed uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake since June 2007.

Superior Court Justice Gordon Thomson issued the order on
Monday, August 27th. The Algonquins are not Canadians.
Foreigners have no jurisdiction over them according to
international law. The Ontario Provincial Police OPP, Frontenac
Ventures and all the other non-Algonquins are trespassing.

The settlers could be given a temporary right to reside by the
Algonquins. Such permission is not unprecedented. These
were granted in early colonial times based on Algonquin law
and consensual agreements. The settlers who have homes
on Algonquin land are supporting their landlords. The
Algonquins could grant them ‘permission’ to continue using
their ancestral land so long as they respect Algonquin laws
and protect the integrity of the environment for future
generations.

The two sheriffs, escorted by OPP, were met on the road
outside the mine by 24 Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan
warriors. They were not allowed on the property, which is
located off Highway 509 about 12 kilometres north of
Sharbot Lake. The sheriffs shouted from the road over the
crowd who drummed, chanted and yelled.

The OPP had come to break the peace and the Algonquins
refused to cooperate with them. Shabot Obaadjiwan war
chief, Earl Badour, signalled for the native flag to be turned
upside down to symbolize that "the colonial
government has put them all in distress."

The sheriffs left with their armful of papers and could not
get close enough to post one on the fence.

The native and non-native defenders want a peaceful
resolution through talks and consensual agreement. This
will be impossible so long as belligerent tactics like court
injunctions are used.

The Algonquins are not leaving their land. Residents and
Algonquins oppose uranium mining because of concerns
over devastating environmental affects. The water table of
Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec from the lakes into the
Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers will be contaminated and
make the area unlivable for humans, animals and vegetation.
Algonquins environmental laws do not allow such exploitation
by anyone.

Ontario has no right to issue “death warrants” to the
Algonquin people and the settler population at large by
granting permits and licenses to organizations involved in
illegal activities or any other harmful ventures.

The trespasser, Frontenac Ventures, is suing the Algonquins
for $77 million and is seeking a court injunction to have the
defenders kicked off their land. The temporary injunction will
have a full hearing on September 20th in Kingston Ontario.

The Ontario government has no authority over the Algonquin.
The Algonquins never accepted to become British subjects
or Canadian citizens and there has been no conquest. They
will accordingly be boycotting this kangaroo court. The judges,
the government and the exploiters all sit on the same side of
the table as the judge, jury and executioner. If Canada and
Ontario are not willing to respect Algonquin rights, they should
bring the matter before a neutral independent international court.

OPP spokesman, Paige Whiting, said they have no plans to
move in on the Algonquin defenders for the time being [because
they know they have no right to do so]. They usually prepare for
such an attack by considering a ratio of at least 4 cops or more
to 1 victim. The estimate in this case of 200 people would mean
they have to muster 800 or 1,000 policemen and soldiers to
conduct their oppressive operation.

This would be an international invasion of the Algonquin nation.
Whiting said, “We’ll warn them a few minutes before the big
onslaught to give them a chance to get out of the way of our
war machines”, or words to that effect.

OPP have set up a large command post at the Sharbot Lake
detachment. More OPP have been brought in from neighboring
counties [for the forthcoming ‘big’ action!]. It’s obvious they’re
getting ready for some kind of aggressive action against the
Algonquin and their supporters.

Algonquin war chief Badour said his group has always been
"non-confrontational" and is always ready to talk outside the
colonial court with the police, the corporations, their government
puppets and the press at anytime.

The defenders have caught the attention of the Christian
Peacemakers Team International, an organization that claims
to work to conserve peace through “pacifism”. Those who
want to work with them have to learn the pacifist philosophy.
They will teach us how to turn the other cheek. If that’s the case,
then they’re visiting the wrong side of the issue. We have
peaceful ways. They should use their philosophy to pacify
the police and other colonial agencies who are constantly
threatening to break the peace and the laws and to commit
atrocities against us.

The “Christian Peacekeepers” is another pacification group.
They work with such police as the OPP that threaten to
come onto independent Indigenous lands to attack us and
help the exploiters to our resources. These people should
tell the OPP that we abhor their threats of invasions, court
injunctions, demonization of us on the media and the
impending contamination of our people and our land.

About 80 vehicles lined the roads for the protest yesterday.
Many non-natives wore bright yellow T-shirts with the slogan
"no uranium mine, there is a better solution." Ever since the
officers left, the crowd has been happy and relaxed. Everyone
was happy to defy such a destructive court order. We like these
kinds of pow wows!

Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Allies, to help please contact:
paulasherman@trentu.ca; chiefdoreen@aol.com;
john@plentycanada.com; rcota@sympatico.ca

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News

See: "Sharbot Lake"
http://www.mohawknationnews.com/news/news4.php?lang=en&layout=mnn&category=58&srcurl=%2Fnews%2Fnews3.php%3Flang%3Den%26layout%3Dmnn%26sortorder%3D0

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Salutations From The Far Side Of Sanity

2007-08-31T16:56:59Z

Hmmmmmmmmmm, let me see.

I'm a American Indian Film Maker/writer. Maybe some of you heard some of my ramblings on other sites ot published works. I'm that Injun with an attitude who does news items from all around the First Nation. I seek out news items that don't get proper exposiure from the main stream media. I have an international viewership and can spread the word regardless of what the main stream media wants to release.

As far as the supernatural, I simply call it the medicine since within my culture we don't disect all the goings on within the spirit world so I don't respond to all the techno ga ga that most people use when describing paranormal events. I don't do UFO, Ghosts, magic or parlor games with my medicine. Nothing is imposible within the confines of the spirit world, it's all medicine simple as that. Seeing and talking with spirits as well as dealing with pinhead spirits is the norm with Native communities anyway, so whats the hoopa all about anyway.

I don't use devices such as crystals, cards, or any other props to do my medicine. Cheyenne way does not use nor utilize any 20th century devices to perform our healing medicine or fighting evil. We never had printing presses for spirit cards or machines to gleen perfect crystals and we don't believe in incantations or spells. Cheyenne way is to Walk with Sweet Medicine, to have complete faith in the Creator and to never side step or superceed the Creators wishes. That is, we don't tell everything we see since it's not our place to be fortune tellers. Only after we ask the Creator do we ever mention what we see. And in many cases, we have to simply bit our tougnes. Why, well we begin and end cycles all the time and within these cycles are lessons. Some lessons are very stark indeed since people are so stubborn. Sometimes people have to learn the hard way in order to completely understand their lessons. If you act like a fortune teller and spill the beans. The person will never learn the lesson or simply have to go through the process again.

The time of change or the humbling times? Yup it's very real, it's been told from camp fire to camp fire since the last Ice Age and well it's back like the old buzzards said. The only way to prepare for this event is within your heart. Ma Earth is pissed since she is having her season and she is in the process of cleansing all that causes her disconfort. There is no free ride and everyone needs to seek out their spirituality and to realize which spirits are cool and which ones that are not so cool. After all you need to be able to distinguish between good and bad so you can heed any warnings. Sort of like Moses and Egypt. If he did not know to verify if a spirit was good or bad, he would never have gotten the message to smear the lambs blood at all the doorways to keep death at bay. That was the real lesson in that story eh.

But by the same token, I respect the ways of others but I don't mix my medicine and stick to my traditional ways and not that of the 20th century or any Euro idologys, I'm strictly Cheyenne and walk the ways of my people.

Anyway, that's my schpeel on all this...........

See you in the funny papers eh.

Buffalohair

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respect for the cherokee

2007-08-31T16:49:42Z

hello all, i was not planning to join just yet but in attempting to post something i inadvertently got joined to ya all, so be it. repect to everyone hear and good living to ya all i come with love and respect not intending to stir anything up, in any way but in peace with love and respects to ya all, i read in bury my heart at wounded knee that one out of every four cherokee people were killed back in the day, my family was included in this excluding my grandmother who was put in a indian school and then adopted by baptist missionaries who forcefully assimilated her into white european culture at the time, and so my point, in the bio for this tribe it says something about not joining just becuz someone granma is half cherokee, it feels a little disrespectful to be honest and doesnt feel as it is really considered the forced assimilation and all, one in 4 people from a tribe of people is alot they were dessimated and im proud to be a survivor of that lineage they couldnt kill us and if i was alive back then i hope i would not have gone quietly, as i wont today! i mean why pick on the cherokee descendents why not put more energy towards schooling the people not talking down but uplifting, i am not a wanna be i know who i am , i know the stories of my family and who my maternal grandparents clan was , but as a result of genocide i was not raised from birth in their ways , but it is something i can run towards and teach my children from birth, people should empower and not put down a group of people that went through genocide like all the tribes from patagonia to alska did but you never mentioned any one else, why not? peace love and i only come with respect and honesty so hopefully you who wrote that can see that and hear me.

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