Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 2, 2011

Natives: Portraits of Arrests White House Tar Sands Sept 2, 2011

Tom Goldtooth/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood
Debra White Plume, Lakota/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood
Kandi Mossett, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood
Gitz Crazyboy and Tom Goldtooth/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood.
Robert Chanate (Kiowa), with the Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3)- Ruckus Society and one of the IEN Action Trainers getting arrested. Photo Shadia Fayne Wood.
Darrell "Curley" Youpee, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux, Montana/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood
Author activist Naomi Klein arrested/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood
Patrick Speaks, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, Great Plains Tribes Dakotas, Wyoming and Nebraska. Photo by Shadia Fayne Wood.
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Marty Cobenais/IEN/Red Lake Ojibwe/Photo Shadia Fayne Wood
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Kent Lebsock, Lakotas' Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way. Photo Shadia Fayne Wood.


IEN men getting out of jail/Photo Joshua Kahn Russell

Gitz Crazyboy at rally before he was arrested./Photo Josh Lopez


Kandi Mossett speaking before her arrest./Photo Josh Lopez

Debra White Plume speaking before her arrest/Photo Josh Lopez

Chief Bill Erasmus support at the rally. Photo Josh Lopez
Native delegation with Naomi Klein/Photo Tar Sands Action
NEW! Watch the slideshow of all the Indigenous heroes arrested:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarsandsaction/sets/72157627454426585/show/
See photos of everyone arrested on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarsandsaction/sets/72157627577507110/with/6107318838/


CENSORED NEWS
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Portraits of Arrests Sept. 2, 2011: Native Americans and First Nations arrested at White House to halt the tar sands pipeline. Photos Shadia Fayne Wood and Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action.
Those arrested include Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; Debra White Plume, Oglala from Pine Ridge, S.D., and Kandi Mossett, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, from North Dakota.
Watch video:
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2039650298276806223#editor/target=post;postID=8546733352410177393

Read statement: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/09/natives-arresting-at-white-house.html
Thank you to all the photographers, support staff and brave ones who were arrested at the White House!

2 comments:

BullishBeauty said...

Could someone please explain to me why, on what grounds, were these people arrested? I do not believe there actually were any grounds. I just want to know what grounds they were told they were arrested for.

al3xgr said...

Im not able to watch the video