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October 22, 2016

Tipiziwin 'Warriors Come Back! They are Chasing our People to the River'


Videos reveal unprovoked police brutality today, water protectors 
beaten with police batons, pepper sprayed, large number arrested

By Tipiziwin Tolman
Censored News

Please watch the video posted by Wiyaka Eagle Man, the police, the military, armored vehicles, assault rifles, they are chasing our people, surrounded our people, chasing them into the river. I started crying, holding my baby daughter, because we come from so much people who were chased down, hunted down and gunned down by the military and the police. History is repeating itself. All those stories we were raised with, that we carry in our hearts, of our people, fleeing, running, racing, for our lives, just to live. We are the grandchildren and great grandchildren of those who survived the US Government federally mandated massacres on our people.
Ikíčhize wičháša épi na Ikíčhize Wíŋyaŋ nitȟáwapi kiŋ
uŋwičháši '
SEND YOUR MEN AND WOMEN WARRIORS HERE!!
Come back to Standing Rock's northern border, all Ocheti Sakowin, all nations, all people. Come be a witness for the water and for the world. Come stand and protect our people and our water and our future.
Please. Remember all those caravans from Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, etc., come back, and come now.
Even if you have to walk.
Who am I to ask this of our people, the people, I really am nobody or nothing but I am a mother and a teacher of children from Standing Rock. I grew up on the Missouri, this is my home. And my family has lived along the Missouri since 100 years before the stars fell (1730) according to our families winter count. I know there are so many sacred sites, prayers sites, grave sites, that are being plowed over.
I know what is at stake.
Our water is our first medicine in our historical and LIVING traditions. It is the main component in all our ceremonies. It is the very reason we are alive.
Please share this post far and wide, and --
Please come or come back to Standi
ng Rock. Now.
We need you, more than ever.

August 13, 2016

Supplies needed Sacred Stones Camp 'No Dakota Access Pipeline'

Photo by Carla Lisa Cheyenne

Photo Waniya Locke

Photo Waniya Locke, Camp of Sacred Stones, Cannon Ball, North Dakota
Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016

AIM Oglala Lakota


By LaDonna Tamakaska Wastewin Allard,

The STOP DAKOTA ACCESS front line needs more singers and drums, more people from Standing Rock and other Reservation and urban areas, need cooks and food for the warriors on the front line, more prayers always more prayer, some tents for those who stay on the front line, some shades at the front lines, chairs for those at the front line, most of all bail money to get our people out of jail. Please stand up, this is our life, our water, our land there will be no one to come save us, we must stand up and save ourselves. STOP DAKOTA ACCESS

Legal Defense Fund Camp of Sacred Stones

Photo Waniya Locke, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016
Camp of Sacred Stones
Cannon Ball, North Dakota

May 8, 2015

Death by police and COINTELPRO: UN Reviews US Human Rights Violations on Monday


United Nations hears US human rights violation on Monday: Death by police, theft of Indigenous children, coal and uranium mining cancer alleys, border migrant abuse, unjust imprisonment, spying, torture and assassinations

By Brenda Norrell


The United States human rights violations will be reviewed on May 11, 2015, before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The murder of unarmed blacks by police officers, COINTELPRO, and freedom for Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu Jamal, are on the agenda.


Racial discrimination and unjust imprisonment top the list of human rights violations by the United States. The seizure of Indigenous children from their homes, and death by environmental pollution, particularly for Native Americans in the Southwest, are included in the United States human rights atrocities. 

The fact that the US continues to fund Israel, while Israel carries out Apartheid in Palestine, is in the human rights violations. As expected, the US has already attempted to defend its record on spying, torture and targeted assassinations.


Taking the lead, the US Human Rights Network, in its statement for the upcoming Universal Periodic Review on Monday, calls for the release of political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu Jamal.


"More than 20 racial and social justice activists and human rights defenders languish in prisons throughout the U.S. These political prisoners are COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Eraxxvi activists who were persecuted because of their political beliefs and activities. They are now indigent, aging, infirmed, and entitled to immediate relief. UPR Recommendations 92.94, 92.153 and 92.154 call on the U.S. government to “end the discrimination against persons of African descent;' and to 'release all of its political prisoners…including Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu Jamal.”


The US Human Rights Network points out the environmental racism, which has resulted in widespread death for the poor in the US. The example is New Mexico, where coal-fired power plants, uranium mining and atomic testing poison the region, and target both Native American and Chicano communities. Coal-fired power plants and uranium mining poison the Navajo Nation, while the Pueblos have been scarred with the legacy of death from both uranium mining and atomic testing.


The Human Rights Network states, "Throughout the U.S., communities of color and Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately exposed to environmental pollution. In New Mexico for example, they suffer disproportionate health impacts - primarily cancer - from pollution caused by industrial and extractive activities (including uranium mining and processing), yet many are denied effective legal recourse."


On the issue of global human rights, the US Human Rights Network points out that the US continues to fund Israel, in the face of Israel's ongoing human rights atrocities in Palestine.


"Since 2010, Israel is, by far, the largest recipient of U.S. foreign military assistance. Providing military assistance to Israel in the face of longstanding impunity for human rights crimes represents an ongoing failure of the U.S. to fully implement International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and accountability measures required under the U.S. Leahy Laws." Read the full report of the US Human Rights Network: http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/ushrnetwork.org/files/upr_exec_summary_of_stakeholder_reports.pdf


US State Department glosses over violations

Meanwhile, in what Russell Means, Lakota, often called "another dog and pony show," the US State Department has already submitted a statement glossing over its human rights violations.

In the US State Dept. response, there is no mention of the United States drone assassinations. The US has little to say in its own defense about spying on its citizens (which the US Appeals Court has just ruled illegal) or spying on the world's leaders and citizens.

As for the US response concerning its own spying, if it were not tragic, it would be laughable.

The US State Dept. response is brief: "See general comments. We collect information about our citizens only in accordance with U.S. law and international obligations."

The US State Dept. actually denies its own assassination programs, which has been well-documented by former CIA agents and whistleblowers. The US responds in its statement:

Recommendation 142: Halt selective assassinations committed by contractors, and the privatization of conflicts with the use of private military companies.
U.S. position: See general comments. Our contractors are not authorized to engage in direct hostilities or offensive operations or to commit assassinations. Like U.S. government personnel, contractors may only use force consistent with our international and domestic legal obligations. We have expressed support for the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers.

As expected, the US State Dept. denies it has violated the Geneva Conventions by carrying out widespread torture, disappearances and targeted assassinations. Further, the US denies its role in the ongoing abuse of migrants at the borders and prison-for-profit schemes involving migrants. The US assumes no responsibility in the militarization of the US border, or confesses that US Homeland Security selected Israel's defense contractor Elbit Systems to build spy towers on the Arizona border this year, including on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Read the US State Department's full statement for the Review: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/upr/2015/237250.htm

UN High Commissioner lists some violations of Indigenous rights

Meanwhile, in its summary for the upcoming Review, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights has listed US human rights violations -- as stated by what the UN refers to as "stakeholders."


The children who never came home
Carlisle Indian School, Penn.
Photo by Brenda Norrell
The removal of Indigenous children from their homes is among the current human rights violations listed. This follows generations of abuse, torture and murder of Native American children who were kidnapped by US agents and forced into US boarding schools, leaving behind missing children, fractured families and generations of trauma. The boarding schools also militarized Native children, resulting in Natives joining the US armed forces in large numbers and serving in the same US military force responsible for the widespread genocide of Native Americans.

Currently the seizure of Native American children from their homes and families by social services and other US agents, in violation of law, is being fought by Lakotas in the Dakotas and other Native Americans throughout the US.

In its report, the High Commissioner states: "JS10 stated that indigenous children are removed from their families and communities at disproportionate rates as compared to other children and once removed they often suffer psychological, economic and cultural harms."

One of the crimes largely ignored by the media in the US is medical research targeting people of color without their knowledge. What type of research was Johns Hopkins carrying out at Fort Defiance PHS hospital in Arizona, and elsewhere, all those years? Many of the Navajos who went there did not speak English and trusted the doctors and translators to make decisions for them. Johns Hopkins is being sued for infecting Guatemalans with STDs.

Also, has Indian Health Service been collecting DNA without American Indian patients knowledge? (A Native youth was recognized for her achievement in creating a DNA kit for IHS.) 

The facts are known that Indian Health Service systematically sterilized American Indian women in the US, many in the 1970s, as documented by Censored News in this video interview with Jean Whitehorse, Dine', at the AIM West gathering. Extensive investigations are now revealing how Native children in Canada in boarding schools were secretly used in medical and psychological experiments. Less is known about those experiments in US boarding schools and hospitals. Video interview with Jean Whitehorse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26-QlIGhXcE

In the High Commissioner's report on the United States, some of the human rights violations of "Minorities and indigenous peoples" are listed.
JS46 stated that Alaska and Hawaii were each a state of peoples recognized under the law of nations and international law as nations, claiming self-determination and self governance. According to JS46, the US submitted misleading reports to cloak the violations of the Charter of the United Nations and international law.250 87. While acknowledging the efforts made by the Government in recent years to advance the rights of indigenous peoples, JS5 noted with deep concern that indigenous peoples, including American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian peoples, still face significant challenges that are related to historical discrimination, acts of oppression, and inadequate government policies.251 JS5 recommended the Government to adopt measures to effectively protect sacred areas of indigenous peoples against environmental exploitation and degradation. 252 JS19 made similar recommendations.253 88. JS48 requested that the UPR Working Group recommend that the US fully implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples without seeking to diminish the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples to, inter alia, self-determination, free, prior and informed consent, rights to traditionally owned, occupied and used lands, territories and resources, cultural rights and sacred areas.254 JS44 made similar remarks and recommended protecting cultural landscapes and sacred areas of indigenous peoples and A/HRC/WG.6/22/USA/3 11 ensure that consultations are held with the communities affected by development projects and exploitation of natural resources.255 JS42 made a similar recommendation.256 89. JS26 stated that the principle of free, prior and informed consent relating to indigenous peoples must be central to domestic and foreign policy. Sacred sites must be protected across the country.257 90. JS40 stressed that the reclamation of traditional lands and natural resources is a primary goal for the Nipmuc Nation and the Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe. 258 Tribal members are continually challenged in their right to hunt and fish without license. Some cases have resulted in arrests of tribal members.259 WSNC recommended that the Government respond to WSNC requests for negotiation on treaty and land rights.260 91. JS48 indicated that the US continues to make unilateral decisions to extract resources (gold, uranium, coal, timber, water, etc.), and to carry out development projects with devastating impacts on the sacred areas, including waters and other resources. 261 92. JS48 requested that the UPR WG recommend that the US reconsider its rejection, in its first UPR review, of recommendation 92.154262 regarding the end of the incarceration of the Indian activist Leonard Peltier. 263 93. JS42 asked the UPR WG to recommend that the US engage in peace processes with Indigenous Peoples by providing safe access to land, water and education, and safety from violence. 264

Besides the United States, the Human Rights Council will also review human rights in Belarus, Liberia, Malawi, Mongolia, Panama, Maldives, Andorra, Bulgaria, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Croatia, Jamaica and Libya during the session, which is the 22nd session, May 4 -- 15, 2015.

Read the UN High Commissioners full statement: http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/ushrnetwork.org/files/summary_of_stakeholders_information_usa_upr_2015.pdf

Also see: Hungry Aboriginal children used in bureaucrats experiments in Canada:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/hungry-aboriginal-people-used-in-bureaucrats-experiments-1.1317051



NOTE: Please forward additional statements submitted to the UN, for publication in Censored News to: brendanorrell@gmail.com

Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS


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* DOOD DOOR POLITIE EN COINTELPRO : VN ZAL VS SCHENDINGEN VAN MENSENRECHTEN BEOORDELEN
 Verenigde Naties horen VS mensenrechtenschendingen op maandag: Dood door politie, diefstal van inheemse kinderen, kolen en uranium mijnbouw –kankers, mishandelingen van migranten aan de grens, onrechtvaardige opsluitingen, spionage en moorden.
Vertaald door NAIS: www.denaisgazet.be

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De mensenrechtenschendingen door de VS zullen op maandag 11 mei 2015 beoordeeld worden door de Verenigde Naties in Genève. De moord van ongewapende zwarten door politieagenten, COINTELPRO, en vrijlating van Leonard Peltier en Mumia Abu Jamal, staan op het agenda.
Rassendiscriminatie en onrechtvaardige opsluitingen kronen de lijst van schendingen tegen mensenrechten gepleegd door de Verenigde Staten.
Het wegnemen van inheemse kinderen, en dood door vervuiling van het milieu, in het bijzonder voor Native Amerikanen in het Zuidwesten, maken ook deel uit van de wreedheden tegen mensenrechten.
Het feit dat de VS doorgaat met het financieren van Israël, terwijl Israël openlijk Apartheid voert in Palestina, is een schending van mensenrechten.
Zoals te verwachten was heeft de VS reeds een poging gedaan om zijn dossier over spionage, folteringen en doelgerichte moorden te verdedigen.

Het US Human Rights Network zal maandag de spits af bijten met zijn verklaring voor de komende ‘Periodic Review’ over de roep tot vrijlating van politieke gevangenen Leonard Peltier en Mumia Abu Jamal.
“ Meer dan 20 raciale en sociale activisten voor rechtvaardigheid en mensenrechten kwijnen weg in de VS gevangenissen. Deze politieke gevangenen zijn COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Eraxxvi activisten die werden vervolgd voor hun politieke overtuiging en activiteiten.
Nu zijn zij behoeftig, oud, ziek, en hebben zij recht op onmiddellijke vrijlating.
UPR Recommendations 92.94, 92.153 and 92.154 roept de VS regering op om een einde te maken aan de” discriminatie tegen personen van Afrikaanse afkomst; en al zijn politieke gevangenen, waaronder Leonard Peltier en Mumia Abu Jamal, vrij te laten.”

Het US Human Rights Network wijst op het milieu racisme, dat resulteerde in wijdverspreide sterfgevallen bij de armen in de VS.
Het voorbeeld is New Mexico, waar door kolenaangevoerde elektriciteitscentrales, uraniumontginningen en kernproeven het gebied vergiftigen, en zowel de Native Amerikaanse als de Chicano gemeenschappen bedreigen.
Kolenaangevoerde elektriciteitscentrales en uraniummijnen vergiftigen de Navajo Natie, terwijl de Pueblo’s getekend zijn met de erfenis van sterfgevallen door uraniummijnen en kernproeven.

Het Human Rights Network stelt: “Doorheen de Verenigde Staten zijn gekleurde gemeenschappen en inheemse volken onevenredig blootgesteld aan milieuvervuiling. In New Mexico bijvoorbeeld, zijn er onevenredige gevolgen voor de volksgezondheid- voornamelijk kanker- door pollutie veroorzaakt door industriële en extractive activiteiten (inbegrepen uraniumontginningen en verwerkingen), maar velen worden effectieve juridische bijstand geweigerd.”

Over de kwestie van mondiale mensenrechten, wijst het US Human Rights Network erop dat de VS Israël blijven financieren, ondanks de wreedheden tegen mensenrechten in Palestina.

“ Sinds 2010 is Israël veruit de grootste ontvanger van VS buitenlandse militaire assistentie. Het militaire assistentie verlenen aan Israël, gelet op de langdurende straffeloosheid voor zijn misdaden tegen de mensheid,geeft het falen van de VS weer om volledig de ‘International Humanitarian Law’ (IHL) te implementeren en aansprakelijkheidmaatregelen vereist onder de US Leahy Laws”
Lees het volledige verslag van het Human Right Network hier, ‘Engels):http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/ushrnetwork.org/files/upr_exec_summary_of_stakeholder_reports.pdf

Ondertussen, in wat Russel Means, Lakota, meermaals “een andere hond en pony show” noemde, heeft de VS reeds een verklaring, die zijn mensenrechtenschendingen mooi met een laag vernis bedekt heeft, ingediend.

In de verklaring van het VS State Dept wordt met geen woord gerept over de drone- moorden. De VS kon niet veel aanvoeren tot zijn eigen verdediging over spionage op zijn burgers ( wat het beroepshof van de VS net als onwettig verklaard had), of het bespioneren van de leiders en burgers van de wereld.
Moest het antwoord van de Vs betreffende zijn eigen spionage niet zo tragisch zijn, zou het lachwekkend zijn.
Het antwoord van het VS State Dept is kort: “ Zie algemene opmerkingen. Wij verzamelen enkel informatie over onze burgers in overeenstemming met de VS wet en internationale verplichtingen.”

Het US State Dept. ontkent daadwerkelijk zijn eigen moord- programma’s, die wel degelijk gedocumenteerd werden door voormalige CIA agenten en klokkenluiders.
Het VS antwoord in zijn verklaring: “ Recommendation 142: Halt aan selectieve moorden uitgevoerd door opdrachtnemers, en de privatisering van conflicten door het gebruik van private militaire bedrijven.
US positie: Zie algemene opmerkingen. Onze aannemers zijn niet gemachtigd om zich te mengen in directe vijandelijkheden of offensieve operaties of om moorden te plegen. Zoals het VS personeel mogen aannemers enkel macht gebruiken wanneer het consistent is met onze internationale en binnenlandse wettelijke verplichtingen. Wij hebben onze steun uitgesproken voor de Internationale gedragscode voor private Security Service Providers.”

Zoals te verwachten was, ontkende het VS State Dept. dat ze de conventie van Genève heeft geschonden door het uitvoeren van wijdverspreide folteringen, verdwijningen en doelgerichte moorden.
Verder ontkent de VS zijn rol in de voortdurende mishandelingen van migranten aan de grenzen en ‘gevangenis -voor winst- systemen’ ten koste van de migranten.
De VS neemt geen aansprakelijkheid aan in het militariseren van de VS grens, of geeft toe dat US Homeland Security dit jaar Israël’ s ‘defense contractor Elbit Systems uitgekozen heeft om spionnentorens te bouwen op de grens van Arizona, spionnentorens die ook gericht staan op de Tohono O’odham Nation.
Lees de volledige verklaring van het US State Dept hier, (Engels):http://www.state.gov/j/drl/upr/2015/237250.htm
Ondertussen heeft de UN High Commissioner voor mensenrechten in zijn samenvatting voor de komende beoordeling, de schendingen van mensenrechten door de VS opgelijst.
Het verwijderen van inheemse kinderen uit hun families is opgenomen in de lijst van mensenrechtenschendingen.
Deze volgen op generatielange mishandelingen, folteringen en vermoorden van Native Amerikaanse kinderen die ontvoerd werden door VS agenten en in VS kostscholen gedwongen werden, verdwenen kinderen, gebroken families en generaties van trauma achterlatend.

De UN Hihg Commissioner zegt: “JS10 stelt dat inheemse kinderen weggenomen werden van hun families en gemeenschappen in onevenredige getallen in vergelijking met andere kinderen, en eens weggenomen psychologische, economische en culturele schade ondergingen.”

Sommige van de mensenrechtenschendingen van ‘Minderheden en inheemse volken’ worden opgelijst in het rapport van de High Commissioner.

JS46 stelt dat Alaska en Hawaii erkend werden als naties onder de wet van naties en international law; die aanspraak maakten op zelfbeschikking en zelfbestuur.
Volgens JS46 diende de VS misleidende rapporten in om de schendingen van de ‘Charter of the United Nations en International Law250 87’ te verhullen.
Terwijl de inspanningen van de afgelopen jaren die gemaakt werden door de regering om de rechten van inheemse volken te verbeteren wel erkent worden, merkt te JS5 met diepe bezorgdheid dat inheemse volken, waaronder Amerikaanse indianen, Alaska Natives en Native Hawaiian volken, nog steeds belangrijke uitdagingen moeten aangaan die gerelateerd zijn aan historische discriminatie, daden van onderdrukking, en inadequaat overheidbeleid.

251 JS5 adviseert de overheid om maatregelen te treffen die daadwerkelijk sacrale gebieden van inheemse volken beschermen tegen exploitatie van milieu en degradatie.

252 JS19 heeft overeenstemmende aanbevelingen gemaakt.

253 88.JS48 verzoekt dat de ‘UPR Working Group’ adviseert dat de VS de VN verklaring van de rechten van de inheemse volken volledig eerbiedigt, om onder meer: zelfbeschikking, vrije voorafgaande en geïnformeerde instemming, rechten tot traditionele, bezette en gebruikte gronden, territoria en grondstoffen, culturele rechten en sacrale gebieden, zonder te proberen om de inherent rechten van inheemse volken te minimaliseren.

254 JS42 maakt soortgelijke opmerkingen en adviseerde de bescherming van culturele landschappen en sacrale gebieden van inheemse volken en A/HRC/WG.6/22/USA/3 11 verzeker dat raadplegingen gehouden worden met de gemeenschappen die getroffen worden door ontwikkelingsprojecten en exploitatie van natuurlijke bronnen.

255 JS42 gaf een soortgelijke aanbeveling.
256 89.JS26 stelde dat het principe van vrije, voorafgaande geïnformeerde instemming centraal moet staan in het binnenlandse en buitenlandse beleid. Sacrale sites moeten heel het land door beschermd worden.

257 90.JS40 benadrukt dat de terugwinning van traditionele gronden en natuurlijke bronnen de hoofdbekommernis is voor de Nipmuc Nation en de Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe. 258 tribale leden worden voortdurend beknot in hun recht om te jagen en te vissen zonder licentie. Sommige gevallen resulteerden in arrestaties van tribale leden.

259 WSNC adviseert dat de overheid het verzoek van WSNC voor onderhandelingen over Treaty en landrechten inwilligt.

JS48 gaf aan dat de VS verdergaat met het maken van eenzijdige beslissingen om grondstoffen te onttrekken (goud, kolen, hout, water, enzovoort), en met ontwikkelingsprojecten uit te voeren met verwoestende effecten voor de sacrale gebieden, waaronder water en andere bronnen.

261 92.JS48 verzoekt dat de UPR WG aanbeveling doet dat de VS zijn afwijzing, in zijn eerste UPR review, van aanbeveling 92.154262 om de opsluiting de Indiaanse activist Leonard Peltier ongedaan te maken.
263 93.js42 vraagt de UPR WG om de VS te adviseren om zich te engageren in vredesprocessen met inheemse volken door een veilige toegang tot land, water, onderwijs en veiligheid tegen geweld te voorzien.


April 22, 2014

Faith Spotted Eagle 'Indian Women defending land from Keystone XL pipeline'

Faith Spotted Eagle: Women are nurturers, but they are also Mother Bears, ready to defend the land and water

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English and French

WASHINGTON DC -- Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan Oyate (Yankton Dakota) told the ‘Reject and Protect’ action resisting the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline today in DC that Indian women are ready to protect their land from the proposed invasion of the Keystone XL pipeline and violence of the man camps in the Dakotas.

Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan Oyate spiritual leader and elder, said Southern Ponca, Pawnee and First Nations allies signed an international treaty to protect the land from Keystone XL pipeline in Jan. of 2013.

"With that Treaty, we mean business."

During the action on the National Mall, she also spoke on the role of the Buffalo Robes and Star Quilts for honoring people. She was joined by Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca from Oklahoma.

Spotted Eagle said the backbone of the nation is the women. They are the co-creators. The role of women is that of life givers, a role that requires women to be humble.

"We have to be very humble about that because we also bring life. We have to walk in that way of remembrance."

“We have a responsibility but we also turn into Mother Bear.”

“We stand here as Mother Bears to defend our land, our farms, our ranches, our treaty territory. They are violating our treaty land and our treaty water."

"We have come here to say 'Enough is Enough.' We are not going to let TransCanada pass our treaty land.”

Spotted Eagle said the ‘man camps’ of oil crews are bringing increased violence to Indian Nations. One out of three Yankton women have been sexually assaulted by non-Indians, she said.

"When you assault us, you assault Mother Earth."

Now, Native Spiritual Camps are going up along the proposed TransCanada route to defend and protect.

Spotted Eagle said the first spiritual camp was on Ponca land in Oklahoma, then in South Dakota on the Lakota land of Rosebud and next at Cheyenne River land. Spiritual camps will go up on Lakota land at Lower Brule and Pine Ridge in South Dakota. The Ihanktonwan place is to "watch the door."

Listen to more from Faith Spotted Eagle in today's livestream video: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/04/livestream-reject-and-protect-cowboy.html

French translation by Christine Prathttp://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2326


au micro, Faith Spotted Eagle, à sa droite sur la photo Casey Camp-Horinek
FAITH SPOTTED EAGLE : LES FEMMES SONT LA POUR NOURRIR, MAIS ELLES SONT AUSSI DES ‘MERES OURS’, PRETES A DEFENDRE LA TERRE ET L’EAU
Par Brenda Norrell
Censored News
See original article in English
Mardi 22 avril 2014
Traduction Christine Prat

WASHINGTON D.C. – Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan Oyate (Yankton Dakota) a déclaré aujourd’hui, au cours de l’action ‘Rejeter et Protéger’ qui résiste au pipeline pour sables bitumineux Keystone XL, que les femmes Indiennes sont prêtes à protéger leur territoire contre l’invasion projetée du Keystone XL et de la violence des camps masculins dans les deux Dakota.
Faith Spotted Eagle, guide spirituelle et Ancienne Ihanktonwan Oyate, dit que les Ponca du sud, les Pawnee et des Premières Nations (Canada) alliées ont signé un traité international, pour protéger le territoire du Keystone XL, en janvier 2013.
« Avec ce Traité, nous sommes sérieux ».
Pendant l’action sur le National Mall, elle a aussi parlé du rôle des Peaux de Bisons et des Couvertures Etoilées pour honorer les gens. Elle a été rejointe par Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca d’Oklahoma.
Faith Spotted Eagle dit que les femmes sont la colonne vertébrale de la nation. Elles sont co-créateurs. Le rôle des femmes est de donner la vie, un rôle qui requiert de l’humilité de leur part.
« Nous devons faire preuve d’humilité parce que nous donnons aussi la vie. Nous devons suivre la voie de la mémoire. »
« Nous avons une responsabilité mais nous nous changeons aussi en Mère Ours ».
« C’est en tant que Mères Ours que nous résistons pour défendre notre terre, nos fermes, nos ranchs, notre territoire selon les traités. Ils violent notre territoire et notre eau reconnus par traités ».
« Nous sommes venues ici pour dire ‘Assez !’ Nous ne laisserons pas TransCanada passer par notre territoire reconnu par les traités ».
F. Spotted Eagle a dit que les ‘camps masculins’ pour les équipes des compagnies pétrolières avaient accru la violence envers les Nations Indiennes. Une femme Yankton sur trois a été agressée sexuellement par des non-Indiens, dit-elle.
« Quand vous nous agressez, vous agressez Notre Mère la Terre ».
Actuellement, des Camps Spirituels Autochtones sont établis le long du trajet projeté par TransCanada, pour défendre et protéger.
F. Spotted Eagle dit que le premier camp spirituel se trouvait en terre Ponca en Oklahoma, puis dans le Dakota du Sud sur le territoire Lakota de Rosebud, et le suivant sur le territoire de la réserve de Cheyenne River. Les camps spirituels vont se propager en territoire Lakota dans la réserve de Lower Brule et celle de Pine Ridge dans le Dakota du Sud. Le site Ihanktonwan est là pour « garder la porte ».
..Dutch translation by NAIS
Faith Spotted Eagle : Vrouwen zijn voeders, maar zij zijn ook ‘Berenmoeders’, klaar om het land en het water te verdedigen.
 Door Brenda Norrell: Censored News: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
 Nederlandse vertaling: A.Holemans voor de NAIS Gazette: www.bloggen.be/natam
Washington DC- Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan Oyate (Yankton Dakota) zei tijdens de ‘Reject and Protect’ actie tegen de Keystone XL teerzanden pijpleiding dat de Indiaanse vrouwen klaar staan om hun land te beschermen tegen de voorgestelde invasie van de Keystone XL pijpleiding en het geweld van de mannenkampen in de Dakota’s.
Spotted Eagle, geestelijk leider en Elder van Ihantowan Oyate, zei dat de zuidelijke Ponca, Pawnee en bondgenoten van First Nations in januari 2013 een internationaal verdrag tot het beschermen van het land tegen de Keystone XL pijpleiding ondertekenden.
“En dit verdrag nemen wij ernstig”.
Tijdens de actie in DC sprak zij ook over de rol die de Buffalo Robes en Star Quilts speelden bij de huldiging van mensen. Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca van Oklahoma voegde zich bij haar.
Spotted Eagle zei dat de vrouwen de ruggengraat zijn van de natie. Zij zijn de 'mede- scheppers'. De rol van de vrouw is die van levengever, een rol die vrouwen nederig maakt.
“Wij moeten als levenbrengers nederig zijn. Die verantwoordelijkheid dragen wij , maar, wij zijn ook ‘Moederberen’”
“En nu staan wij hier als Moederberen om ons land, onze boerderijen en ons treaty -territorium te verdedigen. Zij schenden ons treaty- land en water".
"Wij zijn naar hier gekomen om te zeggen: genoeg is genoeg! Wij zullen TransCanada niet door ons treaty -land laten komen."
Spotted Eagle zei verder dat door de ‘mannenkampen’ van de olieploegen het geweld in Indiaanse Naties toeneemt. Een op drie Yankton vrouwen worden seksueel misbruikt door niet- Indianen.
“Een aanslag op ons is een aanslag op Moeder Aarde.”
Nu, worden overal langs de voorgestelde TransCanada route Native Spirituele kampen opgetrokken ter verdediging en bescherming
Spotted Eagle zei dat het eerste spirituele kamp opgetrokken werd op Ponca land in Oklahoma, dan in Zuid Dakota op het Lakota Rosebud land en vervolgens een op Cheyenne River land. Nog meer kampen zullen er komen op Lower Brule en Pine Ridge in Zuid Dakota. De Ihanktonwan plaats is “de deur in het oog houden.”

Vertaald in het Frans door Christine Prat :  http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2326

April 21, 2014

Cowboy Indian Alliance in DC: Reject and Protect fighting Keystone tarsands pipeline

Photo by Farhad


Cowboy and Indian Alliance tipis up and ready for action on the National Mall in DC!

Lakota Joye Braun halting megaload.

Lakotas van in accident enroute: 

Joye Braun and others from Cheyenne River in South Dakota found out their bus wouldn't make it to the Reject and Protect action in DC. 
They headed out in their van and hit a deer. They made it back home safely in the busted van this weekend. 
Hopefully, non-profits or others can fly the group to DC! 
Joye said a second vehicle from Cheyenne River, with Robin LeBeau and grassroots Lakotas, is on its way.  Joye recently halted an oilfield megaload on Cheyenne River Lakota land all by herself. -- Contact Joye at: floyd.braun@gmail.com
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By Brenda Norrell
Photo by Farhad

WASHINGTON DC -- Native Americans, farmers and ranchers united with grassroots and environmental groups and pitched their tipis on the National Mall today, sending a spiritual message to President Obama to say, “No!” to the Keystone XL pipeline. The coalition is in DC as a voice to protect sacred water and land for future generations.
In the "Reject and Protect" campaign, there's a week of actions against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, in Washington and in local communities, from April 22-27, 2014.
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance and allies invite folks from across the country to visit the tipi camp on the National Mall and participate in the actions.
“We need all hands on deck to bear witness all week. Join us in showing the strength of our communities. We call upon President Obama to take this historic step in rejecting Keystone XL in order to protect our land, water and climate,” organizers said.
If you can only make one event during the week, the most important day is Saturday, April 26, when thousands will be gathering at the Camp for a tipi presentation ceremony and procession.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader among the Dakota, Lakota, Nakota people, said, “Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of mankind.  Do you think that the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of danger? Know that you are essential to this world. The biggest cancer spreading upon Mother Earth is the tar sands.”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe, blessed the tarsands resistance spiritual camp on Cheyenne River in South Dakota. A second Spiritual Camp is set up on Rosebud Lakota land in South Dakota to protect the water and land from the threat of the Keystone XL pipeline.
United in struggle, Chief Reuben George, Tsleil-Waututh, said, “One thing I can say right off the bat is that we are winning. When we come together like this, we become stronger. There is no price for our water and lands. The lessons we receive from Mother Earth is to become better human beings.  We give back to the earth and the land. The pipelines do not do that. We are going to win!”


General Schedule — all events will be at the tipi camp, located between 9th and 12th Streets on the National Mall, unless otherwise noted.
April 22, Tuesday
Opening Ceremony – US Capitol Reflecting Pool, 11am-2pm
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
Documentary showing, 8pm: Pipe Dreams, “Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: The Keystone XL Pipeline.”Director: Leslie Iwerks
April 23, Wednesday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Walk to various federal agencies for meetings/actions, 10-11am
Meetings/actions with federal agencies, 11-1pm
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
Documentary showing, 8 PM: Tipping Point — Through the story of a people forced to the brink and the revelation of what ‘dirty oil’ will do to our environment, this immensely powerful documentary helps us to really understand the trade-offs we make for our energy as we approach the end of the age of oil. Introduction by and Q and A with Francois Paulette
April 24, Thursday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Meetings with allied groups 11am-1pm
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
#sosEPAnoKXL, 8pm: Giant light projection action to tell the EPA to intervene and say no to Keystone XL — hosted by the Other 98%. RSVP here
April 25, Friday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Prayer and song at Sec. Kerry home, 11am-noon
Painting of Obama tipi, 4-6pm
Music and sharing stories, 6-8pm
Award-winning photographer Garth Lenz presents slides of the tarsands, joined by Crystal Lameman of the Beaver Lake Cree First Nation, 8-9pm
April 26, Saturday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Painting of tipi canvass liner with general public’s thumbprints, 9:00 am-10:30 am
Group ceremony and procession with tipi, 11am-2pm
Music and sharing stories at tipi camp, 6-8pm
Documentary, 8 PM: H2Oil “H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tarsands expansion.” Director: Shannon Walsh, courtesy of Loaded Pictures / Dark Hollow Films
April 27, Sunday
Water ceremony, 9-10am
Interfaith prayer ceremony – Lafayette Park, 10-11am
Closing ceremony – Lafayette Park 11am-noon

On April 22nd, our alliance of pipeline fighters — ranchers, farmers, tribal communities, and their friends — called the Cowboy Indian Alliance will ride into Washington DC for the next, and perhaps final, chapter in the fight against Keystone XL.
On that day, we will set up camp nearby the White House, lighting our fire and burning our sage, and for 5 days, we will bear proud witness to President Obama’s final decision on Keystone XL, reminding him of the threat this tar sands pipeline poses to our climate, land, water and tribal rights. Throughout those 5 days, we will show the power of our communities with events ranging from prayers at Sec. Kerry’s home and an opening ceremony of tribes and ranchers on horseback in front of the White House.
On April 26th (note new date) we invite our friends and allies against the pipeline to join us as we conclude our camp and make our final, unmistakable message to President Obama. Our community of pipeline fighters just sent 2 million comments against the pipeline in just 30 days. We must follow this up with action in the streets on April 27th as we march with tribal leaders and individuals currently living with the risk tar sands to show all the beauty and power we represent. Everyone is needed and everyone is welcome. 
With his decision closer than ever, President Obama must know what is truly at stake, and see once more the power of the alliances that have turned Keystone XL into a turning point for our movements, and for our future. 
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance  (C.I.A) brings together tribal communities with ranchers and farmers living along the Keystone XL pipeline proposed route. Farmers and ranchers know the risk first-hand. They work the land every day. Tribes know the risk first-hand. They protect the sacred water, and defend sacred sites of their ancestors every day. They have united out of love and respect for the land and water on which we all depend.
This is not the first time Cowboys and Indians have come together to stop projects that risk our land and water. In the 80s, they came together to protect water and the Black Hills from uranium mining and risky munitions testing. In the American imagination, cowboys and Indians are still at odds. However, in reality, opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has brought communities together like few causes in our history.  Tribes, farmers and ranchers are all people of the land, who consider it their duty as stewards to conserve the land and protect the water for future generations.
The C.I.A. asks President Obama a simple question: Is an export pipeline for dirty tar sands worth risking our sacred land and water for the next seven generations?
On June 25, 2013, President Obama said, “Our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” Anyone with common sense knows the Keystone XL pipeline would exacerbate the climate crisis: an 830,000 barrel per day pipeline filled with tar sands and chemicals like benzene will make it easier for tar sands companies to dig up and burn more of the world’s dirtiest oil than they could with any other feasible alternative.
Our actions next month will show President Obama that we are living up to his call to “be the change we wish to see,” and that we stand with him to say no to Big Oil. Together we will make a clear promise that if President Obama goes back on his word and approves the Keystone XL pipeline, he will be met with the fiercest resistance from our Alliance and our allies from all walks of life. Bryan Brewer, President of the Oglala Sioux, speaks for us when he says, “We are ready to fight the pipeline, and our horses are ready.”
Please join us this April to tell President Obama to Reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and protect our land, water, and climate. 
-The Cowboy Indian Alliance