Global news: Republic of Lakota

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

The Lakota Freedom Delegation's website has had a half million hits in one week, visitors have been from 100 countries.
News of the Lakota Freedom Delegation's action has appeared around the world, from Taiwan and China to Russia, Italy and Argentina. It has been translated into the majority of the world's global languages. Here's a list collected from Google breaking news:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/lakota-freedom-delegation-is-news.html
After the Mohawk warriors supported the Lakota delegation, Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, received e-mails stating that she should tell both sides of the story.
Kahentinetha said, “I am not neutral. I am on the side of the traditional Indigenous people, not tribal council sell-outs and those who get a government ‘handout’ and do the bidding of their ‘masters.’ I am not objective.
“I am for Indigenous law, international law and human rights. For me, there is only one side to this -- the side of right which is being exercised by those who have no fear of doing so. The rest have been scared into fear of changing a life deforming colonial system. Yes, I am very subjective on the issue of Indigenous sovereignty. I will never support illegal and genocidal federal Indian law. I will never be on the side of promoting colonial lies. I will not give them the time of day!"

Looking back at women, photos from 2007

(Top) Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, on the US/Mexico border looks in the direction of her own community, whose ceremonial route has been dissected by this border wall, including a new barbed wire fence detrimental to migrating jaguar and Sonoran pronghorn.

Rose Main with her mother Vernie White Cow Main on Big Warm Creek, Gros Ventre land in northern Montana, search for ways to help Rose's brother Jim Main, Jr., jailed for over a year for a murder he said he did not commit. The trial has been delayed as new evidence surfaces on other people at the scene. Indian rights activists question if a fair trial is possible in a Montana border town. In the photo, Rose and her mom are enjoying fresh salmon brought by the Sohappy family.

Tohono O'odham Angie Ramon at the site where her son, Bennett Patricio, Jr., was ran over and killed by the US Border Patrol near the border in 2002. The Ninth Circuit upheld the lower court's decision and did not find fault with the Border Patrol. Angie, still seeking answers and justice, now has the option of filing murder charges and searches for an attorney.

A Raging Granny protests the war in Iraq in Tucson and asks George Bush how many kids has he killed today.

Photos by Brenda Norrell

Chief Big Foot Riders Return to Wounded Knee

LAKOTA A Free People, A Free Nation!www.lakotafreedom.com
27 December 2007
Media: growland2000@yahoo.com
Lakota Freedom: Naomi Archer: lakotafree@gmail.com

CHIEF BIG FOOT RIDERS RETURN TO WOUNDED KNEE,
"WE WANT TO BE FREE"

13 Day Ride Began Under Bonds of U.S. Treaty, Ends On December 29th With Free Nation
21ST Annual Ride Returns To New Life for Free Lakota People

By Lakota Freedom Delegation

WOUNDED KNEE, Lakota (formerly South Dakota) – Thirteen days and 287 miles ago, 44 people mounted horses and began the Memorial Chief Big Foot Ride in honor of Si Tanka (Chief Big Foot) and his unarmed band of Mniconjou and Hunkpapa refuges who were slaughtered by U.S. Calvary in 1890 at Wounded Knee.
But while these 44 riders began their journey under the shadow of U.S. Treaty, their numbers will swell to over 100 and end under the protection of a free and sovereign Lakota Nation.
The ride began on December 15th in Standing Rock, the anniversary of Sitting Bull's death, and has traveled through fierce snowstorm and cold, the same conditions faced by the 357 mostly women, children and elder men at Wounded Knee Creek 127 years ago.
"The purpose of the ride is to ride the spirit trail of Chief Big Foot," said Tegihya Kte also known as Garry Rowland, leader of the riders and recent delegate of the Lakota Freedom effort in Washington D.C.. "The Tree of Life died in Wounded Knee in 1890, and the ride was begun to mend the Sacred Hoop."
Riders ranging in age from 10 to 65 travel the footsteps of their Ancestors, along the way offering prayer for the women, children, the Elders, and the conditions the Lakota people are forced to live under today. For the children, the ride is also a powerful introduction to the sacred relationship between the Lakota and the horse and the courage their Ancestors took during their 13 day walk from the site of Sitting Bull's assassination to Wounded Knee.
"My sons and now my grandsons have participated in the ride," shared Tegihya Kte. "They ride for our future and the self-determination of our people." The self-determination of the Lakota now takes on powerful meeting as the Lakota Freedom Delegation traveled to Washington D.C. and withdrew the Lakota from their treaties with the United States Government. The ride becomes an outward expression of sovereign Lakota rights and spirituality.
Tegihya Kte said, "We don't want the government telling us what to do, we want to be free."
Lakota Freedom delegate and Cante Tenza leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) agreed, "The Lakota withdrawal in Washington D.C. brings real protection for our people today, exactly the real protection Big Foot sought for his people then."

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 http://www.lakotafreedom.com/

PREVIOUS ADVISORIES
12/23/07: Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children
12/19/07: Sovereignty Declared, 33 Year Treaty Council Agreement Satisfied, Liens Threatened

Desert Rock: Sleepwalking toward disaster

Sleepwalking toward disaster
By Edward Mazria
Editor:
Recent scientific studies about global warming could not be more disturbing. A report in the journal Science, projects that coral reefs, home to 25 percent of all marine species, will be gone by 2050. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that 20 percent to 30 percent of all plant and animal species on earth will be gone by 2050...
Yet, here in New Mexico, we seem to be sleepwalking toward disaster. A 1500 MW conventional coal-fired power plant called "Desert Rock" is about to be built, which will release about 12.7 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere each year.
Read article:
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_7817035?source=most_emailed

Read more at the Dooda (NO) Desert Rock blog by grassroots Navajos:

http://www.desert-rock-blog.com/