Nick Standing Bear takes flight to Spirit World

Longest Walk host in Salida, Colorado, Nick Standing Bear takes flight to Spirit World

This is to let you know that Nick Standing Bear, Lakota, Vietnam Vet and former POW, partner of Becky Donlan and your host in Salida, Colorado (Monarch Pass), took his life last Thursday. He was found at the Sacred Bear Circle, an ancient site east of Salida and we will scatter his ashes there on Tuesday. Sing prayers for your brother.
In solidarity,
Aho, Winter Ross
Crestone, Colorado 6/14/08

From: Mano Cockrum
Out of everyone I looked forward to meeting who helped in Colorado, Nick and Becky were the two I looked forward to meeting the most. They had been trying to educate the people of their region about sacred sites and to get harsher punishments for those destroying them, and a perspective to law enforcement to understand the extremity of the situation. They had a powerpoint developed and I had hoped to bring their message to D.C., but still have no financial resources to even visit anyone from Colorado who helped or the Walk in D.C.
Please take some time to offer a prayer for him and his partner Becky. Nick "Bear" reached out to me from their entire region willing to get support and hospitality for the walkers, facing obstacles such as the locals often racist views and resistance to helping native people, and coming up with tons of donations, spending several hundred of his own for food and advertising to get support, and he and Becky offering their time, energy and homes up to walkers. The visit took a toll, as it will on a community the walkers visit, but Becky and Nick had to bear the weight of it alone, not having an entire community to support them, the closest support being far south in Crestone.
I am very sad that I will never meet him, having spent much time talking to him and knowing he was a true warrior for the people. I can only hope his work lives on and gains the support he needed for it while alive.
Ahee'hee,
Mano-
Mano Cockrum
Indigenous Youth Sovereignty Project
http://www.iysp.org/

Longest Walk Talk Radio's interview with Becky Donlan in Salida, Colorado
2008-03-27_salida.mp3
39:2013.5 Mb

Thank you from the Longest Walk Northern Route

June 16, 2008

Good morning from the Longest Walk Northern Route,

The Longest Walk Northern Route of the Longest Walk 2 is deeply grateful for each of the emergency cash donations for gas and food, so the walkers could move camp from Cambridge, Ohio, to Raccoon Creek State Park, Penn:
Carina Gustaffasson of Swedan; police officer in Cambridge, Ohio; Matt Cordes; cash contribution for children on the Longest Walk; Sam Tullio and Darlene on behalf of the Red Hawk Society in Pennsylvania; Wilfred Hill of Oregon; Sophie Addison of Utah; Lukas Angus of Oregon; Community Futures Collective and Sheri Flying Hawke; motorcyclists on Hwy 60 south to Pittsburgh; Kerry Davis, Matt Besenger and Todd Clifton.

If you gave a cash donation for the northern route in the past 10 days and do not see your name, please contact: Sharon Heta (Maori), accountant for the Longest Walk Northern Route, cell: 650-417-4389.

Censored Blog reader: Ohio can forget my tourist dollars

Hau,
Columbus, Ohio cops attack nDns.
Hmm...
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.
Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio.
Ohio doesn't have a great history w.r.t. nDns, does it?
If they are still pissed that their stupid YellowHair tried to challenge a major encampment with a handful of conscripts, they need to get over it! We didn't kill Custer as much as his own greed for the Democratic Party nomination in St. Louis drove him into a reckless pursuit of power, deluded that he could kill nDns with impunity and they wouldn't fight back.
Nobody but Custer and his men died at that time. If Custer wouldn't have disobeyed his direct orders, nobody would have died that day. He probably would have been the nominee in St. Louis, and beat U.S. Grant in the general election. As President, Custer would have largely ignored the nDns, just like the other Presidents of the subsequent era.
Another count of intolerance for Ohio. They can forget my tourist dollars.
NewtNewtLove.com

Listen, Columbus Ohio mayor's office expresses regret over police attack

The latest from Longest Walk Talk Radio

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

Listen to new interviews and Native songs on http://www.earthcycles.net/, Longest Walk Talk Radio. Columbus Ohio mayor's office expresses deep regret over police attack on Longest Walk; Peace and Dignity runners are on their way to meet the Longest Walk; Mike Wilson, Tohono O'odham, speaks on people dying on Tohono O'odham land for "want of a drink of water," and Long Walker youths, Danny, Washo, and Craig, Navajo, share songs.
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2008-06-13_changenamecolumbus.mp3
one hour 3 min Change the Name of Columbus ,Ohio
h58.08 Mb
2009-06-13_mindset.mp3
one hour 5 min Traditional Knowledge What is Lost
h59.8 Mb
2008-06-13_peaceanddignity.mp3
Peace and Dignity Runners meet Longest Walkers
12:2311.34 Mb
2009-06-13_mikewilson.mp3
Mike Wilson, Border Wars, Humanitarian Aid, Human Rights
27:2625.12 Mb
2008-06-13_longesttalk.mp3
18:4417.16 Mb
2009-06-13_dannyandcraig.mp3
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