Larry Kibby: The Dreaded US Apology

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Dreaded U.S. Apology
By Larry Kibby
On May 19, 2010, an event was held at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., an event in which several Federal Representatives and several Tribal Representatives were in attendance, an event directed to the American Indians of these United States in which the Government issued a "Formal Apology for Ill-Conceived Policies and Acts of Violence committed against them."

The following comments are my own opinion and personal viewpoint of this event that took place on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, which in a manner of speaking is simple, what a "Sad Inhuman Joke!"

"The U.S. government apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect inflicted on” American Indians by U.S. citizens." Wrong! We're talking about hundreds of years of prejudicial inhuman brutal beatings, torture and murder of innocent Elders, Women, Teens, Children, Infants, Medicine folks and Holy People by the United States Government, United States Army and U.S. Citizens and the reality of that is this, that the United States Government and Army are both "Guilty" of enacting and carrying out the "Worlds Worst Ever" Genocide and Holocaust against the American Indian.

"Ill-Conceived Policies?" More like several Centuries of pure "Racial Hate Policies!" You don't shoot a baby in the head and then crush its skull in with a rifle butt and call that "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

When women, teens and children are sexually assaulted and brutally raped and their genitals sometimes cut out and worn as decorations, that is not "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

When children are forcibly removed from their families and homes and dragged to boarding schools, where they are forced to have their hair cut, beaten when they speak their own language or practice their culture and beliefs or are sexually assaulted and raped, that is not "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

When families of elderly, women, teens, children and babies are sleeping peaceably and then suddenly attacked, beaten, hacked to death and out and out murdered, that is not "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

When deceit and lies, beatings and even murder are utilized as a means to religiously convert Indian people, that is not "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

When Nation after Nation of Indian people are brutally and inhumanly removed from their traditional home lands for no justified reason, that is not "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

The list of inhuman atrocities against the American Indian by the United States Government, U.S. Army, U.S. Citizens goes on and on and for sure they were and are not "ill-conceived policies or an act of violence!"

"The history of the U.S. (toward American Indians) is not a bright record." No, it is not a bright record, I'd say it is down right shameful, disgraceful and historical record full of "Pure Racial Hate." An historical record of inhuman acts and brutal inhuman murder, terrorism towards a people of the worst kind.

Today, despite the historical past of their ancestors, hundreds, if not thousands of our people have become strongly assimilated and religiously converted, there is no wrong in that, it is their life and their right to choose how they so desire to live.

As well, in this day and age, despite the historical past of their ancestors, we have hundreds if not thousands of our tribal people who have at one point in time wore and still wear the colors of the armed forces, people who have and continue to fight and die honorably and with dignity for this country and all of its citizens.

Of course in these contemporary, what with so many of our tribal folks who have travel the road of assimilation and who have converted to non-Indian religions, there are some of those folks who have and continue to denounce the Ancient Customs and Belief's of our Ancestors, who seemly walk along side of the Anti-Indian Movement.

And what about the hundreds of Broken Treaties? What about this Government, Corporations and American possession of the mineral wealth taken from this land that was accumulated through the murder of our people? What about the millions and millions of acres of land that was stolen through the death of our people?

Turncoats, Tribal Corruption, Criminal Activity, Liars and Frauds have aided and abetted the American Government in its endeavor to distort, destroy and desecrate all that represents Indian Country, the Ancient Customs and Belief's of the American Indian.

517 years of Injustice, there is no real logical means that can unravel the continued on-going racial hate, prejudice and discrimination of the Governments so-called "Ill-Conceived Policies and Acts of Violence."

If anything, it is time to stop the Racial Hate, Inhuman Acts and Policies of Cultural Genocide towards the American Indian and then maybe begin working towards creating a genuine and unique Apology.

Written and Prepared by: Larry Kibby - l.kibby@frontier.com
Elko, Nevada 89801

Chevron Disrespects Indigenous Leaders Exposing True Cost of Chevron

http://www.truecostofchevron.com/
Contacts: Diana Pei Wu, dianapeiwu@gmail.com, 510-333-3889
Sangita Nayak, emailsangita@gmail.com, 414-412-4518

Chevron Disrespects Community Leaders Exposing True Cost of Chevron

Indigenous and global leaders ignored by Chevron decision-makers, expect showdown at shareholder meeting

Hi res, rights free photos available at http://rainforestactionnetwork.smugmug.com/Change-Chevron/True-Cost-of-Chevron-Press/12311033_j4CMA#878829788_Uw4tB

Update: Protesters arrested outside Chevron stockholder meeting on Wednesday

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7022962.html

HOUSTON -- After traveling from as far as Australia, Burma, Nigeria, Ecuador and Alaska, community leaders and authors of the newly released report "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report" were rebuffed by Chevron CEO John Watson when they tried to deliver their report at the company's Houston office on Tuesday. The report details Chevron's human rights abuses and environmental destruction around the globe.

"Chevron refuses to face its own true cost. Community and Indigenous leaders came from around the world from the locations where Chevron operates, and they were left waiting in a lobby," said Antonia Juhasz, lead author and editor of the new report and director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, calling the Chevron actions "disrespectful." She and the rest of the Coalition await the shareholder meeting tomorrow, where a Chevron representative agreed to a "point by point rebuttal" to the new report.

Indigenous community leaders Guillermo Grefa (Kichwa) from Rumipamba, Ecuador and Emem Okon from Nigeria accused Chevron's operations of causing the extinction of indigenous peoples, while Debora Barros Fince (Organizacion Wayuu Munserrat, La Guajira, Colombia) added that Chevron supports the paramilitary operations of the current government in Colombia. Grefa asked, "When are you going to clean up what you have contaminated?"

Many of the leaders demanded that Chevron be held accountable for the deaths of their community members, such as Reverend Ken Davis, from Richmond California, who said, "Chevron takes out profits, and I have to see people to their graves." T.J. Buonomo, a former U.S. Army military intelligence officer and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, challenged the Chevron representative on Chevron's practices lobbying the Iraq government and the U.S. government to allow oil extraction in Iraq while it is still under military occupation. He said, "You don't consider that inappropriate? You can't bring those lives back."

At the press conference preceding the confrontation with Chevron, Elias Isaac of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa in Angola said that "Chevron's CEO John Watson has said that he is "humbled" by BP's explosion in the U.S. Gulf, "instead, he should be ashamed of his own company's offshore operations which cause persistent, ongoing, daily abuses of the environment, our livelihoods, and public health." The devastation caused by Chevron's offshore operations was also the focus of remarks given by Tom Evans of Cook InletKeeper, Homer, Alaska and Emem Okon of Keebetkache Women Development and Resource Center in Nigeria.

The True Cost of Chevron network leaders, experts and supporters will be rallying outside the shareholder meeting, Wednesday, May 26, at 7 a.m., at 1500 Louisiana St in Houston, and over forty will be attending the shareholder meeting at 8 a.m.

They will also attend a Houston community-led toxic tour of Chevron's operations in the Houston Ship Channel immediately following the toxic tour.

University of Arizona just got a lot creepier

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U of A: The University of Arizona is quickly becoming the University of Apartheid
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By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Photo: Dysfunctional Boeing spy tower in Arivaca, Ariz./Photo Brenda Norrell
TUCSON -- After the University of Arizona installed a global cyber spy on its staff and partnered with Homeland Security, it seemed the university could not get any weirder or less ethical.
Not so.
The latest student research targets people of color, brown people exactly. It is apartheid in the making, just as it was in the spy apparatus production at the Palestine/Israeli border.
Tucson's News Channel 4 interviewed Riley McIsaac, program manager for BORDERS from the Border Center at the Eller School of Management, at the university. McIssac described new technology in the Detection Lab.
First McIssac describes how students are being taught how to tell if someone if lying about their passport. The university says it has figured out how to "detect who the good guys and who are the bad guys."
Of course, they are talking about brown people, "bad" brown people, "bad" lying brown people.
News 4 reported, "And over at Optical Sciences, researchers are working on a sensor network. Sensor nodes will be housed in a box that is about 1 cubic foot. And because they are solar powered, the devices can be placed in remote desert areas."
"The border is a vast area. You can't have agents being there all the time," says Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian, PhD. The sensors will detect motion, vibration, pressure and temperature. Eventually if, for example, a vehicle with dangerous chemicals crosses, "It would detect the chemical; it would detect traces of that chemical or biological elements and send a signal to the operating saying, 'hey there's something going on here,'" News 4 reported.
However, the Boeing Corp.'s multi-million dollar spy tower debacle at the Arizona border has already failed so miserably that it is ripe for Saturday Night Live material. Those are the spy towers constructed along the border, with their many strange and dysfunctional Wi-Fi components in the rugged Arizona desert, at taxpayer's expense. Those are the towers with sensors that never worked. That was the same mess that Boeing subcontracted the Apartheid maker Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense contractor, to work on under Boeing's Secure Border contract. Elbit also designed surveillance for the Palestine Apartheid Wall.
So, now the University of Arizona has its students learning how to target brown people. First, and foremost, the university is looking for brown people who are liars.
Hopefully when this unravels even more, university students will start asking for their money back, based on the university's failure to maintain ethical standards, and filing lawsuits demanding disclosure of how much of their personal data is being mined by the university's global cyber spy department.
Anyone who has ever used one of the library computers at the University of Arizona, and then suddenly had a man in a suit standing at their side, demanding to know why they are writing a particular e-mail as the computer screen blacks out, knows that the Internet spying by the university has been going on for many years.
Students: Find out what they are doing with your information and if they are reading your personal e-mails.
It is one step back from apartheid and one step away from allowing the university to become a Nazi-type training center.
Of course, the university doesn't restrict itself to just targeting brown people from the Americas in its racial and religious profiling and apartheid instructional programs.
The university also has its: "Dark Web Terrorism Research" department.
No, that is not a joke.
The program description states, "As part of its Dark Web project, the Artificial Intelligence Lab has for several years collected international jihadist forums. These online discussion sites are dedicated to topics relating primarily to Islamic ideology and theology."
Reference: http://ai.arizona.edu/research/terror
The university is very proud of its cyber spying being carried out by Dr. Hsinchun Chen and its "Artificial Intelligence" funding from the US Defense Department.
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Day of 1,000 Drums: Sacred Places, Sacred Names

Sacred Places, Sacred Names

Press statement
This beautiful and sacred land is our Mother. She feeds, nurtures, shelters, teaches, all her children. The elements of Mother Earth form the sacred vessels of our Spirit – our bodies. And if we take time to listen to the land, we can feel the voice of our Mother resonate in our hearts, and know her language. This is why we believe the in the importance and meaning sacred Place Names. For thousands of years, native people have held a deep connection with this land. Our spirit and language is imprinted on this land. The Spirit of this land cannot be paved-over or erased on a map. With the help of good human beings, we can remember and restore the sacred place names of our Mother Earth.
This website is to provide information about the movement restore the original native name to Mt Rainier and other sacred sites. We are currently meeting with local language speakers and planning events.

Day of a 1000 Drums
Rally for the Restoration of Ancestral Names
Portland Ave Park, Tacoma WA
Sunday, May 30 from 11am to 4pm
Indian Tribes of the four directions and other indigenous organizations will be gathering for a day of celebration at the Day of a Thousand Drums to honor their culture, heritage and traditions and pay their respects to their ancestors who were first contacted and their descendants. The day will be filled with keynote, celebrity, spiritual, and elder speakers, accompanied by musical appearances of many award winning native recording artists. As well, the event will be formatted potlatch style, with special attention given to the elders and childrens well being and care.

The thought of restoring it’s rightful Indian name to what is now currently known as Mt. Rainier, at first seemed as impossible as landing on the moon, or the United States having a black President, but since it’s inception, has gained momentum as well as a lot of unsuspecting support as well as anticipated support.

At the root of the reason’s at to why it’s felt the name should be restored, is to bring forth a healing, a healing to millennia of generations of American Indians exterminated, removed and forced to assimilate to the dominate societies way of life.

Email: robertindns@msn.com

Join the Restore Native Names Alliance
About Us
Support and fiscal sponsor:
The Spirit of the Red Road is a 501c3 non-profit organization located in Tacoma, WA, and ran be people who understand the importance and value of keeping culture, heritage and traditions alive and healthy.
Members of this organization humbly practice the original ways of life handed down sacredly generation to generation. Using the various venues of worship(i.e. sweat lodge, canoe way, Native America Church, etc), we sacrifice of ourselves to pray to Our Creator for the many wants, needs, concerns and worries, expressing gratitude for the lives we have and humbly ask for continued healings and blessings.
We strive to live our lives in a good way, emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually balanced on a foundation of Love, Hope, Faith and Charity.

The Spirit of the Red Road organization is supporting and asking you to join in the crusade of those who are humbly praying to the Creator, to right the many wrongs of the past, caused and perpetuated by the intruding explorers with holocaustic attitudes, behavior and demeanor towards the original Aboriginal Indian peoples of the Coast/Salish regions here in Washington state.

Long before the lost explorers intruded, the original Aboriginal Indian people existed on an over abundant land with more than enough, and a language bestowed upon them from the Almighty Creator. Upon the land, and with the sacred language, he also bestowed holy names of the many places and sites of harvesting and worship. The names were given and gifted to the people with the law of understanding they were to be looked upon and spoken in a holy and sacred way, and it was good like that, and if it’s ever to be changed, HE(Creator) will change it.

Mission:
Our mission is clear, and that is to heal the holocaustic attitudes, behavior and treatment that was felt and put upon Our beloved Ancestor’s when first contacted, and still felt in the hearts of their grandchildren today. We pray to Creator for a healing, for Creator to somehow, someway, restore the deserved respect and dignity to Our Ancestors and their grandchildren whom acknowledged, respected and understood the compassion and reason Creator had when providing and naming such sacred and holy places.

Goal:
Our goal is to not to change, but to rightfully reclaim and restore the Creator (God) given names to the holy and sacred sites, starting with what is now known as Mount Rainier. (Note: It is important to bear in mind the white man changed the name! The mountain already had a name bestowed by Creator, and the original aboriginal Indian people respected and lived with the sacred name.)
History
HISTORY: For well over ten thousand years, the original aboriginal Indian people dwelled upon this land in peaceful harmony with the winged, finned, four legged, creepy crawly, plants and trees. The explorers of the New World were searching for a short cut around the Cape Horn, a water system that would connect the two oceans, the Atlantic to the Pacific, commonly known as the Northwest Passage.

What’s not so commonly known is, in a May 1792 journal entry, explorer Captain George Vancouver named Washington’s tallest mountain after his friend, Admiral Peter Rainier. But because Rainier was not made an Admiral until 1795, three years after the journal entry, proponents of the name ” Mt.Tacoma,” maintained that the journal had been altered. During the 40 year battle,(1885-1925), to change the name Rainier to Tacoma, Tahomas, or Tuchoma, or Ti’Swaq’, every little fact was important.
The issue of the mountain’s name came to the fore when Northern Pacific Railroad chose Tacoma as the site for their railroad terminus. A geologist sent to scout the area for coal deposits pointed out the possibilities of a mountain as a tourist attraction. The Northern Pacific took the opportunity to connect the railroad to the mountain. In March 1883 , the railroad announced that the mountain would be Tacoma in all their guides and publications. Until that time, the two names had been used interchangeably.
On October 15, 1833, Hudson’s Bay company doctor, William Tolomie, wrote in his diary that he had “enjoyed a fine view of Tuchoma or Mt Rainier, appearing in relief against the cloudless sky.” In his book, The Canoe and Saddle, Theodore Winthrop referred to the “Stupid nomenclature (Rainier) with which Christians had dubbed the mountain.” More melodious, he felt, was the Siwash name, Tacoma.
With the Northern Pacific announcement, however, battle lines were drawn-Tacoma against Seattle and Olympia in the fight for the name.
In 1890, the question was referred to the newly created United States Board of Geographic Names. In all issues regarding names, the USBGN was to “consult printed authorities, such as atlases and maps and consider oral testimony, and the commonly used name” before making a final decision. There are no minutes of their first meeting, but at the time, rumor had it that the decision to retain “Rainier” came after Seattle Senator Watson Squire had a carload of beer delivered to USBGN. For the next 35 years, some Tacoma’s referred to the mountain park as Budweiser National Park.
After the USBGN’s decision, the Northern Pacific conceded the fight, but the citizens of Tacoma refused to give up. When in 1893, Congress began considering a proposal to incorporate the mountain within a national park, the question of a name took on additional importance. Just before President William McKinley was ready to sign into existence Washington National Park, Senator John Lacey of Iowa attached an amendment and changed the name.
Still, Tacoma did not give in. In 1910 a book, The Mountain That Was God, again drew attention to the matter. Nationwide, sentiment seem to favor the name Tacoma. A Justice to the Mountain committee was formed and journalist Sam Wall canvassed the state. When in 1917, the legislature was asked to petition the USBGN for a name change, a vigorous debate resulted.
But the proposed name change was again denied. Issues regarding U.S. involvement in World War I took priority in Washington DC. After the war, though, the battle lines were drawn again. Minnie Mitchell, a former Tacoma band employee and secretary of the Mt Tacoma club, managed to resurrect the issue in both the Untied States House and the Senate. The Senate Public Lands committee favored the change but Seattle fought back.
Once again, the matter went to the USGBN. On Jan 15, 1925, smarting from what they perceived as an attempt to override their jurisdiction, the USBGN voted against the change, ending one of the longest battles ever to change a geographic name.
Peter Rainier never set foot on the mountain named after him, or Washington state or even the U.S. In 1935, John Louden Rainier, a great grandson of Peter’s brother, stood at Paradise and declared the peak “majestic beyond words.” He then went on to explain that the family name was pronounced “Rainy-er.” After all the fighting, the mountain not only ended up with the wrong name,. it ended up with a incorrectly pronounced wrong name. we can pretty much thank Seattle for that.
Summary:
So for 218 years, the mountains, lowland, valleys, prairies and the first peoples have been desecrated, disrespected and misinterpreted by the lost intruders and their descendants, we believe this is to have gone on long enough. We now live in a time, where the once thought impossible has become possible, man has walked on the moon, and today we celebrate the first black President of the United States of America.
In all the history of mankind, today “our” society is so conscientious of being politically correct, and considerate of other people’s sexual orientation, religion, rights, and culture, NOW more than ever before, is it obvious to do what is right, and right the wrong.
For the first time ever, this cause is being lead by an aboriginal Indian for aboriginal Indians(Native Americans) and the indigenous people’s of Mother Earth. For the first time, the issue is being presented from a Native Americans point of view, perspective, and interpretation. Today, we are no longer “dirty siwashes”(French word for savages), uneducated, third class citizens of society. Opposed to the time when the decision was made regarding changing the name of the mountain in 1924, today, the Native American people are now regarded and recognized as citizens of this country, citizens whom now have the legal right to vote in this country. As well, we are spiritual and reverent citizens of are own sovereign nations, with are own language, traditions and way of life. For the first time, it’s not about money or the commerce upper hand between the two rival cities of Seattle and Tacoma. For the first time we won’t have the white man’s attempts at trying to figure out how to speak or spell the names and words correctly (misinterpretation).

Support and Info:
The crusade to reclaim and restore the original Aboriginal Indian name to the mountain has begun, and is not a matter of “if” but WHEN the name is restored, and we now seek your support.
Currently, we have been busy putting together a working task force and still have some positions to fill. We understand the task at hand will not be an easy one or without cost. Naturally, we’re looking for many volunteer’s to help with getting out the information correctly to the press and public. We are accepting help on most levels, and are extending a cordial invitation to all other indigenous peoples of Mother Earth to join in our cause.
Financial contributions and donations may be accepted through our fiscal sponsor, Spirit of the Red Road, of Tacoma.
We have been busy putting together a support “Potlatch” / Support Rally with Tribal, Spiritual, and Keynote speakers, along with hand drum songs to be offered to Our Ancestors Spirits and their countless grandchildren in Tacoma, May 30th . Presently, the date is being referred to as the Day of a Thousand Drums; whereas, we pray that somehow, someway, we will have more than enough, more than a thousand people, more than a thousand drums, all beating the same beat, with everyone singing the same song. A healing song for Our reclaimation of a sacred and holy place. The intention is, Our Prayer to be heard from Seattle to Olympia, but felt around the World.
Putting his money where his mouth is, Robert Satiacum will be taking the cause to the summit of Ti’Swaq’ June 7th, to bring awareness to our concerns and cause here in Washington state. Taking with him to the summit will be an *Eagle headed staff with **support ribbons tied to it, to be placed at the summit and will be brought down only after the name has been restored. The support ribbons will be sent out to all tribes, indigenous groups and supportive organizations of Washington state. On the Day of a Thousand Drums, each representative of the different groups and tribes will have the opportunity and be asked to bring their ribbon of support to the stage and tie it to the *Eagle headed staff.
We are looking for motivated, energetic people with a positive attitude, willing to volunteer some of their time and skills for a positive change for themselves, family and generations to follow.
There is a lot to do, and little time to do it, your donations of money, materials, time and energy will be greatly appreciated in this monumental effort to correct and heal history, and the participants of that time, today and tomorrow.

*(Actual Eagle head taxidermied for this purpose)
**(Support Ribbons will have the individual names of each supporter)
For more information contact:
Robert S. Satiacum or Kalvin Satiacum
Robertindns@msn.com Kalvinsatiacum@live.com
253.224.4888 253.222.5162

Links
"Restoring The Ancestral Name To Mt. Rainier" on FaceBook

http://crosscut.com/2009/01/27/mossback/18799
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/archive/2009/01/28/quot-british-quot-columbia-quot-salish-quot-sea-mount-quot-rainier-quot-the-name-game-rages.aspx
http://restorenativenames.org/Home_Page.html