Mohawk Nation News 'US Honey Boo Boo'

US Honey Boo Boo

Posted on October 3, 2013

Mohawk Nation News

MNN. Oct. 3, 2013. The display on the Learning Channel of a 6 year old low class Hill Billy child and her family in all its poverty and grossness is not new to us Indigenous people. The visitors were always Red Necksand fat people. Today they are objects sold on the public entertainment chopping block, to make fun of themselves. Their American Dream is a glitzy gaudy obscene world of rampant commodification and sexualization. Anything can be exploited to satisfy their rapacious greed and vanity. 

Real all-American family!

They came from Europe, sickly, mistreated, malnourished and ignorant. Their rootless culture has been camouflaged. The collapse of the US economy is bringing out the truth of who they really are. Their system is guilt-free lethal opportunism off our backs. We’ve been carrying these parasites since they arrived. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is dismantling the carefully crafted false image of the white United States, which is actually racist, homophobic and shallow. They are called “white trash”. 

Rules of moral behavior are being cast aside. Baby beauty pageants like “Toddlers and Tiaras” and others display their tiny tots for the sexual satisfaction of the morbidly sick viewers. Pedophiles love to see parents prostituting their own children. Honey Boo Boo is all about sex, drugs and money. Everything is for sale, even their babies. Their beauty pageant kids are drinking Red Bull mixed with Mountain Dew, wearing Go-Go shoes and wiggling their hips to sexually arouse the judges. 

Onowaregeh, Great Turtle Island, is riddled with mass inequality, racism and imperialism to feed the needs of the bankers’ war corporation. They’ve allowed their rulers to mis-educated and manipulated them from kindergarten on up. Their fake “American Dream” pop culture is changed daily by their p.r. spinners. 

Honey Boo Boo is not an under class, criminal, unemployed exaggerated negative stereo type. She  represents the real American that kills and abuses worldwide so they can get their cut of everybody’s money. The corruption is being exposed. 

Recently in Kahnawake:“Come here, little Indian girl. I have something for you!”

Honey Boo Boo expresses the real mentality of the Americans. They came here to make money, not to work and to help kill and steal from the original people. Just below the surface they are Jack Daniels, prison tattoos, trailer parks and uneducated. More people watched Boo Boo than the Republican National Convention! 

We pitied and helped them. We did not want their slave mentality that allows their corporations to exploit them for sex, money and drugs. 

We have no hatred, only deep disappointment for the illegal settlers who are on our land. They continue to destroy the environment for all of us, without any guilt. They reneged on their promise to live by the Great Law of Peace. For doing this they will destroy themselves. 

SE NE RI TA IEN: [translation] “Stay away from our kids if you know what’s good for you!

Pedophilia has long been part of American pop culture, as the popularity of 5 year old Shirley Temple shows when she sang in the 1930s: “I’ve thrown away my toys/Even my drums and trains/I want to make some noise/with real live airplanes. Some day I’m going to fly/how would you like to be my crew”. Shirley Temple. “On the Good Ship Lollipop”.

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Supai Waters Message for Long Walkers Pipe Keepers and Fire Keepers

By Supai Waters

Damon Watahomigie
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During the fire, spirit orbs are present. When the course of the natural meridian is distracted you then take in regard its power. Lightning power and magic comes from these directive points, color helpers guardians of the rain bow. At each fire. Welcome them to be your guides both physical and emotional attributes. No opals or other non traditional relics, only cedar for fire. Great power is to the west, mind your heart and mind. Be very careful of what you ask for. Every tribe in the western hemisphere is your people also.
Love the land and all people.

Dakota Genocide: Chris Mato Nunpa Testimony to Peltier Tribunal

PRESENTATION

THE DAKOTA-U.S. WAR OF  1862:  SELECTED ASPECTS

INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEONARD PELTIER

October 02-04, 2013

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Hosted By Oneida Nation

By Chris Mato Nunpa, Ph.D., RETIRED, Dakota

Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies

Ho, Mitakuyapi.  Owasin cantewasteya nape ciyuzapi do!  Mato Nunpa emankiyapi.  Damakota, k’a Oceti mitawa kin he Wahpetunwan.  Mini Sota Makoce heciyatanhan wahi.

“Hello, my Relatives.  With a good heart, I greet all of you with a handshake.  I am called Chris Mato Nunpa.  I am a Dakota, and my Fire is the Wahpetunwan, or “Dwellers In the Leaves,” indicating the woodlands heritage of my Fire.  I come from the “Land Where the Waters Reflect the Skies, or Heavens,”  or Minnesota.

LIVE! Day 2 Peltier Tribunal 'Peltier is our Nelson Mandela'

Leonard Peltier Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Peoples Human Rights

By Brenda Norrell
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http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/10/live-day-2-peltier-tribunal-thursday.html
Dutch translation: NAIS
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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- The Leonard Peltier Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Rights began the second day with the AIM song, and a memorial tribute by Bill Means, Lakota, to Raymond Yellow Thunder, Lakota, who was beaten to death by whites in South Dakota.

Testimony of Dorothy Ninham, Tribunal sponsor Wind Chases Sun, Leonard Peltier Offense Defense Committee

Dorothy Ninham said the prison in Florida has made it very difficult to visit Peltier. When Peltier was in Lewisburg, he was told that someone sent him money, a silver note, from Europe.

Peltier sent it to Ninham. "They confiscated it on the way out. And they said it was a reason to search his cell." The person on the top bunk had wired his radio to a light bulb. "When they went into search Leonard's cell, they found the wires."

One of the guards pulled on it and said he had been shocked. Peltier was charged and was given sixty days in solidarity confinement and transferred to another prison.

"They just said he was guilty and had him in the hole." There was no air circulation, and the temperature would reach 120 degrees or more.

"Several days he couldn't even make it, he was so weak."

At Coleman prison, they took away his medication for high blood pressure and diabetes, saying the prison had to save money. "The doctor told him his blood pressure was out of control, and diabetes was out of control." Still, he was only given half of his medications and no way to test his blood sugar. He had arthritis and pains in his back and knees. Sometimes the prison doctors are just in and out in five minutes.

"When he went to the doctor, he was told that he was a candidate for a heart attack." His blood pressure and blood sugar was out of control.

There is nothing fresh or healthy, it is laced with sugar or fat, even in the visitor's room, she said.

Some of the obnoxious guards even try to keep the visitors on edge. Visitors also must go through metal detectors. "I think they just choose who they want to humiliate them."

Now, Peltier is at the opposite end of the country from his family. He is in Florida, and his family at Turtle Mountain in North Dakota. He should be placed in a middle security prison at this point, she said.

Prison policy says inmates should be within 500 miles of their families, making it very difficult for his family to visit him. Ninham tried to get Lenny Foster in to visit him as a spiritual leader, but they said Lenny was a friend not a spiritual leader.

"It is not an easy thing, they don't make it easy by any means." Ninham said Peltier is not getting the care he needs to have. Peltier said one inmate had a heart attack and they just let him lay there without any help. In one prison, Peltier was attacked by five inmates and the guards just stood there and watched it happen.

The process of visiting Peltier is a long one. If you have a record, or visit inmates in another prison, you can not visit. You have to have known him before he went into prison to visit him. As well, Peltier approves his visitors.

Responding to the Tribunal Judges questions, Ninham said it is difficult now for Peltier's attorneys to consult with him because of travel and distance. If documents are sent, the documents may be delayed for two weeks or more. 

During surgery once, Peltier almost bled to death.

"He doesn't get family visits very often, because they are so far away and it is so unaffordable."

Lenny Foster, Dine'

Lenny Foster, supervisor for the Navajo Nation Corrections Project, has been a spiritual adviser to inmates in state and federal prisons nationwide for 32 years.

Foster has witnessed the racism and discrimination in prisons. The religious freedom struggle in prisons is one of the difficult human rights struggles.

The purification ceremonies are constantly under attack in the prisons. They are isolated, with sensory deprivation, deprived of fresh air and sunlight.

"In the 32 years that I've worked with the prison system in the US, it is the most cruel and unusual treatment in the United States."

Foster has taken these issues to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, as well as to the US government officials in DC, to no avail.

Foster joined the American Indian Movement in Denver under the leadership of the late Vernon Bellecourt. They took a drum into prison for inmates. Then, they went into Stillwater prison for a ceremony. Those experiences convinced him to become involved in prisoner rights. He made a proposal to the Navajo Nation to work with inmates, with Heart of the Earth of AIM.

Foster submitted the proposal to Navajo President Peterson Zah and it was accepted. He has continued for 32 years. The access of inmates to herbs, sweetgrass and sage, and singing and drumming are issues that are a struggle in the prisons. Prison officials said drumming and singing would get inmates 'riled up.'

Prayers in the Native language were also a source of complaints by prison guards. "We don't all pray in the English language like the Christians do. Why are we being made to pray in the English language?"

"They don't understand that concept."

Scheduling becomes an issue and the prison officials exercise control. There are always threats to inmates of "being written up and sent to the hole."

Young Natives in prison need to learn their songs, and many need to be taught about prayer. "We resort to litigation and lawsuits. It is very difficult to win. The First Amendment doesn't provide that protection."

The First Amendment doesn't protect Native Americans religious rights.

"It is psychological warfare to take away dignity when you are incarcerated."

Foster said he knows the ways of the Sweatlodge and Sundance and can teach the songs and prayers. "It is important for survival."

Foster said he knows Peltier as a model inmate, friend and brother, who he sundanced with. He is considered a friend, a brother. Foster has known Peltier for 26 years and is a brother, a relative.

"He's our Nelson Mandela."

"We can't give up."

"I would like to see the National Congress of American Indians take a more active role in his release, and executive clemency."

NCAI has passed a binding resolution. Now, NCAI needs to set up a meeting with Obama's administration and Attorney General.

"When I used to visit him in Leavenworth, the chaplain made it very difficult for me to visit." The chaplain would follow Foster around.

"Peltier is experiencing bad conditions from diabetes, he needs to walk, fresh air, and fresh vegetables, they are not giving him that."

"I feel they want to kill him, and want to let him die in prison."

"When I see him, he says, "Lenny you need to help me, I'm going to die in here." Peltier is not afraid to die, but wants to spend his remaining years with his grandchildren and family.

Foster encouraged people to urge others to write letters. He has contacted the Navajo Medicine Men's Association to help. 

The US could do the right thing, and make amends with the Native American people.

"Leonard is an example of the resistance. We love him, and we miss him."

Video: Prison Guard Bruce Smith

Since his arrest, Peltier has been harassed and abused by the FBI and Bureau of Prisons.

Smith said, "Leonard is so high profile that all the shots were called by the Dept. of Justice, FBI."

On June 27, the day after the anniversary of the deaths of the FBI agents, Peltier was placed in solidarity confinement in Leavenworth, in temperatures of 120 degrees.

With Peltier's health problems, Smith said the question was: "Do they want him to die? They are giving him the death penalty by leaving him in that environment."

Peltier had received money from someone in Scotland, and this led to a search of Peltier's cell. In the previous weeks, the occupant of the top bunk was responsible for the wires on the light fixture.

Peltier wasn't even in his cell when the guard received that shock. 

Smith said people have to stand up to the injustice. "There's so many good things he can accomplish."

"If we don't do something right now, Leonard will die. Then, the blood is on our hands as a people," Smith said.

John Privatera


John Privatera, Peltier's attorney in Canada, asked that the government of Canada address the injustice and join the effort for Leonard Peltier's release.

Privatera, testifying by Skype, said Peltier's attorneys are finalizing a petition for executive clemency to President Obama. Already, Peltier has received a resolution of support from the National Congress of American Indians.

Privatera said Peltier's legal team is working with the government of Turtle Mountain Indian Nation to work with Peltier once he is released. Further, he said that the legal team is asking for Indian Nations to come together and support Peltier.

With a united effort by Indian Nation, President Obama can be asked to release Peltier based on a sovereign nation requesting the release of an inmate imprisoned by another nation, he said.

"He is not a young man, he is not healthy," Privatera said. "We need him to come home."

 Privatera spoke on the rule of law and the forced and unlawful testimony which resulted in Peltier's wrongful conviction and extradition.

Earlier this year, Privatera made a public appeal for clemency.

"Mr President, we appeal directly to you. As a legal scholar, you know that article two, section two of our constitution is one of the strong threads in the fabric of our justice system. It is a responsibility born by the executive. It embraces the power to deliver justice, to exercise mercy, and to be wise in that law given power."

"This is an historic opportunity, Mr. President, to infuse your legacy with soulfulness and wisdom"

"We ask only that you commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier. No further findings have to be made. Commute him after thirty seven years of imprisonment. You have clemency power to say, and we ask that you do it now, that justice has been served by time, sir. And it's time to return Leonard home to his community to work and die on Turtle Mountain."

Privitera said, "Mr President, this case cries out for mercy. It is time to reveal and exercise your power and wisdom judiciously and we plead today that you commute Leonard Peltier's sentence. Be merciful. Be wise. Use your power. Bring Leonard Peltier home."

After lunch, Peter Grant, attorney in Vancouver, British Columbia, testified via Skpe before the Peltier Tribunal. Grant has been at the forefront of the legal struggle of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and involved with the Peltier extradition.

Peltier Tribunal judges questioned Grant on the details of the extradition of Peltier from Canada to the US and misconduct on the part of the United States.

Grant said the testimony of Myrtle Poor Bear was proven to be coerced and untrue. Further, the evidence involving the rifle used in the shootings of the FBI agents could not be proven.

"The only basis of the case against Leonard was gone," Grant said, when asked about the rifle shell casings and firing pen used in the killing of the two FBI agents.

Earlier today, the documentary, "I am Indian Voice, Leonard Peltier" was shown during the morning of the second day of the Tribunal. It is being held at the Radisson at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Oneida Indian land. 

Means said the AIM song was created to honor Raymond Yellow Thunder.

In 1972 Raymond Yellow Thunder, Lakota from Porcupine, S.D., was brutally murdered in the bordertown of Gordon, Nebraska. When Yellow Thunder's relatives sought justice, they found none.

"They stripped him from the waist down and they took him into the American Legion Hall on Saturday night dance," Means said. "They told him to dance Indian."

Raymond Yellow Thunder's feet were burned with cigarettes. "They beat him to death and they found him two days later in a trunk of a car. Nobody would help him."


The Tribunal is being streamed live by Earthcycles.

Also see: Day 1 Peltier Tribunal on Indigenous Rights Reign of Terror on Pine Ridge

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/10/peltier-tribunal-live-oct-2-4-2013.html
Oct. 2 --4 , 2013, Radisson Hotel, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Oneida Nation

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