Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 4, 2017

'To Save the Water, We Must Break the Cycle of Colonial Trauma'


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Photo: Mass arrest at Last Child Camp, Feb.1, named in honor of the Warrior Society of Crazy Horse.

'Last Child Camp' Warriors Released from Jail

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Water protectors arrested at Last Child Camp on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, 
named in honor of the Warrior Society of Crazy Horse.
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Posted with permission of HolyElk.

Below: 76 Water Protectors Arrested
Below: Watch video of Chase Iron Eyes of Standing Rock, publisher of Last Real Indians, and former Congressional delegate, after being released from Morton County Jail on Friday.


Water protectors arrested at Last Child Camp, named in honor of the Warrior Society of Crazy Horse, were released from jail on Friday, after spending two nights in jail. Police are now occupying the hill where the camp was established, following the arrest of 76 water protectors.

Chase Iron Eyes said, "I'm free from custody, facing 5 years in prison. I love you all. I really do. Thank you to all water protectors who've sacrificed liberty to create liberty for our people, for this country. Morton County is charging me with felony Inciting a Riot (Vanessa Castle is facing the same Trumped up charges, 75 other WaterProtectors are facing criminal trespass, engaging in a riot ). Donald Trump is the one inciting riots with the millions taking to the streets, 10,000s shutting down airports and ready to strike. This is our fight against tyranny right now. Get woke & stay woke. We will fight on."

February 3, 2017

Black Hoop Camp -- Traditional Camp NODAPL!


Tom Black Hoop Memorial Camp Opening

By Tom Black Hoop Memorial Camp
Censored News

The Tom Black Hoop Memorial Camp was established in direct response to the concerns the people of Cannon Ball expressed and to assuage concerns directly expressed by the members and residents of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe recently passed resolution 007-17 saying that they will use federal agents to close all water protector camps. However, we the grassroots people of Standing Rock stand united in prayerful action to stop Dakota Access Pipeline as it’s a direct threat to the drinking water of our tribe, our sister tribes to the south along the Missouri River and to 17 million people down river who need clean water to live and survive.
Most of the bad elements have left camps. We encourage SRST to gather evidence based on law not gossip to prove bad men but saying one person making death threats, or a few people doing drugs is going down a slippery slope argument. All our communities on Standing Rock have meth, alcoholics, and other bad men, are we going to condemn all our people because of societal ills and colonization? We are fighting colonization.
The call to help Standing Rock started in a basement in McLaughlin SD on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. This movement has always been grassroots led. We the grassroots of Standing Rock put out a call for help and our relatives from the Keystone XL pipe answered the call.They called on their youth, and the youth answered the call and came to our meetings.
We are not allowing alcohol, or drugs,or firearms and no tolerance for violence. We are going to a traditional set up for the camp, taking only the best that has been learned over these months and using that to move forward in a good, prayerful way. We are providing shelter for women, children, elders. And families that have left everything behind to stand with us.
We do believe in Non violent direct action, but prayer first and for most and that is what will move us forward. The spirits told us to move to higher ground we are following what ceremony told us to do, t
move to higher ground, to return to our traditional ways and be prayerful.
We have created a council and one PayPal, please share and give if you can www.paypal.me/blackhoop



February 2, 2017

Police and Army Corps at Sacred Stone Camp -- Feb. 2, 2017



Police and Army Corps enter Sacred Stones Camp without permission

Seventy-six water protectors arrested on Wednesday will have to spend a second night in jail, as no charges have been filed

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Feb. 2, 2017

SACRED STONE CAMP -- Police, federal agents and Army Corps entered Sacred Stone Camp without permission at noon today, Thursday, Feb. 2.

LaDonna Allard said, "They are raiding Sacred Stone now with Frank White Bull, Ben Harrison and with BIA police."
"Invading Sacred Stone camp by the Standing Rock Tribal Council betrayed by our own nation," said Allard, land owner where Sacred Stone Camp, the original camp of water protectors, is located.
BIA police, Fish and Wildlife agents, Army Corps and Tribal officials entered Sacred Stone Camp. At the lower part of Sacred Stone Camp, known as yurt village, agents told those present that the lower part of Sacred Stone is in the flood plain.
The agents took photos and gathered information for their benefit. The Army Corps said the purpose was for assessment of the flood plain.
The police and agents entered Sacred Stone Camp without permission or a warrant.
In recent days, the Standing Rock Chairman and Tribal Council have brought into the camps all the police forces -- the same ones who have been shooting the water protectors.
This comes after the Standing Rock Tribal Council 'reallocated' $3.2 million of the funds, which were donated for the camps, for the tribe's own use. The tribe has not released the exact amount of donations to the camps, or the specific purpose that millions were donated for.
About 700 water protectors have been arrested, and many are in need of attorneys, court costs and fines.
Yesterday, on Wednesday, 76 water protectors were arrested as they established a new camp, Last Child, in honor of the Warrior Society of Crazy Horse.
Chase Iron Eyes of Standing Rock, former Congressional delegate and publisher of Last Real Indians, was among those arrested.
Last Real Indians said Thursday afternoon that those arrested on Wednesday would have to spend a second night in jail. The prosecutor had not submitted the paper work on the charges, and those arrested were unable to go before the judge. 
The 76 arrested are being held, without charges, in Morton County and other North Dakota counties, according to Last Real Indians.
In what water protectors say is an act of betrayal, Chairman Dave Archambault issued a statement last night disavowing the water protectors who were arrested on Wednesday.
"Last night, a group of campers moved materials onto private land. This group’s actions do not represent the tribe nor the original intent of the water protectors," Archambault said. Archambault maintains that the battle must be fought in the U.S. courts. (Read the statement on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Facebook page.)
LaDonna Allard and the Red Warrior Society remind the people that this fight for sacred water was never led by the tribal council, mandated by the U.S. government, but it is a movement of the people -- the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota people.
Allard also pointed out that Sitting Bull was killed by his own people.
Sitting Bull was killed by Indian police at Standing Rock.




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