Mohawk Nation News 'Northern Gatekeepers' Cree youth trekkers

NORTHERN GATEKEEPERS

MNN. Mar. 8, 2013. The Northern Cree of Hudson’s-James Bay [Quebec] are walking for unity. The six Great Whale Indigenous youth and their master hunter are going to Ottawa, by foot, for 1,500 kilometers in -40 C. weather. They are trekking along a traditional trade route and reminding us of historical alliance between Cree, Algonquin, Mohawk and other Indigenous nations in Quebec.

Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water Begins

Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water

By Debra White Plume

March 8, 2013

www.tarsandsblockade.org

Reposted at Censored News
French translation by Christine Prat

 

Update: Friday, March 8 - Moccasins on the Ground: Frontline Activist Training begins
Moccasins on the Ground training at Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota kicked off today with celebration and ceremony. Debra White Plume, Lakota Grandmother, spoke about the goal for the weekend:

“This training is a message to Obama and TransCanada that if they try to build KXL we’ll be here to meet them with our moccasins on the ground.”

Debra White Plume 'Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water'

Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water

by Debra White Plume

Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Lakota know we love Unci Maka. All of Unci Maka. Our ancestors were free, to follow the Star Nation Path (the Good Red Road), to roam, to hunt, to be happy, to have sacred water. Then one day, FAT TAKER came thru camp, and stole the fat that many women prepared to get their lodges through the harsh prairie winters. From then on, it was the beginning of a war our ancestors waged in defense of their children, their babies, their, and our, sacred path of life. The gunfire may have ended at Wounded Knee in 1890 on that day when the 7th Calvary massacred unarmed women, children, old people, and men. But the war continues.

Mohawk Women rallied with Hugo Chavez against Colonial Oppression

Mohawk women were among the Indigenous gathered in Venezuela, organizing against colonial oppression, in 2007. Today, in honor of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Censored News, with permission from Mohawk Nation News, republishes the Mohawk women's statement. "Our perception is that the material world is to be shared and distributed equally. Our ancestors knew that when a hunter went into the woods and brought back a deer, the entire community shared in that bounty. This is common to all Indigenous peoples of the world. Those who have fallen away from these simple concepts and now practice colonialism must be brought back into the human family and saved from themselves."