Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 14, 2017

Sacred Stone Healing Gathering Sept. 18 -- 24, 2017


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Water Protectors Locked Down Inside Cars 'Stop Line 3 Wisconsin'


Five arrested today
Also see Duluth News Star Tribune photos and article at:
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/superior/4328000-pipeline-protesters-lock-down-site-superior




BREAKING NEWS -- Water protectors are locked down inside of cars, to block Michael's Construction truckers from getting to Enbridge Line 3 work site across Wisconsin. #StopLine3 #WildRiceIsLife
Thursday morning, Sept. 14, 2017
Live video below: Superior, Wisconsin police bring in tarp to cover lockdown, arrest of one Native woman in progress, and one other person.
Three people are still lock-downed.





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Mohawk Nation News 'Natural Power'

NATURAL POWER

Posted on September 14, 2017
Mohawk Nation News
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MNN. Sept. 14, 2017. Our family is the plants, earth, all animals, waters and everything in the air. We the people cannot kill or even hurt any of them. We must avoid and try to stop everything that kills all true natural life.
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CLEARCUTTING ALL TREES IN AN AREA CAUSES RAIN TO WASH AWAY ALL NATURAL LIFE. LAND BECOMES BARREN.
In the beginning we tried to adopt the invaders to live like us. They could not as they brought nets, traps and poisons to kill all life on turtle island. 
To the colonists we are like the dust. Our spirit can’t be camouflaged or captured. We appear out of the dust and they watch us but they don’t see us. Then we disappear and go back to our family. 
Creation placed us within our own territory. The invaders have made up false stories about us and turned them into fairy tales.
The people, animals and landscape are inseparable. All follow the rolling clouds. We carry our real stories within us.
To survive we send out our children. They go back and forth in a frequency that no one can hear but us.
The immigrants who occupy their cells watch us through their bars, constantly trying to lure us into their prisons. We go close to them, watch them and go back to our world. Our natural power is creation itself.
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NO ONE BELONGS IN CAGES.
We send messages to the unnatural to help them remove the bars from around their pen. We tug at their ropes.
To survive and avoid the wrath of the unnatural occupiers, we melt away and reappear. They put up cement and marble statues to remind themselves of their lies about them and us. 

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SURPRISE! 
We assess situations constantly to see they adhere to the natural power. Some of us mimic them. Most are not poisoned. We question everything. Our minds will never have the minds of the unnatural which is akin to the mind of a sheep.
We will survive as part of our true natural family. The modern artificial world continues to try to kill our ancient ways. They make wilful strikes against us. We live on our territories. We roam it. Our relations, the winged ones, four legged, the trees, the plants, all depend on us to follow our original instruction. We are to survive and coexist on mother earth as brothers and sisters.
We keep coming back to remind ourselves that we want no part of their greed and viciousness.
Johnny Cash sings: “What have I become? My sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away in the end. And you could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt. If I could start again a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way.”
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September 13, 2017

SECWEPEMC Tiny House Warriors Build to Defend Against Oil Pipeline


Kanahus Manuel works on the first of ten "tiny homes." Photo by Ian Willms

Secwepemc Warriors Build Tiny Houses in Path of Kinder Morgan Pipeline


 VICE: Can you tell me how and why you got into building these tiny homes?
Kanahus Manuel: This idea began when I was down at Standing Rock. Some people from Portland built a tiny house for me and my freedom babies. They built the whole thing in just two-and-a-half days, with solar panels and everything so we could power six laptops. When I came home, I got some other guys from the camp to take it apart and move it to a reserve where they were resisting Keystone XL.
Read interview at VICE:








"Ten tiny houses are about to go head-to-head with a giant proposed oil pipeline. In what some area already dubbing the next 'Standing Rock', Kanahus Manuel, an activist of the Secwepemc Nation is spearheading a team of builders and volunteers from all over North America to construct tiny homes with the aim of halting the expansion of the Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline which would run through 518 kilometres of Secwepemc Territory. The proposed pipeline comes just 3 years after the disastrous incident at Mt Polley, where water and slurry with years worth of mining waste were released into Polley Lake."  
"This group of dedicated activists say that building the tiny homes is not only an act of resistance, but also of creation, building something beautiful, to create hope and create homes for the community." http://www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com/tiny-house-warriors/
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Published on
Friday, September 08, 2017
by
Common Dreams

Inspired by Standing Rock, First Nations 'Tiny House Warriors' Protest Pipeline Project

"As Kinder Morgan tries to force through a pipeline without our consent—risking polluting the land and poisoning our rivers—we are rising up to create a resistance rooted in family, community, and hope."
Read article at Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/09/08/inspired-standing-rock-first-nations-tiny-house-warriors-protest-pipeline-project

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Work has begun on the Tiny House Warriors project, a protest against the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. Activists expect to build 10 homes which will lie on the route of the Kinder Morgan pipeline. (Greenpeace)
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