Happi American Horse struggling with COVID-19

Article by Brenda Norrell

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Happi American Horse, who locked down at Standing Rock, has been struggling to survive coronavirus in ICU in a Sioux Falls hospital.  Happi's mother Cheryl Angel, who has recovered from the virus, shares her message.

Happi sends this update on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2020:

“Hey everyone as you know last Tuesday I was in a flight for life to Sanford ICU Center here in Sioux Falls. I can't breathe on my own but finally, after who knows how many days it's been I have been transferred out of the ICU wing into a lower level. Although this is good news I am still not out of it and would like to thank everyone who shared and laid some prayers down for me. It means so much thanks for all the care you have shown and please continue to support! It's difficult for me to type at the moment and will leave that to others for more updates until I can do so on my own. I wish I could express more from my heart to yours but the heart has no tongue...oho mitakuye oyasin

In a video message on Facebook, Cheryl Angel sends thanks to everyone praying for her son Happi American Horse, who is hospitalized with COVID-19 and pneumonia. Happi is getting stronger.

Cheryl who has recovered from coronavirus said it is so difficult not to be with loved ones when they are sick. She describes how alone she felt when she was sick with the virus.

"I cried," she said.

"I prayed for energy."

Cheryl said Standing Rock changed her life.

In this two-week prayer vigil on Facebook live, Cheryl shares a song, "Water is Life." She reminds us that we have one another and to remember our friends and relatives who need help now more than ever.

Cheryl and Happi are Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, South Dakota.

Broadcast live in 2016, Debra White Plume describes how the women cried to see how Happi suffered during this lockdown in defense of the water. 

Listen to Debra White Plume

Photos: Happi locked down during the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016. Photo 2: Happi's mom Cheryl Angel sharing a video message today.

Navajo Nation approves hardship assistance to Navajos with federal funds received four months ago

Dine' volunteers struggle to raise their own funds and deliver aid to fellow Dine'. 

Photos by volunteers Mercury Bitsuie, Bitahnii Wilson

Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief by Cassandra Begay.

Navajo government approves coronavirus hardship assistance with CARES Act funds.

Now, 564 Navajos have died from the virus.

Brenda Norrell

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Oct. 9, 2020

WINDOW ROCK, Arizona -- The Navajo Nation approved hardship assistance with federal funds received four months ago for emergency coronavirus relief. Navajos may receive up to $1,500 for adults and $500 for children based on need. The Navajo government received $714 million in CARES Act federal funds in two payments in May and June, but distribution to Navajos was delayed due to the allocation process of the Navajo Nation Council and Navajo President's Office.

With time running out to use the emergency virus relief funds, the Navajo government approved the release of funds on Friday. 

Watch live: Peltier sculpture unveiled in San Francisco

By Joe Kakura 

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Artist Rigo 23 To Unveil Leonard Peltier Statue in SF, Ceremony to be Livestreamed

Rigo 23's large-scale homage to long-jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier will be unveiled Friday for a six-month display in San Francisco, after the FBI had the statue kicked out of Washington, D.C.

It's been about two years since San Francisco officially stopped calling it Columbus Day and started calling it Indigenous Peoples' Day, and that particular holiday is coming up this Monday. (There are, of course, still some hard feelings toward Christopher Columbus). But in honor of the upcoming Indigenous Peoples' Day, the San Francisco Art Institute has announced a Friday unveiling of a Leonard Peltier statue by Rigo 23, an homage the long-incarcerated Native American activist who's been jailed up since 1977. Rigo 23, as you may recall, is the Portuguese-born San Francisco muralist known for long-loved public art like One Tree, Cars and Birds, and the early days of Clarion Alley murals.

U.S. EPA seizes control of Oklahoma Indian lands for hazardous dumping and fracking

U.S. EPA seizes control of Oklahoma Indian lands for 
hazardous dumping and fracking

By Brenda Norrell

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French translation by Christine Prat

It is more race-baiting. The tribes impacted by the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision and all tribes in the state must stand together. Our very existence is at stake. If Stitt has his way the fossil fuel industry will line his pockets with our lifeblood. -- Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Trump administration's EPA granted the state of Oklahoma wide-ranging environmental regulatory control on nearly all tribal lands in the state, stripping dozens of tribes of their sovereignty over critical environmental issues, Ecowatch reports.

The EPA action infuriated Oklahoma’s Ponca Tribe. Casey Camp-Horinek, Environmental Ambassador and Elder and Hereditary Drumkeeper Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, provided the following statement to TYT: