Lakota Youths Running to Cannonball River: Shut Down DAPL Feb. 9, 2021

Lakota Youths Running --  from Standing Rock and Cheyenne River -- to the Cannonball River

Lakota Youths running to the site of the  resistance four and one-half years ago. They are sending a clear message to President Biden: Dakota Access Pipeline is operating illegally -- without a permit -- shut it down!

By Standing Rock Youth Council

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"Today, February 9, 2021, is the day we need everyone to help us make some noise on social media to #ShutDownDAPL run record yourself in solidarity, post on all platforms you have access, or simply share all #shutdownDAPL posts you see. Tag President Biden and VP Harris in the posts and use the hashtags so we can see the post! #shutdownDAPL #BuildBackFossilFree #byedendapl

"Examples of what to write in your posts listed below

"Hey @JoeBiden, the Dakota Access Pipeline continues to operate illegally endangering the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe."

"I am joining Lakota youth’s #NODAPL challenge to demand you #shutdownDAPL. #ByeDenDAPL

@POTUS consultation is not consent and the Standing Rock Sioux are still fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

"I’m taking the Standing Rock Challenge because it’s time to #shutdownDAPL and #BuildBackFossilFree for our youth, land and water."

#ByeDenDAPL

 

Indigenous Water Protector Jailed in North Dakota for Refusing to Cooperate with Secret Grand Jury

Indigenous Water Protector Jailed in North Dakota for Refusing to Cooperate With Secret Grand Jury

Steve Martinez Takes Stand Against Use of Grand Jury to Repress Indigenous Environmental Movement
February 8, 2021

Contact: Leoyla Cowboy, Executive Director, Water Protector Legal Collective

Natali Segovia, Attorney, Water Protector Legal Collective defense@waterprotectorlegal.org Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Attorney at Law

By Water Protector Legal Collective

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BISMSRCK, North Dakota – Water Protector Steve Martinez is confined in Burleigh County Detention Center after refusing, on principle, to give testimony before a federal grand jury. This Grand Jury, like the one at which Martinez refused to testify three years ago, ostensibly involves a criminal investigation into events leading to the grievous injury of Water Protector Sophia Wilansky. It has been the position of Morton County, North Dakota that Ms. Wilansky was not injured as a result of excessive force by law enforcement, but by the actions of Water Protectors. In a federal civil rights lawsuit against Morton County, however, Wilansky says she was shot in the arm with a concussion grenade by a sheriff’s deputy on November 20, 2016, when law enforcement attacked hundreds of unarmed people objecting to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (“DAPL”) with high pressure fire hoses, impact munitions, explosive grenades and chemical weapons.

Akantu -- Origin Series -- Music and Spoken Word CD from Tiokasin Ghosthorse

"AKANTU: ORIGIN SERIES"

New music and spoken word CD from Tiokasin Ghosthorse

By Liz Hill, Ojibwe

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STONE RIDGE, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2021 via REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — "Akantu: Origin Series" is a new CD from Tiokasin Ghosthorse. The CD, which includes four tracks of spoken word and music, is Ghosthorse's fifth release. Like all of Ghosthorse's past projects, "Akantu: Origin Series" was inspired by and is dedicated to Mother Earth.

"Akantu: Origin Series" was recorded live on October 12, 2017 at The National Sawdust in Brooklyn,  New York. "This was a gathering of Original Nations and notions of beings with the elemental evolution of letting the mystery go where it will with music, spoken word and presence," says Ghosthorse.

U.S. argues in court for corporate seizure of Sacred Oak Flat

DOJ ATTORNEY CLAIMS DESTRUCTION OF SACRED OAK FLAT PREVENTING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE "NOT A SUBSTANTIAL BURDEN" FOR APACHE.  JUDGE PROMISES RULING BY FEBRUARY 12.

By Apache Stronghold 

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French translation by Christine Prat

Feb. 4, 2021

PHOENIX – In a riveting and emotional hearing in front of U.S. District Court Judge Steven Logan at the Federal Court in Phoenix, the Department of Justice attorney claimed that the destruction of Oak Flat, or Chi'chil Bildagoteel, was "not a substantial burden" even though it would prevent the Apache from practicing their religion.

After running the 70 miles from Oak Flat to the Courthouse, Dr. Wendsler Nosie and Naelyn Pike testified regarding the importance of Chi'chil Bildagoteel to the Apache.