Bringing the Ancestors Home

Les Williston at Choctaw cultural gathering. Photo courtesy Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Bringing the Ancestors Home 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma --Les Williston, Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"Your ancestors are always around," Williston said, speaking of the sacred places along the rivers.

Convening of Four Winds at Phillip Deere Round House in Oklahoma, Day 2

Future leaders at Convening of Four Winds today at Phillip Deere Round House. Photo Movement Rights

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, speaking today, Sunday.

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said this is a continuation of the Warrior Way, and she spoke of the joy of being with her family here, and remembering the AIM warriors, her family at Wounded Knee. "And yet my babies in Palestine are being murdered. I see the war in Ukraine. I see the United States government still inflicting genocide on my people, and trying to kill the river herself."

"At this time, we are one."

Convening of Four Winds at Phillip Deere Round House in Okemah, Oklahoma, Today, Sunday

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 8, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca, is speaking on adaptation in this time of change and trauma, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Casey is joined by her daughter Julia Horinek, and they are speaking on free, prior and informed consent as stated in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature.

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Live from Phillip Deere Roundhouse in Okemah, Oklahoma: Third Convening of the Four Winds

“The Longest Walk is not over. We all have our Longest Walk. We all have our history of relocation and forced removals.” –Phillip Deere

Live from Phillip Deere Roundhouse in Okemah, Oklahoma: Third Convening of the Four Winds

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 7, 2024

Live radio broadcast by Govinda Dalton

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- The gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House began this morning with good words from Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, and traditional Traditional Mvskoke and Chahta (Choctaw) from Oklahoma and Mississippi.

Mvskoke Samuel 'Bonnie' Deere, son of Phillip Deere, spoke on the creation of the Phillip Deere Round House, and the devastation of 57 Mvskoke ancestors being dug up in Alabama for a casino.