Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 26, 2014

Day 3 Boarding School Tribunal!

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Day 3 Live at the Boarding School Tribunal in Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Bill Means: "We are rebuilding our nations, because we have treaties"

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
More testimony from Day 3: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/10/conclusions-boarding-school-tribunal.html

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- The Boarding School Tribunal began its third and final day with speakers on Language Revitalization and the testimony of Bill Means, Lakota. Madonna Thunder Hawk shared the story of a Lakota elder from Cheyenne River in South Dakota. At four years old, he was thrown against the wall repeatedly until his bones were broken for wetting the bed in boarding school. His back is still scared from the beatings there.
Bill Miller center photo Brenda Norrell
Bill Means, the brother of Russell Means, said the boarding school concept began in prison. It was Fort Marion in Florida where they kept Indian leaders who fought against the US.
Richard Henry Pratt began to teach the prisoners and transform them. He later created Carlisle, and the concept, "Kill the Indian and save the man."
In the Dakotas was the boarding schools where Means parents met.
One of the common punishments was for speaking your language.
"The most severe punishment was if they heard you singing songs in public."
Means said his mother didn't talk about it until she was older.

October 25, 2014

Mohawk Nation News 'Nazi Canada'


NAZI CANADA


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MNN. Oct. 25, 2014. The false flag gunfight on Parliament Hill was Hitler’s Reichtag fire of February 1933. Canada’s new anti-terror law is the model for the Nazi takeover of the world. Within days democracy was shut down. Now martial law can be declared, armed soldiers sent into residential areas, free radio and TV stations and personal computers taken over, passes restricting travel, which was done to the Indigenous, and “activists” taken into custody or disappeared for their thoughts. Thousands of Indigenous women have been disappeared already. Interpol Internet Cyber Crime Unit
General Harper to Bibeau.
Herr Harper radicalizing the Islamists. 
How Canada is a Nazi state: a terrifying secret enemy is invoked. Canada’s version of thePatriot Act or Hitler’s Enabling Act of 1933, was passed. Canada has no constitution. It’s a military corporation. The fake global “war on terror” is to keep people in constant fear so they willingly give up their freedoms.
Even though Canada is at its lowest crime rate ever, Prime Minister Harper is building massive private super prisons. At first troublemakers, spies, “enemies of the people” or “criminals” are jailed without charge. Then civil society, like labor activists and alternative journalists will be targeted as new inmates.
Is this what Harper's false flag was all about?
Is the false flag?? 
Thugs like the “pipeline police” are contracted to scare, control and murder citizens for the corporations. These private armies are recruited globally and free from prosecution in the jurisdictions they’re sent to. Harper’s “Hail Mary” is the Patriot Act for the new world order team he is quarterbacking. Canadians have been given a version of the genocidal Indian Act that Canada exists on to this day. He wants all Canadians under his new Indian Act, which is, assimilation flipped backwards. They will fill his “prisoner-for-profit jails”! The thought crime potential has been announced. Watch for the new Indian agents trolling every community/reservation to harass, beat and disappear millions of Canadian boys and girls as threats against corporatism.
Streamline surveillance. Cell phones will be routed through local police. Neighbors will spy on each other as per George Orwell’s “1984”.
Infiltrate and harass citizens’ groups. Investigate their taxes. Leave Nazi supporters alone. Anti-war, environmentalists and other groups are infiltrated. Maintain a database of peace and any protesters. Terrorism is whatever they decide. Anti-war marchers are potential terrorists and put on a watch list. Once you are on the list, you on for good.
Civil servants who don’t agree with the fascist ideology will be purged. Hitler passed the Reich Law for the Re-establishment of a Professional Civil Service on April 7 1933. Harpers’ omnibus bills eliminated scientists, environmentalists, legalized the genocide and re-wrote history.
Ministry of Propganda is the mainstream media. Goebbels and Hitler are cheering Herr Harper from the grave. Soon the new anti-terrorism law will require that citizens raise their left arm and shout “Heil Harper”. Dissent is treason and criticism is “espionage’. The penalty is life imprisonment. There is no rule of law and no constitution. Only a police state.
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Canada was never a country. It has always and still is ISO #3166-1. Under international law they legally don’t have a land base or language and are thus not sovereign to Great Turtle Island.
The Canadian citizen is the new “Indian”. To survive they have to follow the white roots of peace, the Guswentha and discover the Kaianerekowa, the key to peace on earth.
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Action begins over Navajo sheep impoundments, Peabody Coal




Peabody Coal is the terrorist!
Action begins on Black Mesa in response to the livestock impoundments of Navajo sheep of those resisting relocation on Hopi Partitioned Land, Turquoise Trail Rd
Read more: Widespread sheep impoundments, one Navajo arrested:  http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/10/call-for-help-sheep-impounded-arrest-of.html

(Below) Protesting the monster of uranium mining at the Tuba City Parade on the Navajo Nation

Indigenous Congress and Zapatistas Declaration for Ayotzinapa and Yaqui

Joint Declaration from the National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN on the crime in Ayotzinapa and for the liberation of the Yaqui leaders


Joint Declaration from the National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN on the crime in Ayotzinapa and for the liberation of the Yaqui leaders
(Note: this text was read by CNI members in one of the mobilizations held in Mexico on October 22, 2014, and not by EZLN representatives, as some of the paid press reported.)
Mexico, October 22, 2014
To the students of the Normal Rural Isidro Burgos, in Ayotiznapa, Guerrero
To the Yaqui Tribe
To the National and International Sixth
To the peoples of the world
“Because those of us below hurt with rage and rebellion, not with resignation and conformity.”
EZLN, October 19, 2014
From our peoples in struggle, from within our resistance and rebellion, we send our words as a reflection of this part of the country that we have constitute and call the National Indigenous Congress. We are gathered by the pain and the rage that call to us because it is a pain and rage that we share.

Beatings and Shame: Native Americans Testify at Boarding School Tribunal

By Brenda Norrell
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- The testimony of Native Americans who were beaten in boarding schools concluded on Friday, during the three day Boarding School Tribunal here. Native Americans described being kidnapped from their families and not seeing them for years, while they endured severe beatings and starvation in boarding schools operated by the governments of the United States and Canada and religious organizations.
Imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier’s written statement was read into the record, describing the way he was kidnapped and beaten in boarding school.
Madonna Thunder Hawk shared the story of a Lakota elder from Cheyenne River in South Dakota. At four years old, he was thrown against the wall repeatedly until his bones were broken for wetting the bed in boarding school. Now, he is over 70 years old and his back is still scarred from the beatings there.

October 24, 2014

Leonard Peltier's Testimony to Boarding School Tribunal



Written Testimony by imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier. Testimony read into the record by Dorothy Ninham, at the Boarding School Tribunal in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNSa5vX1qY

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Dutch translation by NAIS

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- Imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier described when he was kidnapped from his family at the age of nine, along with his sister and cousin, in a statement read into the record during the Boarding School Tribunal here. 
Dorothy Ninham read Peltier's statement.
Peltier described when the men came for him as a child living with his grandmother. Peltier knew he was supposed to run, but he was curious. He watched as if he was in a trance. When he heard the word "boarding school," he wanted to run into the woods, but he didn't want to leave his grandmother, sister and cousin. He feared his grandmother would be taken to jail.
Peltier froze in place, even when his grandmother told him in Chippewa to run and hide.
Then he was taken away with his sister and cousin. He wanted to escape, but he didn't know where he was being taken or how to escape.
Later his cousin, Pauline, was placed in an insane asylum. The school said she had fallen and hit her head.
Peltier described what happened when he arrived at the boarding school. First, there were the buzz haircuts which made the youngest ones cry. Peltier was put in charge of taking care of a younger boy. Peltier was punished for not scrubbing him hard enough in the bath because the young boy started to cry from the scrub brush.
Peltier tried to escape and he and another boy made their escape across the thin ice of a river.
As night approached, it was cold, and they returned to the boarding school. They had to face the music, another haircut, 10 whacks with the ruler, and they had to wear oversized clothes and shoes to show the other children they were runaways.
After reading the statement, Dorothy Ninham said boarding schools set up children for the US military or prison.
"It seems that everything was geared for our people to go from one institution to another," Ninham said.
The boarding schools began identity theft. In Indian country that identity theft means taking our language, our culture and our way of life, she said.
Ninham said there should be a class action lawsuit against the US government and the churches because of what happened in the US boarding schools.
Listen to Peltier's detailed statement of being stolen from his family and his years in boarding school, read by Dorothy Ninham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNSa5vX1qY

“My crime’s being an Indian. What’s yours?”
In his autobiography My Life Is My Sun Dance, Leonard says:
“I know what I am. I am an Indian--an Indian who dared to stand up to defend his people. I am an innocent man who never murdered anyone nor wanted to. And, yes, I am a Sun Dancer. That, too, is my identity. If I am to suffer as a symbol of my people, then I suffer proudly. I will never yield.” 
Leonard tells us that when he was nine years old a big black government car drove up to his house to take him and the other kids away to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota. When they got there, they cut off their long hair, stripped them, and doused them with DDT powder.
“I thought I was going to die...that place...was more like a reformatory than a school...I consider my years at Wahpenton my first imprisonment, and it was for the same crime as all the others: being an Indian.”
http://www.iacenter.org/prisoners/peltier/lp_silencescreams-091207/

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Boarding School Tribunal
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