Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''When the most basic elements that sustain life are reduced to a cash product, life has no intrinsic value. The extinguishing of 'primitive' societies, those that were defined by animism and mysticism, those that celebrated ambiguity and mystery, those that respected the centrality of the human imagination, removed the only ideological counterweight to a self-devouring capitalist ideology.... The war on the Native Americans ... was waged to eradicate not only a people but a competing ethic.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8808-when-civilizations-die

Acton Institute
by Anthony B. Bradley

04/25/12

If anyone believes the federal government knows what is best for local communities, they should visit an American Indian Reservation. Native Americans are currently immersed in a health care and economic deprivation nightmare that is the consequence of government interference, inefficiency, and inhumane policies. The Native American narrative is one of government creating problems and then, in the name of offering solutions, making matters worse by depriving local communities of their autonomy...

http://tinyurl.com/7acu2jm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Zero Gov
by Bill Buppert

04/09/12

Russell Means told the Federal government the Lakota Sioux were going to secede and we are still waiting. The American Indians are ideally positioned to break away from the US in the most expeditious means possible if they would simply do it. Since first contact in the early sixteenth century, the original inhabitants of the North American continent have been getting a raw deal. Treaty after treaty has been broken and the concomitant trail of tears has been a veritable river...

http://zerogov.com/?p=2631


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Lakota

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4297.shtml





http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Lakota

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4297.shtml





http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Lakota

By William Loren Katz

This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30416.htm

By Buffy Sainte-Marie

''My point in the song is that the American people haven t been given a fair share at learning the true history of the American Indian.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30280.htm

Rose Aguilar, Truthout: 'From 1879 until the 1960s, more than 100,000 American Indian children were forced to attend boarding schools. Children were forcibly removed or kidnapped from their homes and taken to the schools. Families risked imprisonment if they stood in the way or attempted to take their children back…. A new documentary, 'The Thick Dark Fog,' shines a light on the traumatic boarding school experience through the telling of personal stories. The film focuses on Walter Littlemoon, a Lakota who was forced to attend a federal government boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in the 1950s. Littlemoon says his culture, language and spirituality were brutally suppressed.'

http://www.truth-out.org/new-documentary-tracks-cultural-genocide-american-indians/1322003627