Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the suits claim, the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by failing in its legal obligation to ensure the tribes got a fair deal.

http://is.gd/4Mvb79


From Information Clearing House

Video

''We are not going to be silenced, no more!'' ''Idle No More'' is a worldwide indigenous movement started by the First Nation Tribes of Canada as a way to help protect the Constitutional Treaty Rights of the Indian Act.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33543.htm

By Johnny Barber

December 29th marks the 122nd anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. It is a story that remains fresh in the lives of many indigenous peoples across America. Each generation is taught to never forget.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33465.htm

Video

A racist paradigm has been created to push native Americans off the land.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33184.htm

Video Interview With Russell Means

''We live in a prisoner of war camp, that s why they call it a reservation''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32849.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/08-9

Columbus Day: No Cause for Celebration
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/08-3



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

Jason Coppola, Truthout: New programs to teach and restore the lost language and cultural heritage of the Lakota Sioux offers hope for the children who live on reservations where dire poverty, suicide, unemployment and substance abuse have become a way of life.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11971-lakota-the-revitalization-of-language-and-the-persistence-of-spirit



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