Drumbeat (Issues of environmental concern)

US Bill Seeks First Native American Land Grab in 100 Years

sandil — 2016-09-20T20:28:00Z

Two U.S. congress people will propose in the coming weeks a bill that would see thousands of acres of Indigenous lands turned into oil drilling zones.

http://tinyurl.com/zo463so

From Information Clearing House

http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=indigenous
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Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native Americans With Dogs and Pepper Spray

sandil — 2016-09-06T20:40:00Z

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: On Saturday in North Dakota, security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they resisted the $3.8 billion pipeline s construction. The land that Dakota Access bulldozed on Saturday was a tribal burial site.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37507-dakota-access-pipeline-company-attacks-native-americans-with-dogs-and-pepper-spray

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

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman: Dakota Access Pipeline 'Is Threatening the Lives...

sandil — 2016-08-23T19:47:00Z

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: In North Dakota, Indigenous activists from dozens of different tribes are protesting a proposed pipeline, which they say would threaten to contaminate the Missouri River. The protests have shut down construction along parts of the pipeline.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37339-standing-rock-sioux-chairman-dakota-access-pipeline-is-threatening-the-lives-of-my-tribe

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Corporate Conquistadors Violate Indigenous Lands and Bodies

sandil — 2016-08-23T04:07:00Z

Pamela D. Palmater, teleSUR: For decades, the primary focus of anti-mining, logging and oil-and-gas activists has been on the environmental destruction left behind by the extractive industry. What is less known by the general public are the unique traumas experienced by Indigenous women when corporations invade their lands and their bodies.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37315-corporate-conquistadors-violate-indigenous-lands-and-bodies

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

Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide

sandil — 2016-06-04T20:09:00Z

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, History News Network: The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced has been modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed by government armies, into foreign areas, with subsequent expropriation of lands and resources. Settler colonialism requires a genocidal policy.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36257-yes-native-americans-were-the-victims-of-genocide

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The Thanksgiving Myth: Reflecting on Land Theft, Betrayal and Genocide

sandil — 2015-11-26T04:55:00Z

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/stories/14989/

In the Land of My Ancestors: Native Woman Stands Her Ground in Ohlone Territory

sandil — 2015-10-13T03:51:00Z

Rucha Chitnis, Indian Country Today Media Network: Ann Marie Sayers is a rare example of a Native woman who continues to live in her ancestral land. California Indians suffered a brutal history of colonization, diseases and heinous violence and servitude during the Gold Rush and California Missions era.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33194-in-the-land-of-my-ancestors-native-woman-stands-her-ground-in-ohlone-territory

Native Americans and US Scorched Earth Continuum

sandil — 2015-08-29T07:48:00Z

By Finian Cunningham

Today the Navajo and their Apache cousins are once again under threat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42741.htm

http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Navajo
http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Apache

Senator John McCain Chased off the Navajo Nation

sandil — 2015-08-20T03:34:00Z

Dozens of Diné (Navajo) took action to resist U.S. Senator John McCain s attempts to steal precious water and desecrate sacred lands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=77&v=xlkEraYbUko

From Information Clearing House

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

Police Shoot and Kill Mentally Ill Native American Man

sandil — 2015-07-30T06:29:00Z

s.e. smith, Care2: Earlier this month, Denver police shot and killed Paul Castaway, a Lakota Sioux man living with mental illness. His case illustrates two issues that are flying under the radar: that more than half of fatal shootings involve mentally ill people, and that Native Americans are statistically more at risk of dying in police shootings than other racial groups.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32120-police-shoot-and-kill-mentally-ill-native-american-man

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

Indigenous Children Face Extreme Rates of State Violence in US

sandil — 2015-07-12T20:40:00Z

Britney Schultz, Truthout: Native children in the US are being removed from their homes and tribes to be placed with white foster families or into institutions that are often havens of neglect and abuse, which sometimes have political conflicts of interest.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31802-indigenous-children-face-extreme-rates-of-removal-and-state-violence

Canada Committed Genocide

sandil — 2015-06-14T03:33:00Z

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/stories/14629/

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

Canada Was Killing Indians

sandil — 2015-06-10T06:54:00Z

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/stories/14606/

Lakota Sioux Tribe Invokes "Bad Men" Treaty Clause Over Keystone Pipeline

sandil — 2015-05-10T20:27:00Z

Emerson Urry, EnviroNews: The Lower Brule Lakota Sioux Tribe of South Dakota invoked a clause from the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, wherein the US government agreed to "proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States." The accused "offender" in this case: foreign tar sands pipeline company TransCanada.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30696-lakota-sioux-tribe-invokes-bad-men-treaty-clause-over-keystone-pipeline

http://warpath.twoday.net/search?q=Sioux
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I Am An American Indian Patriot

sandil — 2015-04-30T06:49:00Z

Video

*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