Jason Coppola, Truthout: The sacred lands of the Lakota are up for sale, again. A grassroots effort led by the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, is underway to get them back. On August 25 at 10 AM, nearly 2,000 acres of land, known as Pe' Sla to the Lakota people and situated in the Black Hills of South Dakota, will be put up for public auction and sold to the highest bidder. The state of South Dakota has expressed interest in using eminent domain to pave one of the roads that runs through it. The land is currently known as the Reynolds Prairie Ranches.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11035-exclusive-truthout-interview-sioux-spiritual-leader-speaks-out-on-land-sale-at-sacred-site



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

By Chris McGreal in Washington

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31256.htm

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





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





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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