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

Jason Coppola, Truthout: 'As people gather to protest the greed and corruption of Wall Street in downtown Manhattan and throughout the world, the territories of indigenous peoples and nations have been the front lines of this conflict for a long, long, time. Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Pukatawagan Cree Nation, is an anti-tar sands campaigner with the Indigenous Environmental Network, and is responsible for coordinating an indigenous team which operates both in the United States and Canada supporting locally led tactics and strategies aimed at stopping the Canadian tar sands expansion and its encroachment into traditional and treaty territories of first nations in Alberta and British Columbia.'

http://www.truth-out.org/lakota-tribes-refuse-cooperate-tar-sands-proponents/1320241082

Alleen Brown, In These Times: 'Indians cannot sell or lease their trust land without federal approval, and the government is supposed to distribute any revenues earned from the land (through leasing to farmers, railroads, mining companies and other private interests) to the individual landowners. As soon as the first allottees died, the government began dividing property among their descendents. But heirs did not inherit pieces of land with specific boundaries. Instead, they inherited fractions of the title - a title held in trust by the federal government. This system leaves most allotment heirs with tiny, in effect unusable, fractions of ownership.'

http://www.truth-out.org/land-our-land/1309359074

Wallow Fire ~ Special Request from our Native Brothers and Sisters

Sent from a 'Navajo sister' to all of us.

The Wallow Fire in Arizona, the largest in Arizona history, is still only half contained. The fire has destroyed everything in its path, over a half million acres so far. Not only are our tribal lands at stake (White Mountain & San Carlos Apaches, possibly Zuni, and some Navajo areas), but our non-native friends also need our help.

All the choppers, manpower, planes, and bulldozers are not enough. They need our help.

We are one Nation as Natives and our traditional prayers to the Creator as Natives can be very powerful, especially when we all connect our minds, hearts and our prayers across the miles and pray.

Please join us in a tribal prayer to help the firefighters and all involved. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing right now, please stop for a few minutes and raise your hands to the Creator to ask for help:

'I pray so the winds stop and the rains start (without lightning please). I pray for the safety of all humans, birds and animals. I ask for heavenly walls to protect our land and animals from fire'.

If your spiritual preference is not traditional, pray with us in however way you talk to the Creator.

If all of you can forward this message across the Nations, we can reach many thru phone and internet. Please start forwarding ASAP to reach as many as we can.

Thank you,

Dorothea Stevens,
San Carlos Apache Nation



http://www.google.de/search?q=Wallow+Fire

Jason Coppola, Truthout: 'On March 28, President Obama, in his address to the nation concerning events in Libya, declared, 'Wherever people long to be free, they will find a friend in the United States.' Here at home, it's been a different story. The violations of the treaties threaten the very way of life of the Lakota as uranium mining runoff poisons their land and water with radioactive waste and they continue their fight to live according to their 'traditional value system in rejection of a colonized world view,' says Sicangu Lakota linguist and lifelong activist Rosalie Little Thunder.'

http://www.truth-out.org/international-court-justice-lakotas-last-stand/1305292749



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

Vincent Warren, Truthout: 'The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a statement concerning the hearing before the United States Court of Military Commission Review in United States v. Al Bahlul, before its scheduled date of March 17, 2011. Al Bahlul is the first appeal of a Guantanamo military commission conviction to proceed before the Court of Military Commission Review. The case is notable because, in essence, it is a conviction in desperate search of supporting war crimes. But it's also notable for the ahistorical and racist rhetoric in the government briefs that suggest equivalency between Native Americans resisting US takeover of their homelands and al-Qaeda.'

http://truthout.org/government-calls-native-american-resistance-1800s-much-modern-day-al-qaeda/1302505200

By Valerie Taliman

A groundbreaking report examining the roots of Christian domination over indigenous peoples and their lands was released this week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25378.htm