First Nations Peoples Rights, Amerindian Rights,
Don Morrison, of the Dakota Resource Council, talks with Rachel Maddow about the challenge of holding oil companies responsible for pollution in North Dakota.
Europeans invade Native land then dump radio active waste all over it.
See on www.msnbc.com
“The 17-year-old Manitoba teen lost a younger brother to suicide last year and he says smudging — the practice of burning traditional medicines — is one way that helps him cope with his grief.”
“it’s not that you did wrong, but that you’ll be perceived to have done wrong…” -Father of Jordan Davis
See on www.cbc.ca
Joe McGinnis (Wiyot from the Bear Creek branch), Nicole McGinnis (Hupa Tribe), and their daughter, Tea
Population Numbers and Declines
Year Population or Change
1770 1,000 to 3,300
1858 State militia unit (Trinity Rangers) killed Northern California Natives rampantly for 5 months and were mustered out of service. –North Coast Journal
1860 Twelve massacres over 2 to 5 days by lynch mob of European settlers –North Coast Journal
2004 477
1860 Wiyot Indian Massacre
Indian Island, Humboldt Bay, California
In the early hours of Feb 26 1860 the Whites began their 2 day massacre (up to 5 days by other accounts) on at least 12 CA Indian sites. Dulawat village on Indian Island, on the lower Eel River, at least two locations on the South Spit, at Table Bluff, in the Fortuna area, in the Rio Dell area, at Humboldt Point, several ranches on Elk River, and the village of Kutserwalik at Bucksport.
Cousins Matilda and Nancy Spear gathered up their three children at the start of the massacre and hid with them on the west side of the island. Afterwards, they found seven other children left alive. They put the entire group in a canoe, rowed them across the bay, and then walked to Matilda’s husband’s homestead in Freshwater.75 Nancy later described the massacre to her nephew: “They came like weasels in the night, crawling on their bellies. We were without any men to protect us. We had never fought the white men and had thought they were our friends.”
– (The Matilda & Nancy Spear Memorial Foundation. Brochure. Photocopy in the “Indian Island Massacre” file, Humboldt County Collection, Humboldt State University Library, Arcata.)
“Mount Rushmore (1745m) is a mountain sacred to the Sioux called Six Grandfathers. Whites desecrated it with the faces of four white men carved into its side in the early 1900s.”
Another kickazz post by Abagond.
See on abagond.wordpress.com
The National Congress of American Indians has produced a graphic putting the racially-charged stereotypes of sports organizations into a pretty simple context.
See on gamedayr.com
An Escambia Academy High School student, in Atmore Alabama, said she was denied her diploma and fined $1,000 for wearing a traditional eagle feather at her graduation. It has been …
Click through for video.
See on politicalblindspot.org
“Building Brides is our response to the persistence of violence in our society and against members of our ethnic communities, the most recent instance being that of the killings at the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin.
The primary objective of this event is to create, promote and render a thought-provoking civil discourse among members of our communities.”
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“It was 1902. The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life. The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called “civilized,” so they would stop causing trouble with all of those “unacceptable ways.”
So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the Interior, Department of Indian Affairs, issued a letter instructing that Native people should cut their hair (males), stop painting themselves, start wearing white people’s clothes, stop wearing Indian clothes and blankets, and stop having dances and feasts.”
Eliminate your culture – or else.
My son has long hair and people give me grief about it.
No one gave me grief about my daughter’s long hair.
See on nativeheritageproject.com
“This video recording is from a presentation in Phoenix, Arizona on February 16, 2013. Olin Tezcatlipoca lectures with a poem on the disastrous state of our mental and economic affairs as a Nican Tlaca people, as Indigenous people.”
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“Our Nican Tlaca Indigenous Civilizations began over 6,000 years ago. Europeans destroyed our Nican Tlaca civilizations starting in 1492 with Columbus. We are currently in the process of reconstructing ourselves as independent Nican Tlaca people with our own Nican Tlaca Civilization — forever free of European colonialism.”
See on nicantlaca.com
