Wealthy exploit & silence Native Americans, Indigenous cultures, women, children, nature

Turtle Island Project: Wealthy exploit & silence Native Americans, Indigenous cultures, women, children, nature

(Marquette, Michigan) - Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples plus women, children and nature are degraded and silenced by the rich and powerful, said Turtle Island Project Director and Co-founder Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard recently while discussing Author Derrick Jensen's book "A language older than words."

Rev. Hubbard said some Americans - often wealthy white men and some corporations - exploit and ignore the voices of Indigenous peoples like Native Americans and other cultures and the voices of women and children - and ignore the cries of nature because we live in a silent world.

"This silencing is central to the workings of our culture," Hubbard said.

"The staunch refusal to hear the voices of those we exploit is crucial to our domination of them," Hubbard said.

"Religion, science, philosophy, politics, education, psychology, medicine, literature, linguistics and art have all been pressed into service as tools to rationalize the silencing and degradation of women, children, other races, other cultures, the natural world and its members." Hubbard said.

The third in a series, this video was made as Hubbard made two presentations on September 24, 2008 during the third annual UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.

Lakota domestic violence activist Tillie Black Bear, co-founder of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, also spoke at the event as a guest of the Turtle Island Project.

Some of the quotes from talks by Rev. Hubbard and Tillie Black Bear were used in Indian Country Today newspaper in stories written by Greg Peterson, the New York-based paper's Great Lakes correspondent and volunteer media advisor for the nonprofit Turtle Island Project:

Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard - Indian Country Today:
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/33082129.html

Tillie Black Bear - Indian Country Today:
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/health/36061724.html
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/health/37893474.html

Turtle Island Project:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject

TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Author Derrick Jensen:
http://www.derrickjensen.org
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen

Derrick Jensen book "A language older than words."
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/1931498555
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Language-Older-Than-Words/dp/0285636243
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/a_language_older_than_words:paperback

Derrick Jensen:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/awards12292006/
http://www.blackoakmedia.org/interviews/jensen.html
http://www.nocompromise.org/issues/26jensen.html

Jensen's latest book "endgame"
http://www.endgamethebook.org
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NMU Center for Native American Studies:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies

Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855

April Lindala, Director
906-227-1397
nasa@nmu.edu
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555

http://www.wbcws.org
605-856-2317

Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
http://www.nmu.edu/UNITED

Dr. Judith Puncochar, NMU Professor
906-227-1366