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Making Rice Beer

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Incredible India: the Northeast

A film showing the culture of India's northeastern states.

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2010 Dedicated to all human be-ings, you know who you are!-)

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Cute Navajo kids during second week of school at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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2009 Navajo Lutheran Mission Rock Point, AZ: Volunteers from Pittsburgh area churches paint murals

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2009 Navajo livestock vaccination: Navajo Lutheran Mission group from Sacramento Church of the Cross

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Fashion Fridays!

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Political Prisoner in America!! Native American Activist Peltier Speaks on Denied Parole

Sept 15 2009
"The United States Department of Justice has once again made a mockery of its lofty and pretentious title.

After releasing an original and continuing disciple of death cult leader Charles Manson who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford, an admitted Croatian terrorist, and another attempted assassin of President Ford under the mandatory 30-year parole law, the U.S. Parole Commission deemed that my release would “promote disrespect for the law.”

If only the federal government would have respected its own laws, not to mention the treaties that are, under the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land, I would never have been convicted nor forced to spend more than half my life in captivity. Not to mention the fact that every law in this country was created without the consent of Native peoples and is applied unequally at our expense. If nothing else, my experience should raise serious questions about the FBI's supposed jurisdiction in Indian Country.

The parole commission's phrase was lifted from soon-to-be former U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley, who apparently hopes to ride with the FBI cavalry into the office of North Dakota governor. In this Wrigley is following in the footsteps of William Janklow, who built his political career on his reputation as an Indian fighter, moving on up from tribal attorney (and alleged rapist of a Native minor) to state attorney general, South Dakota governor, and U.S. Congressman. Some might recall that Janklow claimed responsibility for dissuading President Clinton from pardoning me before he was convicted of manslaughter. Janklow's historical predecessor, George Armstrong Custer, similarly hoped that a glorious massacre of the Sioux would propel him to the White House, and we all know what happened to him.

Unlike the barbarians that bay for my blood in the corridors of power, however, Native people are true humanitarians who pray for our enemies. Yet we must be realistic enough to organize for our own freedom and equality as nations. We constitute 5% of the population of North Dakota and 10% of South Dakota and we could utilize that influence to promote our own power on the reservations, where our focus should be. If we organized as a voting bloc, we could defeat the entire premise of the competition between the Dakotas as to which is the most racist. In the 1970s we were forced to take up arms to affirm our right to survival and self-defense, but today the war is one of ideas. We must now stand up to armed oppression and colonization with our bodies and our minds. International law is on our side.

Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence. In Iran, political prisoners are occasionally released if they confess to the ridiculous charges on which they are dragged into court, in order to discredit and intimidate them and other like-minded citizens. The FBI and its mouthpieces have suggested the same, as did the parole commission in 1993, when it ruled that my refusal to confess was grounds for denial of parole"......
"In America, there can by definition be no political prisoners, only those duly judged guilty in a court of law. It is deemed too controversial to even publicly contemplate that the federal government might fabricate and suppress evidence to defeat those deemed political enemies. But it is a demonstrable fact at every stage of my case.

I am Barack Obama's political prisoner now, and I hope and pray that he will adhere to the ideals that impelled him to run for president. But as Obama himself would acknowledge, if we are expecting him to solve our problems, we missed the point of his campaign. Only by organizing in our own communities and pressuring our supposed leaders can we bring about the changes that we all so desperately need"...Leonard Peltier
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http://blogs.myspace.com/freepeltierSept 15 2009 "The United States Department of Justice has once again made a... more

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Lwanda: The Musical

Lwanda is Kenya's leading musical that came to the fore during the political... more

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Part 1: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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Part 2: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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Part 3: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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2009 Navajo Lutheran Mission, Rock Point, AZ: Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard named new executive director

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HELP Native American & youth projects: Please vote today to help Michigan environment projects

See Links to vote below: Please vote daily through August 30, 2009 for story about... more

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Your vote needed today: Support EarthKeepers/Zaagkii project/Vote daily thru August 30, 2009

Please vote daily through August 30, 2009 for story about Rev. Jon Magnuson's... more

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GaiaTv Spring 2009 "Are We Green Yet"

We are an Earth Friendly tribe

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GaiaTV 2009 Earth Friendly Tribe WorldWide

Eco News and Native American Broadcasting, making a difference in our world we call home!

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Leonard Peltier Assaulted by Fellow Inmates at Canaan Federal Penitentiary

The sister of imprisoned American Indian Activist Leonard Peltier says her brother was... more

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Part 2: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels concert for White Buffalo Calf Woman Society

Munising, MI - Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide... more

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Teens Protecting Pollinators: Zaagkii Project featured in Sunday northern Michigan paper

(Marquette, Michigan) - The Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project in Marquette is protecting... more

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