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100 attend summit on Rosebud suicides
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Mission, South Dakota (AP) 7-08
About 100 people attended a two-day summit in Mission on the high number of suicides on the Rosebud Reservation.
At least six people from the reservation have taken their lives this year and more than 200 have talked about it, made plans to do it or tried.
The local suicide task force released a 20-item plan that mainly focuses on tribal people helping themselves.
It calls for training young people to spot the warning signs among their peers, using elders to teach cultural and traditional values and more outreach to parents to educate them on suicide prevention.
The tribal chairman says a federal $200,000 grant approved by the U.S. Senate recently will be used to put people on the reservation to work with young people and families.
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Can McCain Break the Democrat Hold on the Indian Vote?
"It makes perfect sense. There has been little improvement in Indian country under the Democrats. Conditions in South Dakota reservations certainly haven’t improved under Daschle. What’s an Indian to do politically? "I'm going to work with Sen. Thune's staff,” says Means, “and the state Republican Party, and that will open doors to work with the National Republican Party to completely change Indian policy in America."
For some years, in fact, Means has recognized the impotence of the Democratic Party’s approach to Indian problems. He joined the Libertarian Party in 1987, and ran as the Libertarian candidate for governor of New Mexico in 2002. “What is an American? I believe an American loves to be free. You are free to be responsible. That's the only rule you should understand,” Means says.
That American freedom does not exist on the great Indian reservations. In fact, tyrannical communism reigns on the reservations. Means explains, “This [America] is the only place where communism is successfully practiced in the world. Communism is alive and well on Indian reservations run by the United States government.”
The Republican ticket may offer Indians an alternative, says Thune, and he has more than just Russell Means behind him.
Bruce Whalen, also an Oglala Sioux of Pine Ridge, is committee chairman of the Republican Party in Shannon County. Whalen says, "I know there's a lot of Republicans out there on Pine Ridge. They just don't know it yet.”
Whalen believes the Republican Party more closely mirrors his traditional Lakota values than the Democratic Party. Those values are respect for life, limited government, sovereignty and local control.
McCain should be in a better position to reach out to the tribes with his experience in Arizona."
by the BosqueBoys.com.
Go to link for entire article.
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Hottest Curry World Record set by Cinnamon Club London
The Cinnamon Club in London has created a dish designed to be the world's hottest curry - and it comes with a health warning. Chef Vivek Singh used some of the fieriest ingredients globally for the lamb-based Bollywood Burner.
Diners are required to sign a disclaimer saying they are aware of the nature and risks involved in tasting the curry before eating it.
Toby Steele, 19 and a student from Brighton, was the first to taste the Bollywood Burner at the restaurant on Great Smith Street in Westminster, London.
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World Record to Mimic 151 Different Types of Birds Sound
For the last three years, Gautam Sapkota has been after birds and only birds. He follows birds in national parks, forests, nearby gardens and the central zoo in Kathmandu and spends his time imitating their sounds -- the way the birds communicate with each other in different situations. And it is hard to believe that within a span of three years, he has been able to mimic 151 different types of birds.
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Aquarelle wants you to know... The Longest Walk
Recently, while in Santa Monica, CA I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Los Angeles kindergarten teacher Aquarelle Emery about her experience and motivation to participate in the 'Longest Walk 2008" - checkout what she has to say.
Aquarelle, participants and organizers of the 'Longest Walk' illustrate the immense ground swell of interest, involvement - activism of the American people in the political process and this years Presidential election.
A week or so after I met Aquarelle, she returned to the 'Longest Walk' and should be in Washington D.C. now.
PS - Aquarelle is not only an Obama supporter, but has a tremendous voice. At the end of the vid Aquarelle gives us a little teaser of her incredible voice.
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Muslim couple get married over the telephone
A Indian couple exchanged vows over the telephone because the groom could not return home from Kuwait (where he works) for the wedding.
The whole of the village in India's state of West Bengal watched as the Muslim clerics put the phone on speaker mode to hear the wedding vows.
The Islamic cleric who organised the modern marriage ceremony said: "They said qubul (I do) thrice and the marriage was complete" A Indian couple exchanged vows over the telephone because the groom could not return home from Kuwait (where he works) for the wedding... more -
Indian reality TV show sends kid into Hospital!
A 16 year-old girl, Shinjini Sengupta has suffered a paralytic attack losing her speech & movement of her limbs after judges on a Indian Bengali reality TV show alledgedly used harsh language for not living up to thier expectations.
Shinjini broke down while the judges actually gave their comments, which raises questions regarding children being involved in reality shows. A 16 year-old girl, Shinjini Sengupta has suffered a paralytic attack losing her speech & movement of her limbs after judges on a ... more -
Indian Bollywood Dancing Group set Guinness world Records
More than 200 budding dancers braved the weather in Trafalgar Square to break a world record for Bollywood dancing.
The five-minute routine had people of all ages and backgrounds dancing to classic Indian show song Om Shanti Om. The 212 people who took part earned themselves a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
The event was part of a dance-themed festival organised by BBC Blast, which caters for teenagers and young adults.
Hosted by Strictly Come Dancing's Erin Boag, it encouraged young people to break several world records including largest number of football freestyle tricks in one minute and largest number of street dance moves in 60 seconds.
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Dan Wildcat Call to Consciousness on Climate Change
Another speaker at the Smithsonian Institute NMAI Conference - "A Call to Consciousness on Climate Change".
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Dan Wildcat (Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma)
Daniel R. Wildcat is director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and of the American Indian Studies Program at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. In 1994 Wildcat helped form a partnership with the Hazardous Substance Research Center at Kansas State University to create the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center as a nonprofit Native American initiative to facilitate technology transfer to tribal governments and Native communities, transfer of accurate environmental information to tribes, and research opportunities for tribal college faculty and students throughout the United States.
In 1996 Dr. Wildcat helped plan and organize an American Indian educational program to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day. As a part of the program, he moderated a live, nationally broadcast dialogue in Washington, D.C., between traditional American Indian elders and American Indian scientists and engineers about the way we must live if we are to ensure a healthy planet for our children. Wildcat also helped plan and design a four-part video series entitled All Things Are Connected: The Circle of Life (1997), which dealt with land, air, water, and biological issues related to environmental science and policy challenges facing Native nations. His recent activities have revolved around forming the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, a network of individuals and organizations working on climate change issues.
Wildcat received B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology from the University of Kansas and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He is the author or editor of several books, including Power and Place: Indian Education in America (2001), with Vine Deloria, Jr.; Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria's Legacy on Intellectual America (2006), with Steve Pavlik; and Red Alert: Saving the Earth with Indigenous Knowledge (forthcoming).
Complete Video - http://www.nmai.si.edu/iss/2008/me_webcast.html?siref=Y...
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How you can help the Republic of Lakota
In this interview with our friend Russell Means, Russ tells us what we can do to help the Republic of Lakotah.
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This is a response to an email sent to the webmaster from Pokey from the Rosebud Reservation.
January 25, 2008
Dear Pokey,
Russell Means has asked me to respond to your letter. I will do my best. Some of the responses, particularly the ones with exclamation marks, are direct quotes from Russell. I have regrouped some of your points to address them together.
Best,
Jerry Collette
Interim Attorney General
Provisional Government
Warriors Society
The Republic of Lakotah does not and will not have any type of Warrior Society, paramilitary or anything that foments violence.
How can I help the Republic of Lakotah?
To all people who have volunteered to help:
On behalf of all the volunteers of the provisional government of this newly reborn nation, thank you for your offer to help.
Where the government will ultimately be situated is yet to be determined. The provisional government is currently being operated out of Treaty School/Ranch in Porcupine, on the Pine Ridge reservation. This clearly limits the number of people we can have working here in person.
Not only will the Republic need more people working on its behalf, but in order to rebuild the nation we will need to attract entrepreneurs to establish businesses. A commercial center with more of an infrastructure than we have at Porcupine would seem to facilitate both the government and commercial needs for the near term future. In order to have the number of people who want to come and that will be needed, we are looking at setting up a temporary location, probably somewhere near Rapid City, South Dakota very soon.
Meanwhile, we are building a network of people helping from wherever they are while we get a location established for people to come. With the Internet, people can do much from anywhere they are.
If you would be willing to begin working from where you are, that would be great. Please let us know what talents and skills you would like to contribute. We know people tend to thrive best when they are fulfilling their passions. That said, there are also some administrative tasks, often the kind of work few people feel passionate about, but are needed nonetheless. Many of us are doing many jobs right now, as needed. It is very exciting.
We look forward to having a place set up for you and others to come here in person. Until then, we welcome and bless you and your contributions to our shared future.
Go to link to read entire interview with Russell Means.
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Republic of Lakotah withdraws from US
Lakotah sovereignty ...
1700's: Lakotah governed themselves as they had for thousands of years.
1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty between US and France in which the US promises to respect the liberties, property and religious rights of the inhabitants of the territory, which includes the Lakotah.
1805-1868: Numerous treaties between the US and Sioux Nation, all of which have been violated by the US.
1974: International Treaty Conference attended by over 5000 Lakotah, including many elders. Lakotah elders give two mandates to attendees, international recognition of indigenous rights, and sovereignty. Declaration of Continuing Independence also issued by the conference.
September 2007: UN passes the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
December 2007: Lakotah Freedom Delegation withdraws from all treaties with the US.
Go to link to read more about the Republic of Lakotah.
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Call to Action to Current.com users and contributors -
Please help get this Indian Country news to Current TV.
It has fallen from #3 to #22.
Help prove the Current community isn't like most media
and Americans who, as Russell Means told me, "Don't
want to see Indians. We're the evidence."
Thanks for your help to support the Lakotah people and
other indigenous people struggling for their rights
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Russell Means spoke yesterday at 4th of July celebration in Sturgis
Our friend Russ Means spoke, signed books and did a presentation of Lakota culture and dance at the Ron Paul 4th of July Celebration weekend in Sturgis, South Dakota yesterday, July 3rd.
Russell Means ran for President on the Libertarian ticket a while back and lost the party nomination to Ron Paul by only a few votes.
Russell and his family danced and did a presentation on Lakotah culture on July 3rd at the gathering sponsored by the Libertarians and their Raging Grannies.
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July 3 Schedule
The Day starts at 10am for Speakers and Ends around 5pm
Start your day with a Granny Warrior All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast Bar.
Roger Weidner
Jack McLamb
Frank McEnulty
Ernest Hancock
Russell Means - Lakota Heritage Celebration. Available for book signing! Get your copy today!
Book signing hour. The Authors will be bringing some books to sell, but they will not have enough for everybody, we suggest to pre-buy and bring one!
6:00 Dinner provided by the Lakotah People. Home Cooked Buffalo Stew with Fried Bread! (And don't forget we have our other food vendors as well!)
Movies will also be showing on a big screen
Dusk Fireworks at Mt Rushmore
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where we've seen Russ Means and his family dance
and been inspired by this great leader's love of
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Lakotah Nation: Black Hills sovereignty
The United States is now occupying Lakota country illegally, in violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which granted the Lakota control of the Black Hills in western South Dakota. The treaty was repealed by Congress in 1877, and the Lakota have struggled ever since. "We are the poorest people in America," said Russell Means, "and we have the shortest life span in America, too. The life expectancy for Lakota women is 47; for a man, it's 44. After 155 years of genocide, our way of life is on the brink of extinction. We have finally decided to withdraw from the United States and save our people and our lands. The United States is now occupying Lakota country illegally, in violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which granted the Lakota... more
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Sage Paisner Photographs of Martin Luther King III with Bosque Youth Conservation ...
Sage Paisner Grad Student in Photography at CalArts photographed Martin Luther King III, Dr. King Jr.'s eldest son when he toured Northern New Mexico in June 2007.
Martin Luther King III began the Northern New Mexico segment of his Realizing the Dream Listening and Learning Tour for his Poverty Initiative in America with a presentation by the Bosque Conservation Corps Youth in Southeast Albuquerque.
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Photos by American Photographer Sage Paisner - Oppression/Tradition Portraits
Young American Photographer Sage Paisner portrays the experience of the Oppression Tradition in black and white portraits and directorial self-portraits.
Paisner is a Photography Grad Student at CalArts and a 2006 graduate of the University of New Mexico, B.F.A., summa cum laude in Photography.
Artist statement
"My work stems from tradition and is inspired by historical and contemporary events addressing literal or metaphysical confinement. The oppressed are fearful. Terror stems from the thought of oppression or actual physical captivity. Minorities are oppressed and controlled. My Jewish, French Canadian Indian, history is filled with subjugation. During my early childhood, I lived on a Navajo reservation where my family practiced Judaism and Native religion. My father represented the Navajo Relocatees, helping them to obtain land and homes. For me, these experiences were seminal influences.
My ideas are rooted in the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the European Conquest of America and other countries in which Jews and Native people were persecuted. Fear of capture, persecution and torture forced them to hide or live in small secret places. In these confined places, religious practice, ritual, and the fight to preserve traditions continued. This body of work combines photography and sculpture to express the idea of confinement including contemporary events such as the conflict in Israel, Abu-Graib and Guantanamo Bay. These horrific events of the past and present are connected to my childhood and families history and evoke strong emotions. I am overwhelmed, and frustrated by the state of oppression. I am trapped. I hope there is some way out."
Sage Paisner
www.myspace.com/burningsagepress
sagepaisner@aol.com
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Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community » American Indian Movement
The American Indian Movement (AIM), is an Indian activist organization in the United States. AIM burst onto the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
AIM was co founded in Minneapolis in 1968 by Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton-Banai, and many others in the Native American community, almost 200 total. Russell Means was another early leader.
In the decades since AIM’s founding, the group has led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States. AIM has often supported other indigenous interests outside the United States, as well.
AIM’s original mission included protecting indigenous people from police abuse, using CB radios and police scanners to get to the scenes of alleged crimes involving indigenous people before or as police arrived, for the purpose of documenting or preventing police brutality.
As is true with many national liberation movements (PLO, African National Congress), ideological differences emerged within AIM over the years. In 1993, AIM split into two main factions, each claiming that it was the authentic inheritor of the AIM tradition, and that the other had betrayed the original principles of the movement.
One group, based in Minneapolis, MN and associated with the Bellecourts, is known as the AIM-Grand Governing Council < http://www.aimovement.org> , while the other segment of the movement, led by, among others, Russell Means, was named AIM-International Confederation of Autonomous Chapters < http://www.americanindianmovement.org> - Excerpts: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement&g...
Guest: Steve Blake (Red Lake Ahnishinahbaeotjibway), Director, Twin Cities American Indian Movement
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Free Leonard Peltier - A message from Leonard Peltier
Go to link to read news and most recent letter from American Indian Imprisoned Leader Leonard Peltier who reminds us,
"Our people have told them from the very beginning about the consequences of mistreatment of individuals and mistreatment of Mother Earth.
There are history books that quote our chief headmen and medicine people cautioning
them about there destruction of the earth and nature.
We know the first concentration camps America ever had held Indian prisoners.
The first biological warfare was used on our people with poisonous blankets.
The first atomic bomb dropped was dropped on Indian land in Nevada.
Today there are abandoned uranium quarries in
Navajo country that cause genetic defects on a lot of their people.
When you look into the past, America has used us Indians as their social experiment.
They tried to destroy us with boarding schools,
relocation, and even the first slavery practice was with American people."
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Voice of the Hawk Elder Wins Best Books Award
Dedication to book by Seneca Elder Edna Gordon
"This book is dedicated to my People, the Seneca Nation, to our kindred Peoples of the Haudenoshaunee, or Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, to all the Indian Nations of Great Turtle Island, and to all other Indigenous Peoples around this Mother Earth. I send it out like an arrow of love from my heart to YOUR hearts!
If other folks want to read it too, why, that’s fine by me. Might be you even learn something! This book is FULL of secrets for those who understand'm! But always remember, the BIGGEST secret is Creation itself!
YES, THIS IS MY VOICE. These are my words. My good friend Harvey has helped me sort and arrange them, like he’s done for lots of good people over the years, even back when he worked at National Geographic. He fixes my spelling and spruces up my grammar here and there, though I tell him, not too much, Harvey! I want folks to know who I am and how I really talk and what I’m really like. Don’t make me some saintly old lady come down from Heaven on a moonbeam spoutin’ high-flown words.
Me, I’m just me, Grandma Edna Gordon, Hawk Clan Elder of the Seneca Nation, Six Nations Iroquois. I just turned 85, and am tryin’ my darndest to be a good person. Sometimes I succeed, but don’t stay around me when I get mad! I’m a raging hawk
I‘m honored Harvey’s chosen me to work with. Or am I the one did the choosing? <smile>. Harvey’s a helper, and that’s a holy thing to be. People’mselves aren’t holy. But what they do can be holy. Living a holy life, that’s what life’s for. Helping others, fighting injustice, standing up for the People—those are holy things to do.
But always be sure to remember, it ain’t you yourself who’s holy. People are just people. If God’d wanted’m to be holy, he’d have given’m wings and set’m up on a cloud somewhere playin’ a big gold harp.
Sounds pretty boring to me. Me, I’d rather just be a human being. I’m thankful that’s all I am or need to be. Being human, that’s a tough enough job for me. Dedication to book by Seneca Elder Edna Gordon ... more -
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