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Can McCain Break the Democrat Hold on to 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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Russell Means to talk on Native American rights on Al Jazeera English
Programmes RIZ KHAN
Native American rights
The fight for native American rights has taken many turns over the centuries.
On Thursday’s Riz Khan we look at the battle from two very different angles.
First, a group of activists has set out on a 5,800km trek from San Francisco to Washington DC, promoting conservation, collecting rubbish, and raising awareness about their plight along the way.
The American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks discusses the "Longest Walk" movement and what they hope to achieve.
Later in the programme we examine a Lakota tribal effort to withdraw their ancestral lands from the United States.
The leader of the "Republic of Lakotah", the controversial actor and activist Russell Means, joins us to discuss his plans for establishing an independent, matriarchal and independent nation within the United States.
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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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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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Making Indian votes count | argusleader.com | Argus Leader
Argus Leader interviews with Republik of Lakota leader Russell Means and other South Dakotans on U.S. Presidential politics.
Russell Means says, “I believe in reality and this country, for some time, has not elected a president ever, but they are allowed to think they have.”
Read whole article at link above.
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Photo - "Russell Means" in September 2007 during Mixed Blood Radio interview with Charleen Touchette. Photograph by Liesette Paisner, Mixed Blood Radio Producer. Argus Leader interviews with Republik of Lakota leader Russell Means and other South Dakotans on U.S. Presidential politics. ... more -
Treaties of Fort Laramie in 1851 and 1868 Promised Black Hills to Lakotah
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....
More text and pictures on link.
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I am an American Indian, not a Native American!
American Indian leader Lakotah Russell Means from Pine Ridge, South Dakota explains why he and many of us abhor the term "Native American."
Check out Russell Means' informative website at www.russellmeans.com
From Charleen Touchette, Oppressionist Artist recruited by Russell Means in 2006, for TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
HAVE LAND? THANK AN INDIAN
You can get a tee-shirt with the wise words above at www.nativeharvest.com American Indian leader Lakotah Russell Means from Pine Ridge, South Dakota explains why he and many of us abhor the term "Native ... more -
Russell Means and the Republic of Lakotah
Lakotah Indian Leader Russell Means explains abrogation of Treaty with U.S. Indians suffer disproportionately from poverty, illness and environmental degradation and global warming.
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog where every day is Earth Day. Lakotah Indian Leader Russell Means explains abrogation of Treaty with U.S. Indians suffer disproportionately from poverty, illness an... more -
YouTube - Wounded Heart: Pine Ridge and the Sioux
Oglala Lakota Indian Leader Russell Means says Culture is Values. The Lakotah have one of the very lowest life expectancy rates in the world. Only 8 other countries have the same or shorter. Oglala Lakota Indian Leader Russell Means says Culture is Values. The Lakotah have one of the very lowest life expectancy rates in the... more
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Nurturing Creativity
American Artist and mother of four Charleen Touchette hosts Michelle Allen Miller's Blog,
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TouchArt News on Progressive, Indigenous and Mixed Blood Art and Politics
Up-to-date news, stunning photos of TouchArt's travels and work in Indian Country and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Photos of Martin Luther King III with NM Coordinators Charleen Touchette and Liesette Paisner on Realizing the Dream Poverity Initiative in America Tour of Northern New Mexico with Picuris, Okay Owinghe, and Santa Clara Pueblos, Spanish Land Grant Heirs in Chimayo, Truchas and Cordova and Bosque Conversvation Youth Corps and South Broadway Cultural Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico featured in American Life Television videos premiered in November 2007. Up-to-date news, stunning photos of TouchArt's travels and work in Indian Country and Santa Fe, New Mexico. ... more
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