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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Honoring American Indian Activist Russell Means
Pearl Means, Christian Camargo and Ed Vassello
cordially invite you to an honoring of American Indian Activist
Russell Means
An evening of world music and a special screening
Monday, January 27, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
Classic Stage Company
136 East 13th Street
New York, New York
www.russellmeanslegacy.com
Campaign to Free Lakota Children
CRUZ, CALIFORNIA — The Lakota People’s Law Project is launching the “Campaign to Free Lakota Children,” with a national petition (click to sign it here), call President Obama to authorize the grants needed to start tribal foster care programs, and put us within sight of bringing our children home.
Message from Chase Iron Eyes:
There is an epidemic of hundreds of state kidnappings of Native children by South Dakota’s Department of Social Services. Lakota kids are ten times more likely as non-Native kids to be forcibly removed from their homes and placed in the foster care system. The State receives up to $79,000 per Lakota foster child annually from the federal government.
The Lakota People’s Law Project has recently released a new 12-minute video ‘Hearts on the Ground”, documenting the heart breaking reality of the South Dakota DSS illegally denying Lakota grandmothers custody of their own grandchildren. Please watch and share this video.
As part of our new Campaign to Free the Lakota Children, we would also appreciate the the help of those supporters who use Twitter to recommend the ‘Hearts on the Ground” video to the popular website Upwothy, with your suggestion to @Upworthy.
We have the solution: Foster care programs run by Lakota tribes, not the culturally biased and money-motivated DSS of South Dakota.
Please sign the petition–and help spread the word. Together we can change history.
Wopila (Many Thanks),
Chase Iron Eyes
South Dakota Legal Counsel
Coatlicue Theatre Company presents HTOB HABILET
HTOB HABILETIK
An evening of archival video and talk,
looking back at twenty years of Maya Zapatista struggle
and on its significance from Indigenous and
international perspectives.
Friday, January 31, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
$10 suggested donation
American Indian Community House
124 West 29th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
4th Floor
New York, New York
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Una noche con charla y video archival, mirando tras veinte años de la lucha Maya
Zapatista y en su significado del punto de vista indigena e internacional
Viernes, Enero 31, 2014
700 pm $10 donativo sugerido
American Indian Community House
134 Oeste de calle 29
(entre aves 6ta and 7ma) 4to piso
Manhattan
EPA Ruling on Wind River Reservation
From The Stream at Al Jazeera:
EPA ruling sets up battle over Indian country boundaries in Wyoming
Wind River Reservation photo by Karl Gehring/Denver Post/Getty Images
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead:
“My deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state’s boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law. This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?”
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History did not begin 100 years ago.
Native peoples of Turtle Island have been asking,
“Where will it stop?” for over five centuries.
