Here Is What We Know About the Death of Choctaw Medicine Man Rexdale W. Henry
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Call for Clemency for Leonard Peltier
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
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.
In Memory of Carter Camp
From Censored News:
In Memory of Carter Camp
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Photo by Richard Erdoes
from the book
Ojibwa Warrior, Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
Quietly, Indians Reshape Cities and Reservations
From The New York Times:
Russell Means Walks On
Russell Means: A Look At His Journey
“Being is a spiritual proposition.” Russell Means lashes out at European “death culture” and the left.
“Don’t ever let that fire go out.” A tribute from Last Real Indians.
photo by Marcy Nightswander for AP
