"Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil (as opposed to ‘gathering and foraging’ ~RR), and the love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes of the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. They compel her to produce out of season, and when sterile she is made to take medicine in order to produce again. All this is sacrilege."
The New York Time has Russell’s obituary/biography:
Russell Charles Means was born on the Pine Ridge reservation on Nov. 10, 1939, the oldest of four sons of Harold and Theodora Feather Means. The Anglo-Saxon surname was that of a great-grandfather. When he was 3, the family moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where his father, a welder and auto mechanic, worked in wartime shipyards… [In Full}
Although it’s ‘complete’, the Times leaves out an important part of Native American thought regarding perhaps it’s most contentious issue.
Russell would say
Mitaku Ogasin (We are ALL related)
As a traditionalist Russell Means never fell for the Allotment Act “Blood Quantum” scam… an early blatant attempt to dilute Native land holdings and a white man’s idea that now feeds the greed of many “Casino Indians” in America.
Rest in Peace Russell Means, and say hi to Travus for me.
…on how the Natives who remained sovereign got screwed and the social fallout from maintaining that sovereignty surrounded by a nation hostile to them.
Women of the Oglala Lakota nation along with activists from Deep Green Resistance, AIM Grassroots, Un-Occupy Albuquerque, Occupy Lincoln, and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center took part in a march from Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge into White Clay to protest against the predatory liquor industry present there.
White Clay has a population of 14, yet 4 liquor stores in the town sell 12,500 cans of beer each day. The stores have been documented repeatedly selling to bootleggers, intoxicated people, minors, and trading beer for sexual favors.
“For over 100 years the women of the Oglala Lakota nation have been dealing with an attack on the mind body and spirit of their relatives”, says Olowan Martinez who is a main organizer of the event and resident of Pine Ridge. “The Oglala have been silenced through chemical warfare waged by the corporations who are out to exploit and make a profit off of the suffering and misery of our people. The time has come to end this suffering by any means necessary.”
Debra White Plume, a Lakota activist and resident of Pine Ridge who spoke at the event proclaimed, “A sober Indian is a dangerous Indian. We have to send a message to Nebraska and its citizens that we are not going to tolerate business as usual. This is the Women’s Day of Peace but that peace will soon be over”.
After the march and speeches members of Deep Green Resistance locked down and blockaded the road into White Clay.
Less than a half hour after the lockdown began a police officer rolled down their window and indiscriminately pepper sprayed into a crowd. Up to 12 people were pepper sprayed…
I will be posting this video onces an hour [you’ve been warned]
3 weeks ago Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency and no one has helped. This is a place in Ontario, we need to help.
Absolutely heartbreaking
This is extremely fucked up. We need to start looking into alternative energy resources for our reservations.
re-reblog for those of you who have begun following me since November. This is still an on going issue/reality though the media has now almost all together stopped paying it mind.
please watch this video, educate yourself on this issue and help these folks out.
It’s EVERYONE (except the 1% of course). As MLK Jr. implied before they had him killed “You ALL Niggas now”
The Topography of Poverty in the United States: A Spatial Analysis Using County-Level Data From the Community Health Status Indicators Project
Click the map below for the article, more maps and data:
A Synopsis Of This Morning’s News… H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
[After the commentary, in relation to the finishing news story, a Native American invocation that speaks to the hands of greed, followed by John Trudell (John’s site is here). Courtesy of the respective artists.]
«o»Consider that the West has lost the war on Afghanistan… President Obama is insisting there should be no rush to the exit even as things entirely fall apart in Afghanistan the soldier who massacred sixteen Afghan civilians, with a majority being children has been transported to Kuwait, not Guantanamo, but that’s only backgrounder.
There was an assassination by carbomb/firebombing attempt targeting Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on the runway of the airport as he was arriving for the meet and greet with the Marines who were, as reported yesterday, required to leave their weapons outside the meeting hall.
Panetta’s VERY TENSE meeting with president Hamid Karzai ended with the Afghan leader demanding that the night raids cease immediately (he’s demanded that before and has been ignored) and further requiring that all NATO/US forces should be pulled from the hinterlands of the country and garrisoned in larger towns and cities, even as the Taliban announce that they have suspended any and all peace talks… leaving those garrisoned troops looking more like sitting ducks. More at Foreign Policy Magazine AfPak Channel.
«o»The senate Republicans have surrendered - The Republican’s stall forcing a filibuster over the confirmation hearings of more than 160 federal judges has been called off and they have claimed they would sign onto the Transportation bill by the end of the month IF the riders and amendments get cleared up… a big IF.
«o»The ceasefire brokered by Egypt between the Palestinians of Gaza and Israel has fallen apart. Rocket fire from Gaza continues and an Israeli air strike took out a whole block in the Gaza Strip where the Israelis claim a bomb factory was located.
«o»Local News… The San Lorenzo river is threatening the Landed Gentry-owned beach boardwalk amusement park at the river mouth due to high water levels and continuing light rains of the sort that saturated the ground in the Santa Cruz mountains during the winter of 1882-83… before the heavy rains came, flooding much of downtown. One can only hope.
More below the fold.
In OTHER News:
The Santa Cruz Sentinel (affectionately known as the ‘senile’) is featuring an article on the front page about how erosion and rising ‘uncontrolled’ water at the mouth of the San Lorenzo river is ‘scaring’ the people who ‘own’ the boardwalk. At the side of that river mouth is a lot used as a parking lot for the boardwalk that was ‘given’ to them by the city in, I believe, the 1930s.
What the SENILE is NOT mentioning is the fact that the area they’re ‘scared’ about is ALL below the traditional high water mark, which mean’s that parking lot IS ON INDIAN LAND according to federal law, if the natives want it.
At the time of the allotment act, due to the fact that the California coastal tribes were typically small bands, they were cut out of the ‘deals’ made by the federal government for tribal ‘benefits’, including some small piece of land to call their own. Somewhere along the line that tribal size issue was redacted from Indian Affairs requirements, and now days the very few Ohlones left (I do not believe the Nisquits and the other bands survived) MAY want that riverfront land.
Snigger.
SANTA CRUZ - The rapidly flowing San Lorenzo River, instead of heading straight to sea, has taken a sharp right turn onto the beach and delivered the Boardwalk a scare.
River water, running parallel to the amusement park, has crept precariously close to the concrete retaining wall that separates the beach and Boardwalk.
Early Wednesday, a wooden staircase to the beach, was ripped apart by the meandering river water and washed into the ocean, [In Full @ ‘The Senile’ (owned by Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp… Don’t expect a lot)]
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This is Razer Raygun saying ‘Happy Motoring America…’. Remember:
Capitalism has a gun at your head every moment you’re alive:
In the end, the sad fate of America’s Indians represents not a crime but a tragedy, involving an irreconcilable collision of cultures and values. Despite the efforts of well-meaning people in both camps…”
The violent collision between whites and America’s native population was probably unavoidable. Between 1600 and 1850, a dramatic surge in population led to massive waves of emigration from Europe, and many of the millions who arrived in the New World gradually pushed westward into America’s seemingly unlimited space. No doubt, the 19th-century idea of America’s”manifest destiny” was in part a rationalization for acquisitiveness, but the resulting dispossession of the Indians was as unstoppable as other great population movements of the past. The U.S. government could not have prevented the westward movement even if it had wanted to.
In the end, the sad fate of America’s Indians represents not a crime but a tragedy, involving an irreconcilable collision of cultures and values. Despite the efforts of well-meaning people in both camps, there existed no good solution to this clash. The Indians were not prepared to give up the nomadic life of the hunter for the sedentary life of the farmer. The new Americans, convinced of their cultural and racial superiority, were unwilling to grant the original inhabitants of the continent the vast preserve of land required by the Indians’ way of life. The consequence was a conflict in which there were few heroes, but which was far from a simple tale of hapless victims and merciless aggressors. To fling the charge of genocide at an entire society serves neither the interests of the Indians nor those of history.
Note Anonymiss Express: A very detached article with a typical “white male” perspective: Rationalisation and arrogation. Speaking of which, no mention about the treaties?
The audio commentary onsite as titled, and in this edition of Cabale News Service Morning News Synopsis, this just in from the CDC in regard to public health service issues points to other regional issues… Namely the Prison Industrial Complex
The Topography Of Genocide? Poverty In The United States - Spatial Analysis Reveals A Continental Poverty Divide
(Official title: The Topography of Poverty in the United States: A Spatial Analysis Using County-Level Data From the Community Health Status Indicators Project)
[Illustrative Maps]
Succinctly, and to the point… those maps illustrate that poverty is where the prisons are.
A Message To #Occupiers Everywhere: "Ignore the loyalists, ignore the cynics, keep fighting ...... Shut them down. Shut the entire god damn system down. No one can stop this. I love you all." ~~Redditor Aniadrift
March 15 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: ‘Rush For The Exit’ Or Not - Mark It Down In Your Diary As The Week We ‘Lost Afghanistan’
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