( – promoted by navajo) A Canadian company has the legal right to condemn land for a crude-oil pipeline through the eastern part of the state (South Dakota in this case) – Custer’s method of attack was a four front attack at dawn on sleeping villages. It seems an extreme comparison to make, even irresponsible. … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Take a real good look at her face – not at her fake smile, but look into her eyes. What do you see? Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean” “It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Just what was one method of forced removal McCain used to bring about this? ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of “pro-Peabody Western Coal” Indians and obtaining a false “Hopi-Navajo” Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) A pair of updates from KOS…. Gustav rolled into Terrebonne Parish and so far the damage estimates have yet to really come in from the bayou communities. There apparently was a lot of wind damage. Before the Houma newspaper went off-line, it reported flooding in the area, especially Point-aux-Chenes. No … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) This is a cross-post of something I just did over on Daily Kos. One of the people there suggested I post it here…. Hurricane Gustav is headed for Louisiana, and, while a lot of attention is going to be paid to New Orleans, there are other communities that will be … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Defenders of Wildlife Asks Judge to Shut Down Palin’s Wolf Bounty Program “The Governor is overstepping her legal authority by offering cash payments for each wolf killed by aerial gunners,” stated Tom Banks, Defenders of Wildlife’s Alaska Associate. “That’s a bounty by anyone’s standards regardless of what they call it.” … Continued
( – promoted by CodeTalker) I would have hoped that the Longest Walk that began in February and ended six months later, would have brought the issues of the truth about the suicides on reservations, the lack of justice on reservations, climate change, alcohol and drug addiction in the American Indian population, health concerns of … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I guess I always thought that at least the Medicine Bluffs would be safe from development. In fact, I just told someone today that it probably would be, since it is on an Army Base. Source A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Army from starting a construction project at … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Source Amnesty International conducted detailed research in three locations with different policing and judicial arrangements…: the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North and South Dakota, the State of Oklahoma and the State of Alaska. – snip – It (sexual violence) has been compounded by the federal government’s steady erosion of … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) The closest I’ve come to trying to understand genocide, is to imagine the worst, most disgusting, evil, dehumanizing, anti-evolutionary, shameless, insatiable, vile, and incomprehensible thing imaginable – and try multiplying that by infinity. Genocide (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide New York, 9 December 1948) … Continued