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📜 Honor the Treaties
The Forest Service says most Tribal governments consulted oppose rescinding the Roadless Rule, warning of risks to sovereignty, sacred sites, water, and ancestral homelands.
Read more:
https://newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/honor-treaties-protect-tribal-ancestral-lands-trump-epa-usda--roadless-rule
📜 Honor the Treaties
The Forest Service says most Tribal governments consulted oppose rescinding the Roadless Rule, warning of risks to sovereignty, sacred sites, water, and ancestral homelands.
Read more:
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/honor-tre...
#HonorTheTreaties #TribalSovereignty
First day of the #Minnesota Legislative Session opened in a good way along with our allies at the Rise and Repair alliance. We’re grateful for their leadership on legislative proposals to protect the land, water, and Indigenous rights.
The Three Waters team is actively pursuing legislator support for two bills that would help protect MN from the risks of oil #pipelines. Join our meeting next Thursday to learn more about our legislative initiatives.
The afternoon honored the late Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark; as well as Senator John Hoffman who returned to session, following the assassination attacks last June. May this legislative season celebrate their service, reckon with their loss, and advance protections for all Minnesotans.
#Minneapolis: #Dakota and #Lakota #Oyate Set Up Lodges Outside #WhippleBuilding
By #NiskíthePrayerCamp, #CensoredNews, Feb. 10, 2026
"Niskíthe Prayer Camp is honored to have been asked to share our tipis for this endeavor and we plan to work to supply our Dakota relatives in Minneapolis with supplies that they will need to continue this occupation and fulfill their demands for the return of #FortSnelling.
"Despite being visited yesterday by both state park rangers and Minneapolis police, our Dakota relatives survived their first night in the tipi encampment at Fort Snelling, a former internment (read 'concentration') camp for Indigenous people upon which the federal #ICE detention center in the Whipple Building is now situated. The Dakota want it back, and we plan to help them!
The Red Lake Nation said, 'The Dakota and Lakota Oyate have set up lodges outside the Whipple Building.' "
Source [keep an eye out for updates]:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02/minneapolis-dakota-and-lakota-oyate-set.html
#CensoredNews #Occupy #Resistance #LandBack #HonorTheTreaties #IndigenousNews #ResistICE #IndigenousResistance
@GottaLaff It’s clear he’s only pulling this Columbia Basin policy out of perversion. There is little opposition to removing the dams on the Snake, even in Idaho, and the region is poised to support robust salmon protection. Lynda Mapes is among a handful of reporters at the Seattle Times not dominated by real estate industry fantasies.
#ColumbiaRiver #salmon #HonorTheTreaties #ClimateCrisis
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/trump-cancels-landmark-columbia-river-agreement-with-tribes-wa-or/
Tribe successfully sued the city of Toppenish -- whose red tape and evil colonizer ways of white supremacy -- tried to shut down an inclusive, humanitarian effort to keep people warm at a warming shelter.
""The Yakama Nation was likely to succeed on the "merits of its 1855 Treaty claim," said the The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington;
and the State of Washington issued the restraining order against Toppenish yesterday.
This is a public reminder to all my indigenous kin that tribal treaty rights like the fact that a building in Toppenish that the clinic owns and which was reserved in the Treaty of 1855 was specifically designated for the use and benefit of the Yakama Nation, according to court documents.
Fair warning if you are someone who link dives
🏊🏽♀️ 🏊🏽♂️
journalist in this article made a mistake and is trying to link the readers to their
`C:/Users/` drive instead of to the link where the court docs docs were found.
:win3_terminal:
I am sure if you care enough to research them on your own they can be found from where he downloaded them.
#Indigenous #MutualAid #Washington #Yakama #Treaty #HonorTheTreaties
The history of Canada's refusal to honor nation-to-nation treaties signed with Indigenous peoples is long, shameful, and heartbreaking; enough so that from our current vantage point, it's hard for anyone to imagine anything resembling "justice" prevailing - after all, you can't rewind time, and we're talking about a couple hundred years worth of disgraceful colonial predation here. Despite this however, a recent Supreme Court ruling against Canada and the province of Ontario appears poised to force the colonizer state to honor at least one important treaty; albeit 174 years after it was signed.
Canada owes First Nations billions after making ‘mockery’ of treaty deal, top court rules
"The court decision to highlight “egregious” ways in which governments have treated their agreements with nations could have far-reaching consequences, both for the affected communities and the country.
The case centered on a treaty signed in 1850 between the British Crown and a group of Anishinaabe nations on the shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. Known as the Robinson Treaties, the agreements, covering 35,700 sq miles (92,400 sq km) of land, included a rare “augmentation clause” that promised to increase annual payments “from time to time” as the land generated more wealth – “if and when” that payment could be made without the Crown incurring a loss.
Over the next 174 years, the lands and waters covered by the deal generated immense profits for companies – and substantial revenues for the province of Ontario. But in 1874, the annuities were capped in at $4 a person and never increased.
“Today, in what can only be described as a mockery of the Crown’s treaty promise to the Anishinaabe of the upper Great Lakes, the annuities are distributed to individual treaty beneficiaries by giving them $4 each,” the court wrote, singling out the “shocking” figure paid to beneficiaries. “The Crown has severely undermined both the spirit and substance of the Robinson Treaties.”
To be clear, and as several First Nations representatives in the article point out, the ruling is still unlikely to result in true justice. After all, the court declined to attach a settlement figure and the process of deciding how much money the country and the provinces owes will be up to the Crown, aka representatives of the government itself, as opposed to the Indigenous communities affected. Given that these same governments tried to argue that the costs of colonizing the affected region should count against the settlement (and indeed, that it meant there should be no payments made at all as such) it's hard to imagine the final numbers coming anywhere near the $126b Superior Anishinaabe First Nations has (credibly) argued they're owed.
With that having been noted however, the Robinson Treaties are not even remotely the only nation-to-nation agreements the Canadian government and its provinces have violated or ignored in Canada's long history of treaty-based colonial looting and violence. By recognizing the standing of the Superior Anishinaabe First Nations, and the clear and intentional violation of the treaty by Canada itself, it's likely that this ruling will empower other legal challenges designed to force Canadian authorities to honor its numerous other treaties in ways the nation has thus far refused to even acknowledge its legal obligation to do so. It's not justice, but the Supreme Court's ruling on the so-called Robinson Treaties may some day be remembered as the moment the dam finally broke, ushering in something at least resembling atonement and restitution for Canada's long, shameful, and tragic history of colonial exploitation and wanton criminality towards the Indigenous nations it has treated, and continues to treat, with contempt and violence.
#MortonCountySheriff's Letter to President-Elect #Trump Accused #WaterProtectors of Bogus Crimes
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, March 24, 2024
BISMARCK, North Dakota -- "The Morton County Sheriff's Department sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump which accused #StandingRock water protectors of crimes that there was no evidence of -- crimes water protectors were never charged with. The letter urges Trump to stop the protest of the #DakotaAccessPipeline."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/morton-county-sheriffs-letter-to.html
#WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #ACAB #NativeAmericanActivists #StandWithStandingRock
#HonorTheTreaties #Lakota #SupportIndependentJournalism #IndigenousNews
The #KirchmeierFile at #StandingRock --'The Perfect Storm' was the Perfect #HumanRights Disaster
by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
March 23, 2024
"In the typical 'good ole boy' style, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier claims he was honoring #WaterProtectors rights to free speech, and just trying to keep the peace, in his deposition in the current case, North Dakota v. United States of America.
"Kirchmeier, however, also reveals that only a couple of his sheriff's deputies were trained in the use of less-than lethal weapons. He also reveals that among the first people that he called on for backup was Paul Laney, president of the North Dakota's National Sheriffs Association.
"Kirchmeier also says they don't deal in Treaties at the Sheriffs Department.
"It comes as no surprise that #EnergyTransfer offered from the beginning to pay off the cops."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-kirchmeier-file-at-standing-rock.html
#ACAB #NativeAmericanActivists #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #HonorTheTreaties #WaterIsLife #Lakota #WaterProtectors #SupportIndependentJournalism #IndigenousNews
@IndigenousCreatives Some more hashtags I have seen or used: #RedDressDay, #RockYourMocs, #NAHM (aka #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth), #OrangeShirtDay, #NationalAboriginalDay, #IndigenousPeoplesDay, #NativesVote, #ProtectICWA, #DefendTheSacred, #HonorTheTreaties, #SovereigntyBack, #FoodSovereignty, #NAGPRA, #Repatriation, #IdleNoMore, #LanguageBack, #LanguageRevitalization, #Powwow, #Powwows, #StopDisenrollment
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack
'The Anarchist Movement'(tm) 😂
"Everywhere and Nowhere..." 😉 😆
#Navajo Nation’s long quest for water — and for the federal government to keep its promises — ends up at Supreme Court
The tribe says an 1868 treaty means the federal government has a duty to ensure its people have sufficient water on a reservation where thousands do not have running water.
By Lawrence Hurley, March 19, 2023
"For the tribe, the case is about more than what rivers it can draw water from — the Navajo say it's about ending nearly two centuries of injustice perpetuated by the federal government, which has failed to keep promises and left them to suffer on the arid lands where their ancestors settled."
#HonorTheTreaties #LandBack #NativeAmericans #IndigenousNews #WaterIsLife #Diné
#SCOTUS must respect #Congress' constitutional authority to make treaties and recognize #NativeAmerican #TribalSovereignty.
There is no bogus #originalist construct that allows us to not #HonorTheTreaties
Imagining a US where all the treaties are upheld:
"Going back to the original treaty texts would make broad swaths of the nation Native territory. That means Indigenous people would have a stronger voice on environmental enforcement, more of a say on fossil fuel infrastructure construction, be able to better control the fate of Native children removed from their parents’ home, and less likely to be tried in local courts where district attorneys are elected using racist, tough-on-crime politics. Beyond control over the land itself, the treaties lay the groundwork for obligations requiring the federal government to provide adequate resources to support health care, safety, and education — which have never been fulfilled.
Fletcher said the decision will apply to the other four tribes forcibly removed to Oklahoma too. If the state or federal government attempts to fight that, they will lose, he added. As for the rest of the U.S., the decision will serve as a legal precedent in some reservation boundary cases, but it also opens up a space to imagine a different kind of United States, where all treaties are upheld."
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/17/mcgirt-v-oklahoma-indian-native-treaties
So what happened with this thread?
Three part interview series from indianz.com showing the allies and action that supports the sovereign rights of indigenous peoples and the LEGAL TREATIES that the US Gov't (which claims to be a law-oriented entity) is _required_ to honor.
Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzoPKPwYkY
Part Two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4ZDrL4ME4
Part Three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIGPcnBnrI
Trump's goons and paid by dirty colonist money antagonizers (
They didn't mention anywhere that Trump or his supporters are allowed to trespass... ). Hey military bros and sistahs: Taxpayers aren't paying you guys to protect a murderer!
Search tags on ecosteder: #MMIW #HonorTheTreaties #Dakotas
Watch Russell Means explain that "where white men fear to tread" is actually quite large:
(Skip to ~7 mins in for some encouraging words regarding the wars of oppression)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnk0FAYG9A
The tragedy is that because the white man could never face his past, THAT is why he has no future.
Specifics matter. The toppling of the statue of Columbus:
"On Wednesday afternoon, a 10-foot tall bronze Christopher Columbus statue was taken down on the east side of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM).
It was the second Columbus statue taken down in as many days. On Tuesday night, a Columbus statue was torn down and thrown in a lake in Richmond, Virginia.
Columbus is no hero to American Indians and considered part of a false narrative of written American history."
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/christopher-columbus-statue-toppled-outside-the-minnesota-state-capitol
Great news in this recent NARF victory for the water protectors.
✨ 🙌 🦆 :yaysun:
"This is a tremendous victory for the Klamath Tribes, which NARF represented as amicus curiae in the case, as well as for the other Klamath Basin tribes, the United States, and environmental groups.
In this long-running case, Klamath Project irrigators sought nearly $30 million in compensation from the United States government for the Bureau of Reclamation’s curtailment of Project water deliveries during a severe drought in 2001. The water restrictions were made to meet Endangered Species Act requirements and fulfill tribal trust responsibilities. In late 2017, the US Court of Claims confirmed that the Klamath Tribes and downriver Klamath Basin tribes have senior water rights over other water interests in the Klamath Basin. Thus, the Project irrigators, as junior water rights users under the western water law system of “first in time, first in right,” were not entitled to receive any Project water in 2001."
"NARF Staff Attorney Sue Noe was not surprised by the court’s ruling, “The courts continue to rule in favor of the Klamath Tribes’ water rights because it is the only interpretation that makes sense. The Tribes have lived in the Klamath Basin for millennia. In an 1864 treaty they relinquished millions of acres of their homeland to the United States in exchange for guarantees, including protections for the tribal right to harvest fish in their streams and lakes. There is no expiration date on those treaty promises, and they cement the Tribes’ top water rights in the region.”"
#NARF #HonorTheTreaties #Water #Victory #Klamath
Sources:
She wrote also of Indians in #Canada: "... different in details and identical in intent and disastrous effect to that of Indians in the United States"
Nevertheless, themes of survival persist:
"2. Indians endure -- both in the sense of living through something so complete in its destructiveness that the mere presence of survivors is a testament to the human will to survive and in the sense of duration or longevity. Tribal systems have been operating in the "new world" for several hundred thousand years. It is unlikely that a few hundred years of colonization will see their undoing." (Introduction)
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We can tell by who the whiteman elected Prezzy prez, that their sense of dread must be growing day by day.
"The acts of aggression committed against every aspect of American Indian life and society over the centuries-- what the Aztecs foresaw as Nine Hells or Nine Descents --have left indelible, searing scars on the minds and spirits of the native peoples on this continent. But voices of the spirits that inform Native America are being heard in every region.
The oral tradition, from which the contemporary poetry and fiction take their significance and authenticity, has, since contact with white people, been a major force in Indian resistance." (p. 53)
"Contemporary Indian communities value individual members who are deeply connected to the traditional ways of their people, even after centuries of concerted and brutal effort on the part of the American government, the churches, and the corporate system to break the connections between individuals and their tribal world. In short, Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget." (p. 210)
Recall campaigns work. These kinds of things work in a #Democracy.
"The internet has simultaneously made recall campaigns cheaper and made it easier for them to raise money. Social media helps voters find each other; smartphones and spreadsheets make coordinating their efforts far simpler. And citizens can even download a recall petition, print it out and sign it (or get their family and friends to sign it) on the spot.
Another reason recalls may be on the rise is that power *brokers are increasingly willing to put their muscle behind them."
Ideas:
(1) Start or advance a #Recall campaign against groupings of corrupt REPUBLICANS (for an opportunity to save the world).
(2) Assess ecosystem damage wrought by aforementioned bad guys, immediately shut down their abuses of privatization (or obvious intent to abuse via privatization).
(3) Assign ecological damage scores to those in political power; notice increased for each day of continued damage (or attempted damage)?; these cannot be removed.
(4) Expel and remove anyone unwilling to enforce accountability on the white collar criminals. Let the educated public among the system collectively vanquish those who refuse to be precisely accountable.
(5) Immediately embark upon eco-remediation strategies for the areas with the worse damage.
Indigenous #sovereign nations (and as the wise remind us: sovereignty is only to be acknowledged; it's obviously never granted) have all the answers, and really; they owe nothing to the white man. No real estate anything the white man dreamed up in vainglory is worth that kind of harm.
It’s a dire time in California for wild chinook salmon (Nur) – climate change, giant dam projects and draining rivers for "Big Ag irrigation" which threatens water and livelihoods all up and down coasts.
Independent journalists, writers, people being peaceful in their expressions have organized a few days of gatherings to celebrate the simple gifts that only healthy fish extend.
Peaceful people don't carry guns. Peaceful people #HonorTheTreaties
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Don't even try to build an oil pipeline in the middle of a flood plain.
The best thing about all this flooding is that it's keeping away the monsters' infringing machinery on Mother Earth's territory. While people bicker there are, obviously, greater forces at work.
Article on "The Great Flood of 2019" by the NY Times.
insert obvious correlations...
The gist of it is that:
Obama (a good guy) rejected the pipeline permit requests due to lack of environmental impact studies. Smart.
Election happens and then (as we all know)
The EVIL MONSTER DONALD TRUMP "invited TC Energy to resubmit its application. Once resubmitted, the U.S. State Department did not bother to seek any new information or public comment, but instead quickly granted TC Energy a permit. Now, after the courts have told the United States it must follow the law, President Trump has attempted to circumvent the courts by issuing a new permit. But, the President must comply with the Treaties, and TC Energy must comply with Rosebud law."
Commentary on strength of Tribal courts superior system of clan motherhood, inherent knowledge of Earth's vulnerable systems.
"The United States must answer to the Tribes for violations of the treaties and be instructed to honor them. NARF will not allow the US government to ignore or forget the agreements made with tribal nations. Neither the president nor wealthy foreign corporations are above the laws of our country."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/us/midwest-flooding.html