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Honoring the #Movements and People who Inspire us. #Warriors, #Writers and #Dreamers -- A Thread Runs Through Them. #CensoredNews 20th Anniversary.

'Know who you are, and never let anyone take your power from you.'

By #BrendaNorrell, Censored News, August 30, 2026

"We're coming up on our 20th anniversary at Censored News, and we are honoring the warriors, leaders, writers and dreamers who make Censored News possible.

When the Mohawks came for the border summit in 2006 and 2007, it was, as they say in the movie Casablanca, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Along with the Mohawks, leaders, writers and dreamers through the years became a sort of collective which makes Censored News what it is, a service to #IndigenousPeople and #HumanRights.

We lost many of our best, #Lakota Warrior Woman #DebWhitePlume, our longtime friend #KleeBenally, our French translator #ChristinePrat, and many more. But thanks to those who keep sharing their work, we keep Censored News going. This summer our page views increased by millions, thanks to their labors of love.

Today, we celebrate the movements and people who inspire us, as we celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary at Censored News."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/honoring-movements-and-people-who.html

To donate - [email protected] via PayPal. Link to donations page:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/08/donate-to-censored-news.html

#IndigenousNews #ReaderSupportedNews #MicheleCook #OfeliaRivas #FloydWesterman #TohonoOodhamNation #BorderPatrol #Diné #Navajo #IndigenousActivists #LandDefenders #WaterDefenders #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi #Marcos #Mexico #Chiapas #Maori #Aotearoa #IndigenousResistance #NoBorders #LeaveItInTheGround #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRock

Watched
19th century #settlers move west murder, plunder, rape & steal land until #Lakota fight back.
2025 IllumiNative 2-part four-hour #documentary on life of #SittingBull & the alliance of #firstnations defeat “Indian-killer” Custer at #LittleBighorn & off the Reservation the travelling international celebrity with “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
Narrated by Mo Brings Plenty.

https://www.history.com/shows/sitting-bull/season-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull#Representation_in_popular_culture

#capitalism #CrazyHorse #resistance

:stargif: 𝑳𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝑳𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒔 :stargif:

Desde la distancia podía parecer una cama de madera elevada sobre cuatro postes.
Para un viajero europeo era una imagen extraña, incluso inquietante.
Pero para quienes la habían construido no era un espectáculo ni una forma de abandonar a sus muertos.
Era un lugar sagrado, un espacio donde el recuerdo seguía vivo y donde la muerte no rompía del todo el vínculo con la familia.

Durante siglos, distintos pueblos indígenas de las Grandes Llanuras practicaron un tipo de enterramiento que sorprendió a los primeros exploradores occidentales.
En lugar de depositar el cuerpo bajo tierra, lo colocaban sobre plataformas de madera o entre las ramas de un árbol, cuidadosamente envuelto en pieles de bisonte, mantas o túnicas.
La altura protegía los restos de los animales carroñeros, pero también tenía un profundo significado espiritual.

No fue una costumbre exclusiva de un solo pueblo.
Lakotas, dakotas, nakotas, cheyennes, crow, assiniboine, blackfeet, mandan y otras naciones indígenas desarrollaron variantes propias.
Cada comunidad tenía sus ceremonias, sus creencias y su manera de despedir a los difuntos.
No existía un único ritual, sino muchas formas diferentes de entender el viaje hacia la otra vida.

Cuando el paisaje ofrecía árboles resistentes, el cuerpo podía colocarse entre sus ramas.
En las inmensas praderas, donde apenas había bosques, se levantaban plataformas con postes y travesaños.
Algunas eran sencillas; otras estaban cuidadosamente construidas y podían verse desde bastante distancia.

Junto al fallecido era habitual dejar objetos personales.
Un arco, una pipa ceremonial, un cuchillo, herramientas, alimentos, tabaco o incluso el caballo del difunto en algunos casos.
No eran simples ofrendas.
Aquellos objetos representaban su vida, su identidad y, según las creencias de cada pueblo, podían acompañarlo en el camino que iniciaba tras la muerte.

Lo más llamativo es que, para algunas comunidades, aquella plataforma no era el destino definitivo.

Entre los mandan, por ejemplo, cuando el paso del tiempo había dejado los huesos limpios, estos se recogían para un nuevo ritual.
Los cráneos de algunos familiares se colocaban cerca de la aldea y los parientes acudían a visitarlos.
Les hablaban, les contaban lo que ocurría en la comunidad e incluso les pedían consejo.
La muerte no significaba una separación absoluta; el vínculo con los antepasados seguía formando parte de la vida cotidiana.

Una de las imágenes más famosas de esta costumbre fue realizada en 1834 por el pintor suizo Karl Bodmer, que acompañaba al naturalista alemán Maximilian de Wied-Neuwied durante su expedición por el río Misuri.

Cerca de Fort Pierre, Bodmer dibujó la plataforma funeraria de un importante jefe sioux.
El cuerpo descansaba dentro de un travois, la estructura de madera que normalmente se utilizaba para transportar cargas.
Debajo continuaba la vida: tipis, niños jugando, humo saliendo de las hogueras y familias realizando sus tareas diarias.
Para ellos, el difunto seguía formando parte de la comunidad.

Décadas más tarde llegaron las cámaras fotográficas.
Algunas de aquellas imágenes muestran plataformas funerarias todavía en uso a finales del siglo XIX, poco antes de que muchas de estas tradiciones comenzaran a desaparecer.

Pero esas fotografías también deben interpretarse con cuidado.

La mayoría fueron tomadas por militares, exploradores, comerciantes o antropólogos europeos y estadounidenses.
Muchos describieron estas prácticas desde su propia visión del mundo, sin comprender el significado espiritual que tenían para las comunidades indígenas.
Lo que para ellos era una simple forma de evitar que los lobos desenterraran un cadáver, para las familias representaba un complejo ritual lleno de simbolismo.

A finales del siglo XIX, la creación de reservas, las políticas de asimilación forzosa y la presión de los misioneros cristianos transformaron profundamente las costumbres funerarias de numerosos pueblos indígenas.
Poco a poco, las plataformas fueron sustituidas por cementerios convencionales o enterramientos adaptados a las nuevas circunstancias.

Sin embargo, muchas creencias sobrevivieron.

El respeto por los antepasados, la importancia de la memoria y la idea de que los muertos siguen formando parte de la comunidad continúan presentes en numerosas naciones indígenas de Norteamérica.

Quizá por eso aquellas estructuras de madera impresionaban tanto a quienes llegaban desde Europa.

No eran tumbas construidas para ocultar a los muertos.

Eran lugares levantados para que nunca dejaran de formar parte del paisaje... ni del corazón de quienes regresaban una y otra vez a hablar con ellos.

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#historia #curiosidadeshistóricas #indígenas #nativosamericanos #grandesllanuras #lakota #sioux #mandan #antropología #rituales #arqueología #tradiciones #culturanativa #ecosdelpasado

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: ⛰️🪓 After 70 years of #construction of the #CrazyHorse #Memorial in #SouthDakota, the Oglala #Lakota warrior's face, at a towering 26.5 m (87 ft), is complete.

Conceived by Chief Henry Standing Bear as a #NativeAmerican tribute, the project has drawn #Indigenous criticism for shifting focus to the sculptor's family and the #ethics of #carving natural #rock.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/crazy-horse-memorial-black-hills-video

#USA #history #americanhistory #design #explosions #geology #monuments #museum #nature #northamerica #rocks #sculpture #stone #tech #technology #tksst #video

⛰️🪓 After 70 years of #construction of the #CrazyHorse #Memorial in #SouthDakota, the Oglala #Lakota warrior's face, at a towering 26.5 m (87 ft), is complete.

Conceived by Chief Henry Standing Bear as a #NativeAmerican tribute, the project has drawn #Indigenous criticism for shifting focus to the sculptor's family and the #ethics of #carving natural #rock.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/crazy-horse-memorial-black-hills-video

#USA #history #americanhistory #design #explosions #geology #monuments #museum #nature #northamerica #rocks #sculpture #stone #tech #technology #tksst #video

#StandingRock and #Sisseton Wahpeton #Lakotas Seized by #ICE in Minnesota

#NativeAmericans are being detained throughout the United States illegally. Protests continue after the murders of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti by federal agents in Minneapolis.

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Jan. 25, 2026

"The Standing Rock Lakota Nation reports that a tribal member is being detained after being seized by ICE in Minnesota. Another #Lakota, Sisseton Wahpeton #Oyate, was arrested by ICE. He was located safe, but bruised. He was standing near the site where Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was murdered by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. The Sisseton tribal member was among those present who was arrested. He was released without being charged with any crime.

"Other witnesses standing near the site of the crime, the murder of Alex Pretti, say they fear for their lives, and have gone into hiding. Federal agents are reported hunting down the #witnesses to arrest them.

"Northern Cheyenne President Gene Small in Montana reports back from the Minneapolis Indian community."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/standing-rock-lakota-seized-by-ice-in.html

#USPol #ICEOut #ICEOutMinnesota #ReaderSupportedNews #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity #StandingRockLakota #SissetonWahpeton #NativeAmericansAreAmericans

“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

The Impact of Systematic Oppression on Indigenous Cuisine in the United States

#Frybread, sometimes called “#DieBread” or a “weapon of health destruction,” has multiple origin stories, and they all involve oppression and perseverance.

by Andrea Freeman, July 24, 2024

Excerpt: "On the hit television show #ReservationDogs, the only series ever to feature all #Indigenous writers, directors, and main cast members, the Indian Health Center invites rapper Punkin’ Lusty, played by real-life #Mvskoke rapper #StenJoddi, to perform his hit song '#GreasyFrybread.' [A song Dr. Lowry played during today's broadcast.] The occasion is #Diabetes Awareness Month. Lusty raps,

Baby girl looking deadly (Yeah!)
Why she acting all Rezzy (Yeah!)
Hotter than a pan of frybread grease!
Have a Native hittin’ Powwow Beats!
Gotcha Auntie in the kitchen
Like no he didn’t
Got her Gramama’s skillet
Like she ’bout to kill it!

The song solidly locates frybread within Indigenous culture.

Sofkee [a corn drink or soup] on the burner
Hokte Hokte [woman] head turner
Water baking powder
Choppin’ up that white stuff
All purpose flour
Gotta mix it right up
Hit the Rez with the Shits
They eats it right up! Watch the grease pop
Watch her waist drop
She got that blue bird bag [Blue Bird flour comes in a twenty-pound cloth bag and claims to be “The Native American Frybread Secret”]
In her tank top
he got that white powder
All over everything
She gettin’ to bussin’ man
But we ain’t cousins man!
We from the same tribe
But a different clan
She my Rez Bunny
And I’m her Red Man
She love my Tattoos
And my two braids
Frybread money at the Creek Fest get paid! On that!”

Foregrounding this song in the Health Center’s battle against diabetes underscores the other side of frybread’s legacy, also emblazoned on a T-shirt that announces 'Frybread: Creating #Obesity Since 1860.' #Cheyenne and #HudulgeeMuscogee #IndigenousRights activist #SuzanShownHarjo, who vowed to give up frybread as a New Year’s resolution, explains, 'Frybread is emblematic of the #LongTrails from home and freedom to confinement and #rations. It’s the connecting dot between healthy children and obesity, #hypertension, diabetes, #dialysis, #blindness, #amputations and #SlowDeath.' Reflecting on stereotypes that dehumanized Indigenous people to justify #colonization, such as the worn-out trope of Indians drinking 'firewater,' Harjo asserts that frybread love is another way to portray them as 'simple-minded people who salute the little grease bread and get misty-eyed about it.'

"In The #HeartbeatOfWoundedKnee, scholar #DavidTreuer introduces health educator #ChelseyLuger, who is #Ojibwe and #Lakota. Chelsey talks to Indigenous communities about the perils of frybread as part of her efforts to steer their diets in new directions, even in the face of limited food options. 'Sometimes people get defensive, but we are able to make the conversation positive. We say we grew up with it and like it and we say frybread is not power. We say frybread kills our people. It’s that serious. It causes diabetes and heart disease. We have to look at those colonial foods as a kind of enemy.' "

Read more:
https://lithub.com/weapons-of-health-destruction-how-colonialism-created-the-modern-native-american-diet/

#colonization #Colonialism #Decolonize #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #FoodInsecurity #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Comods #CommodityBoxes #CulturalErasure

When #SouthPark takes on Director of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Lakota kids have thoughts. Watch the young leaders of the #NativeAmerican Youth Organization #NAYO react to Season 27, Episode 2 — in which the show rips former South Dakota Governor (and current ICE Barbie) Noem, Donald Trump, JD Vance, I.C.E., and D.O.G.E.

The kids have raw reactions for you — and real talk connecting the jokes to their life experience, the history of Native boarding schools, ICE raids, the propaganda machine, economic insecurity, and Noem’s attacks on Native communities (and dogs) ... all with a call for global solidarity and unity.

This isn’t just comedy — it’s lived reality.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KKjo2XoR-lE

✊🏽 Learn how you can support NAYO and #Lakota Law's fight for justice: https://lakotalaw.org​

#IndigenousYouths #NativeYouths

#FirstVoicesRadio Host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Cheyenne River #Lakota, Welcomes #LeonaMorgan, #Diné, '#HaulNo!'

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Kingston, NY: "This week’s program was inspired by 'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', an article by our friend #BrendaNorrell in #CensoredNews on February 10, 2025. Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an #Indigenous organizer who has been fighting #NuclearColonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a #UraniumMine near the #GrandCanyon and transport thru #NavajoNation. Recently, Leona helped to halt #Holtec in #NewMexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/first-voices-radio-tiokasins-guest-is.html

'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5.

For more information, visit these websites: https://haulno.com/, https://www.genderandradiation.org/
and https://radioactivewastecoalition.org
#HaulNo #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #FourCornersToFukushima #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #AtomkraftNeinDanke #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#UteNation

#FirstVoicesRadio Host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Cheyenne River #Lakota, Welcomes #LeonaMorgan, #Diné, '#HaulNo!'

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Kingston, NY: "This week’s program was inspired by 'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', an article by our friend #BrendaNorrell in #CensoredNews on February 10, 2025. Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an #Indigenous organizer who has been fighting #NuclearColonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a #UraniumMine near the #GrandCanyon and transport thru #NavajoNation. Recently, Leona helped to halt #Holtec in #NewMexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/first-voices-radio-tiokasins-guest-is.html

'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5.

For more information, visit these websites: https://haulno.com/, https://www.genderandradiation.org/
and https://radioactivewastecoalition.org
#HaulNo #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #FourCornersToFukushima #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #AtomkraftNeinDanke #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#UteNation

#FirstVoicesRadio Host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Cheyenne River #Lakota, Welcomes #LeonaMorgan, #Diné, '#HaulNo!'

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Kingston, NY: "This week’s program was inspired by 'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', an article by our friend #BrendaNorrell in #CensoredNews on February 10, 2025. Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an #Indigenous organizer who has been fighting #NuclearColonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a #UraniumMine near the #GrandCanyon and transport thru #NavajoNation. Recently, Leona helped to halt #Holtec in #NewMexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/first-voices-radio-tiokasins-guest-is.html

'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5.

For more information, visit these websites: https://haulno.com/, https://www.genderandradiation.org/
and https://radioactivewastecoalition.org
#HaulNo #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #FourCornersToFukushima #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #AtomkraftNeinDanke #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#UteNation

#FirstVoicesRadio Host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Cheyenne River #Lakota, Welcomes #LeonaMorgan, #Diné, '#HaulNo!'

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Kingston, NY: "This week’s program was inspired by 'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', an article by our friend #BrendaNorrell in #CensoredNews on February 10, 2025. Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an #Indigenous organizer who has been fighting #NuclearColonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a #UraniumMine near the #GrandCanyon and transport thru #NavajoNation. Recently, Leona helped to halt #Holtec in #NewMexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/first-voices-radio-tiokasins-guest-is.html

'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5.

For more information, visit these websites: https://haulno.com/, https://www.genderandradiation.org/
and https://radioactivewastecoalition.org
#HaulNo #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #FourCornersToFukushima #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #AtomkraftNeinDanke #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#UteNation

#FirstVoicesRadio Host #TiokasinGhosthorse, Cheyenne River #Lakota, Welcomes #LeonaMorgan, #Diné, '#HaulNo!'

By First Voices Radio, March 9, 2025

Kingston, NY: "This week’s program was inspired by 'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', an article by our friend #BrendaNorrell in #CensoredNews on February 10, 2025. Returning guest Leona Morgan (Diné) is an #Indigenous organizer who has been fighting #NuclearColonialism since 2007. She is a cofounder of Haul No!, a campaign to stop a #UraniumMine near the #GrandCanyon and transport thru #NavajoNation. Recently, Leona helped to halt #Holtec in #NewMexico. Leona is also pursuing a Master of Community and Regional Planning at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/first-voices-radio-tiokasins-guest-is.html

'Flagstaff ‘NO!’ To Radioactive Trucks', February 10, 2025: https://bit.ly/3F8Tzb5.

For more information, visit these websites: https://haulno.com/, https://www.genderandradiation.org/
and https://radioactivewastecoalition.org
#HaulNo #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #FourCornersToFukushima #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWaste #FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #AtomkraftNeinDanke #PinyonPlain #WhiteMesaMill #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ShutDownPinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#ReaderSupportedNews #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture
#UteNation

[Thread] Unfortunately, South Dakota #HB1258 was defeated [which would have put more restrictions on #LithiumMining]... And I knew Burgum would betray #NativeAmericans (even though he promised not to).

‘Unleashing American Energy’: Mining and Drilling Accelerated Under Trump Administration

By Angelica (Angie) Solloa • February 12, 2025

"You may have heard that #DebHaaland (Laguna Pueblo) transitioned out of her role as the US Secretary of the Department of Interior and announced her candidacy for Governor New Mexico. Her successor, former North Dakota Governor #DougBurgum, is steadfast in carrying out Trump’s Executive Order 14154 '#UnleashingAmericanEnergy' which aims to accelerate #mining and drilling on federal and #TribalLands.

"On February 3rd, Doug Burgum released this document which outlines all the revoked projects and programs intended to protect land and the people; giving a pathway for #MiningCompanies to hit the ground running across Turtle Island.

"In the #BlackHills, the #SacredLands of the #Lakota Peoples’, mining and drilling companies aren’t hesitating to cash out. Currently, South Dakota House Bill 1258 is under consideration by the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, where it will come to a vote this Thursday, February 13th. Community members and citizens of the area were given just six days’ notice.

WHAT IS HB 1258?

"The passage of South Dakota House Bill 1258 would hold lithium mining to the same standards and laws as silver and gold. Under the current law, lithium mining is treated like mining for sand and gravel, and there are not enough protections for human #health, #food systems, #water, #wildlife, and the #land.

"HB 1258 would offer more accountability and appropriate processes for mining companies that would better protect the land, the people, and the economy of the #Ȟesápa. #NDNCollective, alongside partner the #BlackHillsCleanWaterAlliance, collaborated to spread the word as fast as possible, calling on relatives to swiftly take action ahead of Thursday, February 13th."

Read more:
https://ndncollective.org/unleashing-american-energy-mining-and-drilling-accelerated-under-trump-administration/
#ProtectTheBlackHills #ProtectTheSacred #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #DrillBabyDrill #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoLithiumMining #DefendMotherEarth

South Dakota governor’s cabinet nomination raises tribal concerns

Secretary of #HomelandSecurity nominee #KristiNoem has a long, complicated history with tribes in South Dakota.

Amelia Schafer
Nov 15, 2024

RAPID CITY, S.D. – "Early Tuesday morning, news broke that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a decision that’s raised red flags for Native people in South Dakota, but also may provide an avenue for change.

"'We need to come together now, more than ever,' Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said during a public intertribal meeting Nov. 13. 'I’m hoping we have a better governor in South Dakota that will work with us because we have issues that we need to bring to the table with the state.'

"Noem made South Dakota history earlier in May when she was banished from every reservation in the state following disparaging remarks made regarding alleged cartel activity on reservations and about Indian education. At one point Noem alleged tribal governments benefit from cartel presence and are failing their youth.

"During a May press conference, Noem responded to the banishments by asking why tribes 'don’t ban the cartels.' She’s banned from all nine reservations in the state: the #PineRidge, #CheyenneRiver, #StandingRock, #LowerBrule, #Rosebud, #LakeTraverse, #CrowCreek, #Flandreau and #Yankton reservations. Standing Rock and Lake Traverse both span into North Dakota."

[...]

"Emergency management is another area where Noem and the #OcetiSakowin (#Lakota, #Nakota, #Dakota nations have struggled.

"In December 2022, the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations were crippled by an extreme winter storm. Unable to get wood or propane, some households resorted to burning clothes and furniture to stay warm. A 12-year-old Sicangu Lakota boy, Honor Beauvais, died during the storm on the Rosebud Reservation, along with three other tribal citizens.

"When banning the governor, the #RosebudSioux tribe cited a delayed emergency declaration from Noem. Noem did not activate the South Dakota National Guard until Dec. 22, nearly 10 days after the storm began.

"The council also cited concerns with Noem’s support of the #KeystoneXL [#KXL] Pipeline in 2019 and an increase in penalties for pipeline protestors, referenced Noem’s opposition of #COVID19 checkpoints on the Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Reservations, removal of teaching standards regarding #NativeAmericanHistory, legal threats to the #FlandreauSanteeSioux Tribe regarding its #MedicalCannabis operations and return of unused Emergency Rental Assistance funds in 2022 without consulting tribes."

Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/south-dakota-governors-cabinet-nomination-raises-tribal-concerns

#DHS #TrumpAppointments #NoDAPL

What's going on in #IndianCountry?!!

Joy Rides into the Stratosphere, and #MilitaryIntelligence: Helium Balloons over #Navajo and #Lakota Nations, Indian Country

"#WorldView also announced a partnership with the military defense contractor #SierraNevada for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, for the U.S. military using its balloons. One of these balloon flights was for the U.K. defense department in the Grand Canyon."

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Sept. 5, 2024

"Joy rides into the stratosphere, and military surveillance, are two of the purposes for the helium balloons over the #NavajoNation, #LakotaNations in #SouthDakota, and most of Indian country, according to the owners of the helium balloons.

"#TheGuardian exposed the helium balloons #spying platforms and the #ACLU in South Dakota warned of this #surveillance. The balloons are capable of video recording vehicles traveling to #protests, and can reveal where the vehicles arrived from. It's spying without a warrant.

"The balloon owners, Aerostar and World View, have U.S. military contracts for recovering payloads, as was the case with World View's experimental payload recovery in the #GrandCanyon for England's defense department. These balloons can also carry out ground surveys.

"Aerostar is based near #SiouxFalls, South Dakota, and World View is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/joy-rides-into-stratosphere-and.html

#WarrantlessSpying #NativeAmericanActivists #AntiProtestLaws #BigMining #ClimateActivists #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #Environment #AntiProtest #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #SpyBalloons

Warriors for a New Generation: #Indigenous Youths at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, April 17, 2024

NEW YORK -- "Indigenous youths from around the world challenged #corporations and institutions -- rising as warriors, defenders and #changemakers that are honoring #MotherEarth and protecting future generations, at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Tuesday, the second day of the two week forum.

"#EnergyTransfer's lawsuit against #Greenpeace is an attempt to silence the voices for Mother Earth, and Indigenous who are battling the #DakotaAccessPipeline, said #MorganBringsPlenty, #CheyenneRiverLakota , speaking at the #UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

"Brings Plenty said #Lakota youths are here to warn the global community about the rising threat of abusive lawsuits known as #SLAPP lawsuits, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.
She said the lawsuit of Energy Transfer, owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline, is an attack on the peaceful protest of #IndigenousPeoples at #StandingRock in North Dakota from May of 2016 to May of 2017, and is seeking $300 million in damages. It is expected to go to trial this summer.

"'The lawsuit against Greenpeace is also an attack on the Indigenous movement in our fight for self determination to protect Mother Earth, our water, sacred and cultural sites, our youths, and future generations.'

"In her passionate appeal to the U.N. Permanent Forum, Brings Plenty said the lawsuit is trying to silence anyone that is speaking out.

"'These colonial lawsuits are sending a warning to anyone who is thinking about speaking out to be quiet.'

"'Any of you could be next.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/warriors-for-new-generation-indigenous.html

#StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #IndigenousRights
#RightToProtest #WaterIsLife
#CorporateColonialism #NativeAmericanActivists #IndigenousActivists #ProtectTheForest #WaterProtectors #LandDefenders #DefendMotherEarth #NoUraniumMining #BigMountainResistance
#RioTinto #DirectAction #ClimateJustice #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism

#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

UPDATE - 12/29/2023: "The #WoundedKnee descendants group has decided not to burn artifacts stolen from mass graves of #WoundedKneeMassacre victims after officials from the #CheyenneRiverSioux Tribe requested that they not burn those artifacts."

Wounded Knee descendants group plans ceremony for artifacts

A group of Wounded Knee descendants is planning to burn recently repatriated artifacts on December 29

by Amelia Schafer
Dec 25, 2023

RAPID CITY, S.D. – "Last November, more than 150 items stolen from mass graves of Wounded Knee massacre victims were returned to a group of descendants, the Si’Tanka Ta’ Oyate O’mniceye (Descendants of the Si’ Tanka Nation). Now, a year later, the group plans to burn the artifacts to mark the end of the one-year traditional bereavement period called wasigla.

"In 1890, more than 300 Lakota men, women and children were killed by the #UnitedStatesMilitary. The military had been sent to #PineRidge to stop a potential 'Indian uprising.' Instead, they encountered a band of #Mniconju Lakota led by Chief Spotted Elk (nicknamed Big Foot by the military). The military misinterpreted the group’s ghost dance songs as an intent to attack and opened fire on the band. Now 133 years later, the descendants of those who survived the massacre are working to preserve the memory of what happened that day.

"Mixed in amongst the artifacts are items from other tribes, Ojibwe moccasins, Dakota and Cheyenne beadwork and other items from other tribes were scattered in. Those items will also be burned.

"All repatriated items came from the #WoodsMemorialLibrary’s Founders #MuseumCollection in #BarreMassachusetts. The museum qualifies as a private collection.

"The Founders Museum did not respond to a request for comment. It is unclear if the museum’s entire 'Native American Collection' was given to the Wounded Knee descendants or just the Wounded Knee-related items.

"Some Wounded Knee survivor descendants claim they were left out of the process [to make the decision to burn the items]. The group said there are more than 500 descendants of Wounded Knee survivor James Pipe on Head alone, the grandson of Chief Spotted Elk.

"Broken Nose said just in Oglala, South Dakota over 30 families descend from Spotted Elk. This specific group is comprised of descendants who have met since 1980.

"Calvin Spotted Elk, a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said he feels the descendants have not been properly included in the decision-making process, especially those who live out of state. Spotted Elk lives in California."

https://ictnews.org/news/wounded-knee-descendants-group-plans-ceremony-for-artifacts

#Genocide #Lakota #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee
#IndianWars #GhostDance #Repatriation

The American Buffalo:
#SittingBull and the #WoundedKneeMassacre

Clip: 10/17/2023

"U.S. concern over a new #GhostDance ceremony prompted the arrest of the #Lakota #ChiefSittingBull. Dozens ended up dead, including Sitting Bull. Several hundred Lakotas headed toward the #BlackHills to end things peaceably with the #USArmy. En route, they camped at a creek called #WoundedKnee. The next morning, more than 250 Lakotas – mostly #women and #children – were killed by #US soldiers."

https://www.pbs.org/video/sitting-bull-and-the-wounded-knee-massacre/

#Genocide #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee #IndianWars

This Day in History - Dec. 29, 1890: Wounded Knee Massacre

Native News Online Staff
Thu, December 28, 2023

"On the morning of December 29, 1890, some 150 #Lakota men, #women and #children were massacred by the US #7thCalvary Regiment near #WoundedKneeCreek on the #PineRidgeIndianReservation. Some estimate the actual number closer to 300.

"Snowfall was heavy that December week. The Lakota ancestors killed that day were left in brutal frigid wintry plains of the reservation before a burial party came to bury them in one #MassGrave. The photograph of #BigFoot’s frozen and contorted body is a symbol for all American Indians of what happened to our ancestors."

https://news.yahoo.com/day-history-dec-29-1890-051500747.html

#USArmy #WoundedKnee #NativeAmericanHistory #Colonialism #Genocide #LandBack #History #PineRidge#NeverForgetWoundedKnee #Resistance #Genocide #IndianWars

[paywall] Centuries of resistance, from #WoundedKnee to #RedNation

By Justice Ramon Ocasio III
December 27, 2023 3:05 PM

"The 133rd anniversary of the #WoundedKneeMassacre, the deadliest #MassShooting in American history, falls on Dec. 29. On the fourth day after Christmas in 1890, #USArmy troops massacred as many as 300 #Lakota men, #women and #children near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota #PineRidgeIndianReservation in #SouthDakota."

https://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/ramon-ocasio-anniversary-of-wounded-knee-20231227

#Resistance #Genocide #CivilDisobedience #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee #Genocide #IndianWars

The #Lakota #GhostDance and the Massacre at #WoundedKnee

How the American drive to force Indian assimilation turned violent on the plains of South Dakota.

April 16, 2021 | Louis S. Warren

"For Americans, then, the challenge of #assimilation was the great social question whirling at the center of the Ghost Dance of 1890. A millennial enthusiasm for assimilating others, as well as a deep anxiety that they might refuse to be assimilated, explains much of what made the Ghost Dance so troubling. To most #WhiteAmericans, the dance itself was proof that assimilation had failed to dampen the savage impulse and that America’s irresistible conquest might prove resistible after all. In this light, the dances in South Dakota were more than just dances, and more than another Indian uprising. For Americans, something more, much more, was on the line."

Read more:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-lakota-ghost-dance-massacre-wounded-knee/

#Resistance #Genocide #CivilDisobedience #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee
#Genocide #IndianWars

The #OoomakaTokatakiya, Porcupine to #WoundedKnee

Day 14, December 28, 2023

Photos by Ken Marchionno and Future Generations Teen Photojournalism Project

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-oomaka-tokatakiya-porcupine-to.html

#NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee #Genocide #StandingRock #IndianWars #Lakota

[Photos] Ooomaka Tokatakiya, Kyle to Porcupine, The Ride to #WoundedKnee

Photos by Ken Marchionno and the Future Generations Teen Photojournalism Project

December 27, 2023

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/12/oomaka-tokatakiya-kyle-to-porcupine.html

#NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee #Genocide #StandingRock #IndianWars #Lakota

[Photos] #OomakaTokatakiya, The Badlands to Kyle, The Ride to #WoundedKnee

December 26, 2023

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/12/oomaka-tokatakiya-badlands-to-kyle-ride.html

#NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee #Genocide #StandingRock #IndianWars #Lakota

Stories from #WoundedKnee 133 years later

Chief #SpottedElk/#BigFoot descendants gather to discuss Wounded Knee

Amelia Schafer
Dec 21, 2023

"On December 29, 1890, around 300 #Lakota men, women and children including infants were gunned down by the #USArmy. Today, the massacre’s #Indigenous survivors live on through their descendants, who work to preserve the memory of what happened that day.

"Troops from Nebraska were sent to #PineRidge to curb a potential “Indian uprising” on the reservation. Instead, the troops found a band of #Mnicoujou Lakota led by Chief Spotted Elk (Si’ Tanka).

"The band was told they would be relocated elsewhere. Many had contracted pneumonia along their journey south, including the chief. The band was weak and exhausted. Some began to sing #GhostDance songs, which the military interpreted as war songs. Soldiers began firing at the Lakota. They chased some up to five miles from Wounded Knee Creek."

Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/stories-from-wounded-knee-133-years-later

#NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKneee #Genocide #StandingRock #PineRidge #IndianWars #ChiefBigFoot

#NativeAmericans Ride to Remember #WoundedKneeMassacre

by Cecily Hilleary, December 21, 2018

WASHINGTON — "Dozens of #Lakota and other #NativeAmericanAllies are about to converge on #Bridger, South Dakota, for a pilgrimage they've made every December for the last 32 years: a 300-kilometer journey on horseback, retracing the historic journey, of a Lakota chief and 350 of his followers, that ended in a massacre.

"#AlexWhitePlume, a former president of the #OglalaSioux on the #PineRidge Reservation, is a founding member of the ride, which he organized in 1986 on the advice of his uncle, a spiritual interpreter.

"'My uncle said that we had to do some grieving over the historic #genocide of our people," said White Plume. 'As Lakota, our whole purpose is to be pure from trauma, ill feelings, guilt. But the historic genocide weighed so heavily on us that we couldn't think past it.'

"His uncle told him they had to bring back the grieving ritual, which Lakota no longer practiced. And to do that, White Plume needed to go back to the place where the Lakota's collective grief began.

Massacre at Wounded Knee

"In mid-December 1890, acting on government orders, tribal police arrested and killed Hunkpapa Lakota leader #SittingBull outside of his cabin on the #StandingRock reservation. His death came at a time when the government was on edge, worrying that #PlainsTribes were plotting rebellion against the abysmal conditions on reservations.

"Fearing for his people's safety, Sitting Bull's ally, #Minneconjou Lakota leader Spotted Elk (dubbed "Big Foot" by the cavalry for the size of his shoes), fled south to the Pine Ridge Reservation with about 350 Lakota, most of them women and children.

"The Army intercepted the travelers, who submitted peacefully and made camp along Wounded Knee Creek in Pine Ridge. On the morning of December 29, the Army began a search for weapons. A shot rang out — who fired and why is still not clear.

"The #USArmy opened a barrage of rifle, pistol and revolving cannon fire.

"Spotted Elk was among the first to fall, and 30 minutes later, as many as 300 Lakota lay dead — adults, children, and even infants. It wasn't until three days later that Army contractors gathered the dead and buried them in a #MassGrave at the rate of $2 per body.

"The massacre marked the end of the #IndianWars, ushering in an era of subjugation, forced assimilation and broken treaties..."

Read more:
https://www.voanews.com/a/native-americans-ride-to-remember-wounded-knee-massacre/4707716.html

#Genocide
#NativeAmericanHistory #NeverForgetWoundedKneee #WoundedKneeMassacre