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    Worth noting that #Felon47 's favorite president is the 7th #POTUS Andrew Jackson, the mass murdering architect of the #TrailOfTears
    #Native #Indigenous #Genocide

  2. What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?

    Monday, July 14, 2025
    By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan

    "By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.

    "Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.

    "The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'

    "The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.

    "Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
    'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members.

    "The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.

    "Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'

    "Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.

    CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory

    "The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

    "The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.

    "As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'

    "So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?

    "Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."

    Source:
    indianz.com/News/2025/07/14/ge

    #WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail

  3. What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?

    Monday, July 14, 2025
    By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan

    "By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.

    "Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.

    "The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'

    "The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.

    "Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
    'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members.

    "The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.

    "Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'

    "Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.

    CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory

    "The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

    "The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.

    "As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'

    "So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?

    "Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."

    Source:
    indianz.com/News/2025/07/14/ge

    #WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail

  4. What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?

    Monday, July 14, 2025
    By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan

    "By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.

    "Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.

    "The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'

    "The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.

    "Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
    'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members.

    "The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.

    "Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'

    "Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.

    CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory

    "The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

    "The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.

    "As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'

    "So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?

    "Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."

    Source:
    indianz.com/News/2025/07/14/ge

    #WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail

  5. What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?

    Monday, July 14, 2025
    By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan

    "By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.

    "Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.

    "The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'

    "The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.

    "Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
    'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members.

    "The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.

    "Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'

    "Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.

    CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory

    "The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

    "The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.

    "As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'

    "So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?

    "Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."

    Source:
    indianz.com/News/2025/07/14/ge

    #WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail

  6. ‘Tis the Season to Talk #ClimateCollapse, #NuclearColonialism, and Freeing #LeonardPeltier

    by Desiree Hellegers, December 11, 2024

    "I don’t know about you, but personally, the whole festive holiday thing seems to be falling a bit flat this year. Don’t get me wrong, like every other year, I do plan to really go to town on a pumpkin pie or two. But this year, the annual deluge of Black Friday ads egging us on to higher levels of consumption–with corresponding carbon emissions and solid and liquid waste–seemed particularly hollow, morbid–predatory, even–falling as Black Friday did this year on November 29, the date the U.N. first recognized in 1977 as International Day of #Solidarity with the #PalestinianPeople. This year all the excess, forced pageantry, and planned obsolescence of Black Friday seems in such stark and ironic contrast to the poverty in #Gaza.

    From #Plymouth to Palestine

    "Winter is coming soon to Gaza where hundreds of thousands of shell-shocked people are struggling against the odds to care for themselves and their families–from infants to elders and recent amputees on crutches and in wheelchairs, as well as people with other disabilities– eking out lives in the streets, tents, and precarious ruins of shelled out apartments. In The Guardian, Kaamil Ahmed and Ana Lucía González Paz describe Gaza as a 'sonic hellscape' filled variously with the 'incessant buzzing of drones' and 'more violent intrusions: Israeli missile strikes, sirens, gunfire and the screams of frightened people.' And the situation is unlikely to get better under Herr Trump.

    "The man who as president moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem stands to personally profit from, as reported in The Guardian, investment his son-in-law Jared Kushner has in the removal of Palestinians from Gaza and its development as an Israeli waterfront resort. And no doubt Trump is also well aware of the profits to be had from exploiting Gaza’s offshore marine gas fields. But, if Jewish-led protests at the Thanksgiving Parade in New York City, and more recently in the Canadian Parliament, are anything to go by, solidarity actions against the unfolding genocide to Gaza are likely to continue to build in the run up to Hanukkah and the January inauguration.

    "But in the lead up to Christmas, Joe Biden seems as willing as ever to continue the seemingly limitless supply of U.S. weapons to help annihilate Gaza. I’m just speculating here, (so, please, sir, do not to put me to the dunking stool!) but Jesus himself might be the first to observe that giving birth in a manger sounds pretty idyllic right now to women in Gaza weakened by hunger, giving birth in the rubble of buildings that used to be apartments, universities and hospitals. No sterile sheets, no antiseptic, nothing to dull the pain, nothing to stop the next forced removal, the next relocation. The #PalestinianTrailOfTears."

    Read more:
    counterpunch.org/2024/12/11/ti

    #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes #WorldPol #USPol #Colonialism #TrailOfTears #ForcedRelocation #Genocide #FreeLeonardPeltier

  7. My personal bike blog crashed hard a while back. Restored posts up through Dec. 1, 2023, and now I'll be using the Internet Archives Wayback Machine to recreate lost posts from that point forward.

    In the meantime, here's a post I wrote in Nov. 2022 on biking programs and events related to Native America. Have anything to add for an update? bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w

    #BikeTooter #cycling #Indigenous #NDN #KidsBike #BikeArt #BikeTravel #TrailOfTears #IndigenousHistoryMonth #NationalDayOfMourning

  8. My personal bike blog crashed hard a while back. Restored posts up through Dec. 1, 2023, and now I'll be using the Internet Archives Wayback Machine to recreate lost posts from that point forward.

    In the meantime, here's a post I wrote in Nov. 2022 on biking programs and events related to Native America. Have anything to add for an update? bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w

    #BikeTooter #cycling #Indigenous #NDN #KidsBike #BikeArt #BikeTravel #TrailOfTears #IndigenousHistoryMonth #NationalDayOfMourning

  9. My personal bike blog crashed hard a while back. Restored posts up through Dec. 1, 2023, and now I'll be using the Internet Archives Wayback Machine to recreate lost posts from that point forward.

    In the meantime, here's a post I wrote in Nov. 2022 on biking programs and events related to Native America. Have anything to add for an update? bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w

    #BikeTooter #cycling #Indigenous #NDN #KidsBike #BikeArt #BikeTravel #TrailOfTears #IndigenousHistoryMonth #NationalDayOfMourning

  10. My personal bike blog crashed hard a while back. Restored posts up through Dec. 1, 2023, and now I'll be using the Internet Archives Wayback Machine to recreate lost posts from that point forward.

    In the meantime, here's a post I wrote in Nov. 2022 on biking programs and events related to Native America. Have anything to add for an update? bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w

    #BikeTooter #cycling #Indigenous #NDN #KidsBike #BikeArt #BikeTravel #TrailOfTears #IndigenousHistoryMonth #NationalDayOfMourning

  11. My personal bike blog crashed hard a while back. Restored posts up through Dec. 1, 2023, and now I'll be using the Internet Archives Wayback Machine to recreate lost posts from that point forward.

    In the meantime, here's a post I wrote in Nov. 2022 on biking programs and events related to Native America. Have anything to add for an update? bikestylelife.com/2022/11/27/w

    #BikeTooter #cycling #Indigenous #NDN #KidsBike #BikeArt #BikeTravel #TrailOfTears #IndigenousHistoryMonth #NationalDayOfMourning

  12. #MuscogeeCreek remembered their ancestors dug up for a #casino, before oral arguments were heard before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia

    By #Mvskoke Media, via #CensoredNews Sept. 25, 2024

    The Ancestors Were Here

    "Oral arguments in the Muscogee (#Creek) Nation, et al v. #PoarchBand of Creek Indians, et al. were heard today (Sept. 25) before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Ga. The appeal is for a suit filed against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for building a casino resort on the site of Hickory Ground's sacred burial ground in #Wetumka, Alabama.

    "#HickoryGround Ceremonial members marched to the courthouse this morning to sit in on the arguments and show their support.

    "In a press conference immediately following, lawyer #MaryKathrynNagle (#Cherokee) thanked the court for accommodating the Nation and members of Hickory Ground. She explained it is now up to the three judges hearing the case to decide what happens next, a decision could take months to be handed down due to the complicated nature of the case. Mekko George Thompson described his as a 'monumental day'.

    "Muscogee Creek Nation Principal Chief praised Nagle's efforts in the case and expounded on the importance of continuing to fight for #Mvskokvlke ancestors. 'It's been a long battle,' Chief Hill said. 'The things that are being done now are to prevent things that will happen in the future.'

    "The Nation's next stop on their '#JourneyForJustice' is #OxfordAlabama."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

    #MvskokeMedia #MuscogeeCreekNation #NativeAmericanNews #Alabama #BurialGround #WindCreekCasino #ChiefDavidHill #TrailOfTears #Wetumpka

  13. #MuscogeeCreek remembered their ancestors dug up for a #casino, before oral arguments were heard before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia

    By #Mvskoke Media, via #CensoredNews Sept. 25, 2024

    The Ancestors Were Here

    "Oral arguments in the Muscogee (#Creek) Nation, et al v. #PoarchBand of Creek Indians, et al. were heard today (Sept. 25) before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Ga. The appeal is for a suit filed against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for building a casino resort on the site of Hickory Ground's sacred burial ground in #Wetumka, Alabama.

    "#HickoryGround Ceremonial members marched to the courthouse this morning to sit in on the arguments and show their support.

    "In a press conference immediately following, lawyer #MaryKathrynNagle (#Cherokee) thanked the court for accommodating the Nation and members of Hickory Ground. She explained it is now up to the three judges hearing the case to decide what happens next, a decision could take months to be handed down due to the complicated nature of the case. Mekko George Thompson described his as a 'monumental day'.

    "Muscogee Creek Nation Principal Chief praised Nagle's efforts in the case and expounded on the importance of continuing to fight for #Mvskokvlke ancestors. 'It's been a long battle,' Chief Hill said. 'The things that are being done now are to prevent things that will happen in the future.'

    "The Nation's next stop on their '#JourneyForJustice' is #OxfordAlabama."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

    #MvskokeMedia #MuscogeeCreekNation #NativeAmericanNews #Alabama #BurialGround #WindCreekCasino #ChiefDavidHill #TrailOfTears #Wetumpka

  14. #MuscogeeCreek remembered their ancestors dug up for a #casino, before oral arguments were heard before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia

    By #Mvskoke Media, via #CensoredNews Sept. 25, 2024

    The Ancestors Were Here

    "Oral arguments in the Muscogee (#Creek) Nation, et al v. #PoarchBand of Creek Indians, et al. were heard today (Sept. 25) before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Ga. The appeal is for a suit filed against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for building a casino resort on the site of Hickory Ground's sacred burial ground in #Wetumka, Alabama.

    "#HickoryGround Ceremonial members marched to the courthouse this morning to sit in on the arguments and show their support.

    "In a press conference immediately following, lawyer #MaryKathrynNagle (#Cherokee) thanked the court for accommodating the Nation and members of Hickory Ground. She explained it is now up to the three judges hearing the case to decide what happens next, a decision could take months to be handed down due to the complicated nature of the case. Mekko George Thompson described his as a 'monumental day'.

    "Muscogee Creek Nation Principal Chief praised Nagle's efforts in the case and expounded on the importance of continuing to fight for #Mvskokvlke ancestors. 'It's been a long battle,' Chief Hill said. 'The things that are being done now are to prevent things that will happen in the future.'

    "The Nation's next stop on their '#JourneyForJustice' is #OxfordAlabama."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

    #MvskokeMedia #MuscogeeCreekNation #NativeAmericanNews #Alabama #BurialGround #WindCreekCasino #ChiefDavidHill #TrailOfTears #Wetumpka

  15. #MuscogeeCreek remembered their ancestors dug up for a #casino, before oral arguments were heard before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia

    By #Mvskoke Media, via #CensoredNews Sept. 25, 2024

    The Ancestors Were Here

    "Oral arguments in the Muscogee (#Creek) Nation, et al v. #PoarchBand of Creek Indians, et al. were heard today (Sept. 25) before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Ga. The appeal is for a suit filed against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for building a casino resort on the site of Hickory Ground's sacred burial ground in #Wetumka, Alabama.

    "#HickoryGround Ceremonial members marched to the courthouse this morning to sit in on the arguments and show their support.

    "In a press conference immediately following, lawyer #MaryKathrynNagle (#Cherokee) thanked the court for accommodating the Nation and members of Hickory Ground. She explained it is now up to the three judges hearing the case to decide what happens next, a decision could take months to be handed down due to the complicated nature of the case. Mekko George Thompson described his as a 'monumental day'.

    "Muscogee Creek Nation Principal Chief praised Nagle's efforts in the case and expounded on the importance of continuing to fight for #Mvskokvlke ancestors. 'It's been a long battle,' Chief Hill said. 'The things that are being done now are to prevent things that will happen in the future.'

    "The Nation's next stop on their '#JourneyForJustice' is #OxfordAlabama."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

    #MvskokeMedia #MuscogeeCreekNation #NativeAmericanNews #Alabama #BurialGround #WindCreekCasino #ChiefDavidHill #TrailOfTears #Wetumpka

  16. #MuscogeeCreek remembered their ancestors dug up for a #casino, before oral arguments were heard before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia

    By #Mvskoke Media, via #CensoredNews Sept. 25, 2024

    The Ancestors Were Here

    "Oral arguments in the Muscogee (#Creek) Nation, et al v. #PoarchBand of Creek Indians, et al. were heard today (Sept. 25) before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Ga. The appeal is for a suit filed against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for building a casino resort on the site of Hickory Ground's sacred burial ground in #Wetumka, Alabama.

    "#HickoryGround Ceremonial members marched to the courthouse this morning to sit in on the arguments and show their support.

    "In a press conference immediately following, lawyer #MaryKathrynNagle (#Cherokee) thanked the court for accommodating the Nation and members of Hickory Ground. She explained it is now up to the three judges hearing the case to decide what happens next, a decision could take months to be handed down due to the complicated nature of the case. Mekko George Thompson described his as a 'monumental day'.

    "Muscogee Creek Nation Principal Chief praised Nagle's efforts in the case and expounded on the importance of continuing to fight for #Mvskokvlke ancestors. 'It's been a long battle,' Chief Hill said. 'The things that are being done now are to prevent things that will happen in the future.'

    "The Nation's next stop on their '#JourneyForJustice' is #OxfordAlabama."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

    #MvskokeMedia #MuscogeeCreekNation #NativeAmericanNews #Alabama #BurialGround #WindCreekCasino #ChiefDavidHill #TrailOfTears #Wetumpka

  17. March 26, 1839 - The Cherokee Indians came to the end of the “Trail of Tears,” a forced march from their ancestral home in the Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma Territory. General Winfield Scott, under orders from President Andrew Jackson, arrested then drove the tribe’s members through the winter, leaving 4000 dead along the route.
    #TrailOfTears #CherokeeNation
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  18. It is going to happen again.
    Be like Worcester (I phrase I never thought I'd use), and educate yourself and others.

    youtube.com/watch?v=qalhDKLrWE

    #TrailofTears
    #CherokeeNation
    #AndrewJacksonWasaMonster

    FIN sorry I lost count it's just so upsetting

  19. At any rate, Georgia ignored the decision, did not free Worcester and others, and looked to the feds to remove the Cherokee people.

    In 1838, the US military showed up and forcibly removed people from their houses and forced them on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.

    #TrailofTears
    #CherokeeNation #AndrewJackson #SupremeCourt
    14/?

  20. The people whose ancestors, for centuries, have specialized in DISPLACEMENT are worried about “replacement.”
    That’s rich.
    In fact, it’s hilarious.
    “Replacement theory.”
    AYFKM?
    Get th’ fugoutta here.
    #ReplacementTheory #MAGA #WhiteNationalism #SlaveTrade #HumanTrafficking #IndianRemoval #IndianRemovalAct #TrailOfTears #ManifestDestiny #Islamophobia #antiSemitism #antiAsian #antiImmigration #reservations #slavery #genocide #segregation #racism #bigotry #paranoia

  21. The people whose ancestors, for centuries, have specialized in DISPLACEMENT are worried about “replacement.”
    That’s rich.
    In fact, it’s hilarious.
    “Replacement theory.”
    AYFKM?
    Get th’ fugoutta here.
    #ReplacementTheory #MAGA #WhiteNationalism #SlaveTrade #HumanTrafficking #IndianRemoval #IndianRemovalAct #TrailOfTears #ManifestDestiny #Islamophobia #antiSemitism #antiAsian #antiImmigration #reservations #slavery #genocide #segregation #racism #bigotry #paranoia

  22. The people whose ancestors, for centuries, have specialized in DISPLACEMENT are worried about “replacement.”
    That’s rich.
    In fact, it’s hilarious.
    “Replacement theory.”
    AYFKM?
    Get th’ fugoutta here.
    #ReplacementTheory #MAGA #WhiteNationalism #SlaveTrade #HumanTrafficking #IndianRemoval #IndianRemovalAct #TrailOfTears #ManifestDestiny #Islamophobia #antiSemitism #antiAsian #antiImmigration #reservations #slavery #genocide #segregation #racism #bigotry #paranoia