Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe





Willie Nelson and Neil Young standing in solidarity (wearing buffalo robes) w/ the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe! #NoDAPL











Link: http://standingrock.org/


Standing Rock Sioux Tribe





Willie Nelson and Neil Young standing in solidarity (wearing buffalo robes) w/ the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe! #NoDAPL











Link: http://standingrock.org/


Sunday, May 15, 2016

Apaches


S.C. Gwynne on the Apache Wars



The Savage War v. Apaches was horrible but archaeological sites show they fought each other pre 1492 in savage wars.

The Savage War in the West

The Apache armies did not go gently. They went down in an exceptional spasm of violence.




Saturday, April 9, 2016

Chippewa Indians Migration To Nunavut (Silent Enemy)


 

Published on Feb 14, 2014
 
Likely
saved through oral tradition, this 56 minute film from 1930, details an
event which commenced the Ojibway Indians trek to the Barren Lands or
Barren Grounds, in search of food and happiness. 

Silent Enemy (famine)
begins with the Ojibwa Indians living far to the south where forests and
lakes abound. 

They first commenced a southward migration but were
forced to change plans. As a result of less game, the Ojibwe Indians
agree to migrate north into what is the Barren Grounds of far northern
Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Barren Grounds of far
northern Alaska. 

They knew the caribou in the 100,000s, if not millions,
left the forest to head north into the barren lands each spring and
stayed until autumn. The Caribou Eaters food supply was bountiful and
from food preservation allowed them to live permanently in the barren
lands. 

Chief Yellow Robe stars as Chetoga. He was directly related to
chief Sitting Bull. Though it is thought that Silent Enemy was inspired
by the 1922 film Nanook of the North, it is the clear subject of a
migration up north which provides a story for this film. It is dramatic
and realistic. 

The animal fight scenes are not fake. It was filmed in
northern Alaska. You'll notice scenes filmed outdoors during frigid
weather. 

Brave were the actors, especially chief Yellow Robe who was
either 63 or 69 when the movie was made. Chief Dagwan represents the
Hare Indians who were known to be conjurers. They are also known as
Sahtu which is probably a mispronunciation of Saulteaux. 

They are the
northern most Saulteaux or Chipewyan. All Athabascan or Dene people are
Algonquin according to the 1832 Edinburgh Encyclopedia which recorded
the Dene being from the Lenni Lenape or Delaware people.

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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Helena: Nicholas Vrooman "The Whole Country Was...O...





 Learn about the history of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of
Montana and their struggle to become a federally recognized tribe from
historian Nicholas Vrooman.



Link: https://youtu.be/FZ7WDfmY4XQ



 

Rebuilding Indian Country - 1933


 

Chippewa
Indians make fishnets. Indians work on roads with tractors, picks, and
shovels, stand in line at a field kitchen, engage in native handicrafts,
and spear salmon on the Columbia River. Pima Indians farm. Shows an
Indian Emergency Conservation camp. Indian children attend church in
Arizona.

Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/tran...

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Russell Means: Welcome to the American Reservation Prison Camp (Full Len...


 

Uploaded on Jan 14, 2011
Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.PrisonPlanet.tv
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The
United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says
Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the
American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in 1973 led a
standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation, a response to the massacre of at least 150 Lakotah men,
women, and children by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry at a camp near Wounded
Knee Creek.

American Indian Russell Means gives an eye-opening 90
minute interview in which he explains how Native Americans and
Americans in general are all imprisoned within one huge reservation.
Means is a leader for the Republic of Lakotah, a movement that has
declared its independence from the United States and refused to
recognize the authority of presidents or governments, withdrawing from
treaties it made with the federal government and defining its borders
which cover thousands of square miles in North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana.

Means explains how American
Indians have been enslaved within de facto prisoner of war camps as a
result of the federal government's restriction of their food supply and
the application of colonial tactics, a process that has now also been
inflicted on the United States as a whole which has turned into, "one
huge Indian reservation," according to Means.

Means warns that
Americans have lost the ability of critical though, and with each
successive generation become more irresponsible and as a consequence
less free, disregarding a near-perfect document, the Constitution, which
was derived from Indian law. Means chronicles the loss of freedom from
the 1840′s onwards, which marked the birth of the corporation, to
Lincoln's declaration of martial law, to the latter part of the 19th
century and into the 20th when Congress "started giving banks the right
to rule," and private banking interests began printing the money.

"The
history of the American and the history of the Indian have now come
full circle and are intertwined in the dictatorial policies of those
that control the monetary system of America," remarks Means, pointing
out that the elite are now so out of control that they are destroying
themselves as well as the country.

"You've exported everything
that makes a country run, for your greed, for Wal-Marts, for this idiocy
of just buy, buy, buy and debt, debt, debt," states Means, slamming
apathetic Americans for allowing the Republic to be commandeered by two
political parties who are almost identical. Means says Americans have
lost their culture and dispensed with their values as a result, with
families being broken up as a result of the de-industrialization of the
country, allowing the nation to be subject to mob rule.

Means
explains how the patriarchal pyramid structure of power is designed to
prevent itself from ever being changed, which is why he urges Americans
to "go local," uniting families and communities and preventing people
from being divided and conquered by building co-operative structures
from the grass roots level on a model similar to that used by the
Quakers. "It doesn't mean uniformity, it doesn't mean socialism,"
explains Means, pointing out that such a system is built around common
goals and unanimous outcomes.


 


Black ElkQuotes by John G. Neihardt


“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
― Black Elk


“The Holy Land is everywhere”
― Black Elk



“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks


“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”
― Black Elk



“Behold this day. It is yours to make.”
― Black Elk



“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions”
― Black Elk



“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk



“All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.”
― Black Elk



“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk


“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”
― Black Elk



“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.”
― Black Elk




“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk



“While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;
For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being....And I saw that it was holy”
― Black Elk


“Know the Power that is Peace.”
― Black Elk




“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...”
― Black Elk




“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks



“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk


“Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the
Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk


“there can be no power in a square”
― Black Elk



“I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.”
― Black Elk


“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
― Black Elk


“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
― Black Elk



“This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know, but if you think about it, you can see that it is true.”
― Black Elk


“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk




“The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk






Black Elk Speaks


Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John G. Neihardt



“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk


“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk

“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk


“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk



“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
― Black Elk



“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk


“Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the
Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk


“I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.”
― Black Elk


“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux





Find quotes
Quotes By John G. Neihardt


LINK:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3813941-black-elk-speaks





Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war








https://youtu.be/8tEuaj4h8dw





Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war

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Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from TEDxDU. 


Aaron Huey
Born December 9, 1975
Residence Seattle, Washington
Nationality United States
Occupation Photographer
Website AaronHuey.com

Aaron Huey (born December 9, 1975) is an American photojournalist and documentary photographer who is most widely known for his walk across America in 2002 and his work on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He grew up in Worland, Wyoming, graduating from Worland High School. He received his BFA from the University of Denver, in Colorado in 1999.


External links



Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Huey







American Holocaust of Native American Indians (FULL Documentary)



 

Uploaded on Nov 5, 2011
The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite
possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust,
which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which
claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous
People.

It is seldom noted anywhere in fact, be it in textbooks
or on the internet, that Hitler studied Americas Indian policy, and used
it as a model for what he termed the final solution.

He wasn't the only one either. Its not explicitly mentioned in the film, but its
well known that members of the National Party government in South Africa
studied the American approach before they introduced the system of
racial apartheid, which lasted from 1948 to 1994. Other fascist regimes,
for instance, in South and Central America, studied the same policy.

Noted even less frequently, Canadas Aboriginal policy was also closely
examined for its psychological properties. America always took the more
wide-open approach, for example, by decimating the Buffalo to get rid of
a primary food source, by introducing pox blankets, and by giving $1
rewards to settlers in return for scalps of Indigenous Men, women, and
children, among many, many other horrendous acts. Canada, on the other
hand, was more bureaucratic about it. They used what I like to call the
gentlemans touch, because instead of extinguishment, Canada sought to
remove the Indian from the Man and the Women and the Child, through a
long-term, and very specific program of internal breakdown and
replacement call it assimilation. America had its own assimilation
program, but Canada was far more technical about it.

Perhaps these points would have been more closely examined in American Holocaust
if the film had been completed. The films director, Joanelle Romero,
says shes been turned down from all sources of funding since she began
putting it together in 1995.

Perhaps its just not good business to invest in something that tells so much truth? In any event, Romero produced a shortened, 29-minute version of the film in 2001, with the
hope of encouraging new funders so she could complete American
Holocaust. Eight years on, Romero is still looking for funds.

American Holocaust may never become the 90-minute documentary Romero hoped to
create, to help expose the most substantial act of genocide that the world has ever seen one that continues even as you read these words.
watch - Native american Holocaust Exterminate Them! The California Story (FULL) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgopN...