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Activists->Peltier,: Leonard Peltier eligible for parole hearing in December
Posted on Saturday, September 20 @ 03:24:17 CDT (620 reads)

AUTHOR: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Leonard Peltier is eligible for a parole hearing in December 2008, after more than thirty-three years in prison. There are several things you can do to help insure this hearing has a positive outcome.

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Activists->Sacred La: Prohibition Party's interest in Rum River name-change movement
Posted on Friday, September 05 @ 09:54:55 CDT (309 reads)

Wahkon writes By Thomas Dahlheimer

In response to a message about my movement to change the name of Minnesota's Rum River, a message that was sent to Gene Amondson, the 2008 Presidential nominee for the National Prohibition Party, I received a supportive call from him. We talked about the work we are doing to bring back Prohibition as well as establish dry states, counties and cities, etc. In respect to keeping him updated on the progress of my Rum River name-change movement and associated movement to bring back Prohibition, Amondson told me to call him whenever I would like to. Amondson is an international speaker and he has been on the John Stewart Daily Show once and on the Oprah show twice.

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Editorials: Proposals to help heal the genocidal wounds of indigenous peoples
Posted on Tuesday, July 01 @ 12:12:02 CDT (656 reads)

Wahkon writes In an article published in the Star Tribune, Minnesota's best-selling state-wide daily newspaper, Jeffrey Kolnick proposed that Minnesota "take a leadership role in the nation in dealing with the legacy of the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas".

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Issues->Racism: Healing the painful wounds of a genocide in Minnesota
Posted on Wednesday, June 04 @ 01:58:00 CDT (1349 reads)

Wahkon writes The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commissioners have acknowledged that Minnesota committed ethnocide and genocide against Native Americans during its early history.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Voice your opinion on renaming Squaw Peak to 'Piestewa Peak'
Posted on Thursday, April 03 @ 22:49:04 CDT (1722 reads)

AUTHOR: Connie Cone Sexton

Will feds pick 'Piestewa Peak'? Board to vote on idea as 5-year wait ends. It's not too late to voice your opinion, but time is running out.

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Activists->R. Means: Lakota Freedom Delegation not sanctioned by Sioux tribes
Posted on Tuesday, January 08 @ 13:29:57 CST (2037 reads)

On December 19, 2007, Russell Means and the Lakota Freedom Delegation, also known as Lakotah Oyate, went to Washington, D.C. and hand-delivered a letter, signed by the Delegation, to the U.S. State Department claiming that the Lakota Indian Tribe was declaring that all treaties between the tribe and the U.S. have been withdrawn or canceled. They also held a press conference declaring their freedom.

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Statistics: Most censored indigenous issues of 2007
Posted on Wednesday, January 02 @ 07:21:26 CST (2321 reads)

AUTHOR: Brenda Norrell

The most censored issue of Indigenous Peoples by the media in 2007 was the “Silencing of traditional and grassroots’ voices by those in power,” according to readers voting on a poll of most censored indigenous issues at the Censored Blog.

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Issues->Racism: Restoring The Fundamental Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
Posted on Thursday, December 20 @ 07:47:22 CST (1831 reads)

AUTHOR: Thomas Dahlheimer

The revocation of the 15th century papal bull, Inter Caetera, will definitely announce before the world community that the Vatican no longer supports the principle of subjugation that it promulgated five and a half centuries ago. The Roman Catholic church will be demonstrating its seriousness about respecting the rights and dignity of all peoples. The revocation of Inter Caetera will be an extremely important spiritual and symbolic gesture of peace and healing in creating a culture of peace on earth.

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Editorials: Native American Insult on the radio
Posted on Sunday, November 25 @ 02:57:05 CST (2314 reads)

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AUTHOR: Rev. Dan Newman

To Whom it May Concern; 12:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day I was listening to my was favorite radio station WGRR here in Cincinnati when I heard the following re-broadcast from Chris and Janeen morning show.

“A teacher had sent out a letter to students stating that not all families celebrate Thanksgiving! Native American consider Thanksgiving as a day of mourning due to 500 years of repression.” Janeen made the comment that “They needed to get over themselves!” I was so offended I’m not sure what Chris’s next comment was but something to the effect of “Who (referring to the teacher) put something in his noodles!”
Note: The requested apology has been given, thanks to your comments and phone calls.

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Musicians: Funds raised at benefit concert for preventing domestic violence, sexual assault and teen suicide
Posted on Wednesday, August 15 @ 22:13:25 CDT (2123 reads)

AUTHOR: Greg Peterson

Lakota teen suicide crisis addressed by Michigan/South Dakota musicians: Concert raises money for America's oldest Native American domestic violence shelter and to battle alarming suicide problem on Rosebud Reservation

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News->Health: Native american women suffer shocking rates of rape
Posted on Thursday, August 02 @ 02:23:35 CDT (2915 reads)

A new study released by Amnesty indicates native american and alaskan native women are raped three times more often than non native women. In Anchorage, the rate is an astounding ten times higher for native alaskan women.

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Activists->Sacred La: The Retribalization Of The World
Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 16:53:34 CDT (3652 reads)

Wahkon1 writes by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer******** I am a 60 year old activist who is spearheading an international movement to revert the derogatory name of Minnesota's "Rum River" back to its sacred Dakota Indian name Wakan, sometimes spelled Wahkon, and translated as (Great) Spirit. And I am also spearheading a movement to change 11 other MN geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians.

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R&S->Sacred Places: OTRR Regaining The Mdewakantons Mille Lacs ancestral homeland
Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 16:49:15 CDT (4702 reads)

Wahkon writes By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

On a Mille Lacs Kathio State Park interpretive sign, Leonard E. Wabasha is quoted as saying: "My people are the Mdewakanton Oyate. Mdewakanton means the People of Spirit Lake. Today that lake is known as Mille Lacs. This landscape is sacred to the Mdewakanton Oyate because one Otokaheys Woyakapi (creation story) says we were created here.

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Editorials: Combating White Racism
Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 16:44:24 CDT (3001 reads)

Wahkon writes By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

Jerry Mander, the director of The International Forum on Globalization (IFG), an organization that represents 60 organizations in 25 countries…wrote: "Our assumption of superiority does not come to us by accident. We have been trained in it. It is soaked into the fabric of every Western religion, economic system, and technology.

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Activists->Sacred La: Navajo - Hopi land dispute: settlement in site
Posted on Saturday, August 19 @ 01:38:08 CDT (3550 reads)

AUTHORS: Kathy Helms and John Cristian Hopkins, Dine Bureau

Navajo, Hopi negotiating teams reach agreement on language in the proposed compact

WINDOW ROCK -- Since 1958, the Navajo and Hopi tribes have been involved in litigation over various aspects of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute. A proposed intergovernmental compact would settle a lawsuit authorized by Congress in 1974.

In the lawsuit known as "the 1934 Reservation Litigation," the Hopi Tribe asserts that millions of acres of Navajo land are Hopi shrines or religious use areas and should be awarded to the Hopi. It also argues that Navajo families living in those areas should be relocated.

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