…so the news here has been all over the map with reports on Standing Rock–

The report a few days ago was this:  The Army Corps of Engineers has given Oceti Sackowin until Dec. 15th to vacate….

…and I thought Dec. 15? Why Dec. 15th…?  My first thought was after I saw the video below was that they were afraid of this.

We are veterans of the United States Armed Forces, including the U.S. Army, United States Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard and we are calling for our fellow veterans to assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on Dec 4-7 and defend the water protectors from assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security.
2K EVENT CAPACITY ACHIEVED: Event capacity based on accommodations, travel logistics and supplies; given the time we have to coordinate, resources available and the shipping and weather conditions in the region has been set at 2,000 rostered participants. We currently have over 2,100 Veterans on the roster. Our goal now is to prioritize this list to Veterans and Civilian personnel involved with operations, planning & onsite execution. We will be collecting names for future missions on a new roster ( https://goo.gl/forms/37SEWGvbeMLpcrvY2), next mission could be as early as the 2nd week of December. More to come

The funds we raise on this page will go towards providing food, transportation and supplies for the brave patriots that come and stand with us.  

We’ll be standing alongside peaceful water protectors, who’ve endured violent attacks from the private security funded by DAPL and more brutality and arrests at the hands of militarized police and DAPL security. We have full support of the Sioux tribe elders and will be cooperating with them every step of the way.

I first read this a few days back…and I had mixed feelings about it.  For one thing, anything CNN covers leaves me with a cynical feeling of what is their game?  They sure the hell haven’t been covering Standing Rock with any legitimate journalism.  They haven’t been stating that there was no riot, that the water protectors have been peacefully protesting with prayer and chanting Mni Wiconi!  (Water is Life!  in Lakota)

So I am very, very skeptical that there aren’t strings attached. Anything Big Media covers  is done for some reason that isn’t readily apparent.

My fear is that this is just to placate people so that they will let their guards down  and think things are being taken care of — so they can go back to their lives.  If you haven’t noticed…this is exactly the game plan over and over again for co-opting people’s organizations so that they lose their energy– I have just seen it over and over again and many good organizations have lost their power that way.  Or they were infiltrated by those who talk the talk, but don’t have the cojones to see things through nor do they share the views.

I know Veterans for Peace were there when I was in Oceti Sakowin…so I know there are kindred spirits who want the same thing the Native Americans want…but the problem is when they *take over* and want to do things their way instead of letting the Native folk lead the way.

On the other hand, support is needed and welcomed.  I just hope that it is given without expecting anything in return — no bravado, no puffing up the ego, no expectations that they are owed *anything* for standing up against a militarized force that has brutalized people ON THE LAND THAT WAS GIVEN TO THEM IN AN 1851 TREATY.

Now, for the video:

 

 

**Edited to add:  I meant to state that Dec. 15th is a date that the Native folk, especially the Standing Rock Sioux, Lakota, Nakota, Dakota will remember:  it was the date that Sitting Bull was murdered in 1890.  Wounded Knee happened just two weeks later:  December 29, 1890.

Then the radio reports stated that the North Dakota governor was declaring an emergency and they were going to immediately remove the campers in Oceti Sakowin…because…this is hard not to laugh at when you see the above video…the governor was worried about them with the approaching snow storm….*snort*  bwahaahahahahahahaha

Yet again today, the reports stated that they are going to remove them Dec. 5th.

 

 

A good piece here on the circle of life and how important clean water is to our health and wellbeing…and that of the fish, the birds, the four-leggeds, and the creepy-crawley things…

Oil and other nasty things in our water impact not only us but *everything* around us.

 

So…I’ve been watching the overwhelming forest fires across the country over the last few years.  It was amazing at how many there were…

I just couldn’t shake the thought that perhaps they were purposely set.  But why?

I was leaving Rapid City a couple of weeks back…and the sky had this eerie orange cloud over it.  I mean, the sun looked as orange as it would if it were at sunset.  It scared me so I hightailed it out of the area.

And got yet another migraine the day after.  I did my coffee enema and had to do two more before the headache started to back off a bit.  I have come to learn that the more toxic I am, the less able I am to go the entire 15 minute waiting period.

This showed me how toxic I was.

Was it the chemical they were spraying on the trees?

Why did it remind me of something…?

And then remembering how planes looked spraying Agent Orange popped into my head….only this picture is of planes spraying chemical fire retardants on forest fires.

And then I thought about the trees here and pretty much everywhere — there is something strange happening because there is a perfectly healthy tree with the middle part (taller part) deforested….in other words, the needles have fallen off.  It’s bare.

In Indiana, many trees are showing stress with needles turning orange and falling off.

If you look at the bottom of the page, it states:

As a point of interest, since the fertilizer concentration in long-term fire retardant is higher than that sold at garden stores, it may cause leaf burn

Bingo.

A story here on a judgment against the Forest Service spraying.

This blog site speaks about glyphosate, or as we know it — RoundUp, that lovely product from Monsanto.  Monsanto also manufactured Agent Orange.

And it should be noted that the VA has a page up on the continuing lingering damage of these herbicides…that seem to continue to harm those that work around the planes that sprayed the chemicals.

Based on the HMD report, VA has decided to acknowledge exposure to Agent Orange for personnel whose military service involved regular contact with the contaminated C-123 aircraft. This includes individuals who performed service in the Air Force or Air Force Reserve who regularly operated, maintained, or served onboard C-123 aircraft known to have been used to spray herbicides during the Vietnam era.

This was noted to have been a problem up to 1986!  The planes were toxic eleven years (and probably more) after Vietnam ended.

After the fire in Rapid, there was another fire in Spearfish, a community 30 or so miles away.

Then I saw the fire set at Oceti Sakowin camp.  It was quite deliberately set….and although the police were constantly patrolling the area, they suddenly stopped patrolling during the time that the fire was set and burned…for hours.  Thankfully, Nature intervened and put out the fire.

But one has to wonder at the fires and who is setting them.  And why.  Why are they using such toxic chemicals that were purposefully used in Vietnam to deforest the place?

 

A Martinez has the video below posted.  I didn’t know if it was the actor A Martinez, because people will put a celebrity’s pic up with the name and fake people out.   But I see it is the real deal when he appears near the end of the video.

In this video, A Martinez shows not only Standing Rock, but the massacre at Wounded Knee.  Wow, it really hurt to see the dead bodies…Holocaust.  Then he shows Carlisle school, which I wrote about briefly in my blog on Lost Bird.

Carlisle school is notorious with the tribes.  Children would be sent there away from their families to be molested, whipped, beaten for speaking their native language, nearly starved, and some died physically while, I would say, many if not all died spiritually.

One native from this area spoke about his experience.  He was hungry and took an apple — one apple — from the kitchen.  The priest who searched him found the apple and beat him severely.  An apple!

Other children were killed by staff and were buried without a name on the tombstone nor justice for the parents.  Carlisle school and other *Indian* schools did what smallpox and wiping out the buffalo could not — killed or tried to kill — their culture, their family connections, their spirituality.

I see this now being played out among the general American public.  It was done much sneakier, however, as the Feminist movement encouraged women to *break their chains* to get out of the home, put their kids into the care of strangers, and claim their *liberty* .  This, along with trying to humiliate women who wanted to breastfeed,  was the beginning of the end, as I see it looking back.

I have noticed that the first generation of children taken away from their mothers, via working moms putting their kids into childcare, have a disconnect with their elders and, a lack of ethics and morality.  I don’t see a spirituality growing with them, and some are even proud atheists.  They take without any conscience of giving back.  That scares me.  And this is not to look down on them, but an observation and fear of what is coming down the road.  They stole our children while we were busy making plans (like John Lennon said — life happens when you’re busy making other plans).

On with the video — Martinez shows the demonstration at the Mandan Court house.  You can see the eagle I wrote about on the side of the building.  I wish you all could feel the positive love and energy coming from those of us praying and drumming.  It truly was beautiful but can’t be felt just watching the video.

16:02 shows the full moon over the Oceti Sakowin camp.  It was truly that magical and beautiful.

And the sunrises are spectacular as you can see.

16:20 shows a white horse with brown spots.  I loved that horse.  He came up to my car and looked in at me like he wanted to say *hey, how you doin* 🙂

 

 

 

 

…has to be the epitome of cowardice..

We have DAPL employees showing up with assault rifles.  Who are the terrorists, again…?

The whole world is watching.  The whole world is watching.