Category Archives: Native American

Eye Candy

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This week’s pics of beautiful Canada.  I was thinking about Neil Young’s song and the video of the Earth before the energy companies move in, and how much is lost that cannot be regained after they’re done stripping the land…

Worth going to jail…

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This week’s eye candy from Canada.

#2 is breathtaking.  Can you imagine this being gone due to fracking or polluted with bitumen from a leak in tar sands pipeline, a la Kalamazoo?

Another beautiful rainbow on #3.

#9 talk about spoiling an otherwise gorgeous picture…same with #11.

Otherwise, great pics…

 

A letter from a mother

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Anne Clair, an Elsipogtog mother, wrote this about her son being jailed while protesting SWN trespassing on the native owned land.

Again, I ask–  If most of the taxpayers are against fracking and tar sands, then why are the oil companies allowed on that land?  Why were the police there and who are they working for if the taxpayers do not want this?

 

 

Honoring dead and missing women

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Idle No More has this up on a day to honor dead and missing Indigenous women.  I would like to expand that to all women—missing, dead, beaten, and raped.

Unfortunately, it’s in Canada…but yeah, if you’re not there, perhaps you could just take that time from 10:00 to 12:00 p.m. to meditate on that.  Not only on that, but how we can heal our society so that women are not seen as second class or “less than” for being….women.

Some suggestions:

–Say a prayer.

–Make a list of what you can do personally to stop the rape/violence against women culture.

–Change your thinking of hierarchy–that one must be “above” or “below” another.  And that one’s material wealth is equal to their spiritual worth.

–Examine the media.  Truly examine how the media sends messages of women’s worth.

–Listen to women.  Listen to what they tell you they want–don’t try to put your own ideas on to women.  And don’t, for pete’s sake, make us all one homogenous group….we are all individuals with different ideas, needs, wants, and goals.

Burning clothes for warmth…

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Warrior Publications has this up on the dire situation on Pine Ridge Reservation.  The Native folk are burning clothes to stay warm because of the brutal winter and propane *cough* shortage (if you believe that, I have some oceanfront property to sell you in Indiana–I am waaay too cynical to believe that the hikes in prices are due solely to shortages…methinks someone has some stashed somewhere…)

They are asking for donations to an organization called One Spirit, that helps with fuel.  Please donate if you are able.

ONE Spirit

PO Box 3209

Rapid City, South Dakota  57709

Blessings and warmth to all.

Tweeting…is a threat…?

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I had to watch this video (top) twice because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing–from a distance, it looks like a couple talking…he even has his arm around her like a good friend, and then *boom* he starts to haul her off.  She showed no weapon, was not yelling or otherwise threatening anyone…I was just stunned.

Even more stunning? How everyone else just allowed it to happen.  She had every right to be there and Harper and his goons had no right to interfere with that.

In the second video, she is saying that she wasn’t even tweeting–that she did not have her phone.  So they’re lying on top of taking away her rights?

Tweeting is not a threat.  Freedom of Speech is not a threat.

 

The right to be let alone

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Warrior Publications has this up on the Munduruku People fighting the centuries old fight against the dark side.  I will never understand someone thinking they can just go and take what they want with no regards to the rights of others.

This article doesn’t mention it, but mercury is also a factor in gold mining.  It was wise of them to protect their land and kick them off.

If you want to know more about the indigenous fight to be let alone, see Joe Kane’s book, Savages.

 

Putting an “X” on XL and Enbridge Pipelines

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Idle No More has put up  links to several folks speaking out against XL and Enbridge Pipelines:

Honor the Earth:

Rise Up Mother Earth:

Note how they characterize Mother Earth as crying–Earth isn’t a big ball of dirt, but a living, breathing organism.

Here’s a list of nationwide vigils.

The Black Snake will face mounting opposition.

What did Big Oil know and when did they know it.  Jack Gerard, head of the American Petroleum Institute, thought the pipeline was dangerous to the environment…bwahahahahaha *snort*   /just a little joke there, folks

Finally, Democracy Now! featured the XL in a debate with an industry insider and Friends of the Earth:

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/3/debate_state_dept_moves_keystone_xl

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/3/environmental_groups_shocked_by_reports_of

And this on Enbridge’s infamous 2010 Kalamazoo spill, with cleanup still not done.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/3/michigan_activists_face_up_to_2