Jo Ellen Darcy’s Petition …. “Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline” …. !!

~~September 8, 2016~~ 

NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH

I’m 13 years-old and as an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, I’ve lived my whole life by the Missouri River. It runs by my home in Fort Yates North Dakota and my great grandparents original home was along the Missouri River in Cannon Ball. The river is a crucial part of our lives here on the Standing Rock Reservation.

But now a private oil company wants to build a pipeline that would cross the Missouri River less than a mile away from the Standing Rock Reservation and if we don’t stop it, it will poison our river and threaten the health of my community when it leaks.

In Dakota/Lakota we say “mni Wiconi.” Water is life.

Native American people know that water is the first medicine not just for us, but for all human beings living on this earth.

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https://www.change.org/p/jo-ellen-darcy-stop-the-dakota-access-pipeline

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~~GALLERY~~ 

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~~Rezpect Our Water: Sign our petition~~

~~Published on Apr 27, 2016~~

We, the Standing Rock Youth, oppose the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through the Missouri and Cannon Ball River because it poses a serious threat to our water and our land. This campaign echoes our belief that together, we can protect our water and our future.

Join our mission for clean safe water by signing our petition urging the Army Corps of Engineer NOT to sign off on a construction permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline. With YOUR help we can work to maintain and protect this sacred land.

SIGN OUR PETITION: http://www.change.org/RezpectOurWater
Spread the word: @rezpectourwater

We ALL are ONE!! 

IOTD …. Image of the day, #564 …. “Julius K-9 …. Let Loose on ‘Protectors’ …. “!!

~~September 7, 2016~~ 

BLOODIED MOUTH 

Here’s photographic evidence that the dogs were set loose on the ‘protectors’.

Julius K-9

These are attack dogs from a private security company.

Remind you of anything?

HortyRex©

The Dakota Access Pipeline has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada.

Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! producers were on the ground Saturday, September 3,  when the pipeline company attacked Native American protesters with dogs and pepper spray.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed evidence Friday that the proposed Dakota Access pipeline route falls directly on sacred Sioux sites.

Hours later, Goodman and Democracy Now! producers witnessed unexpected construction at one of the sites.

“This was a Labor Day weekend.

The bulldozers don’t work on the weekend,” Goodman tells Joy-Ann Reid.

“But this weekend, the day after they gave over that information, they’re there bulldozing over those sites.”

We ALL are connected through HUMANITY!! 

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http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/watch_amy_goodman_describes_dakota_access

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IOTD …. Special Edition …. “Standing Rock Sioux Tribe …. “!!

~~September 6, 2016~~ 

STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE

HISTORY

The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was originally established as part of the Great Sioux Reservation.

Article 2 of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of April 29, 1868 described the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation, as commencing on the 46th parallel of north latitude to the east bank of Missouri River, south along the east bank to the Nebraska line, then west to the 104th parallel of west longitude.

The Great Sioux Reservation comprised all of present-day South Dakota west of the Missouri River, including the sacred Black Hills and the life-giving Missouri River. Under article 11 of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, the Great Sioux Nation retained off-reservation hunting rights to a much larger area, south to the Republican and Platte Rivers, and east to the Big Horn Mountains.

Under article 12, no cession of land would be valid unless approved by three-fourths of the adult males. Nevertheless, the Congress unilaterally passed the Act of February 28, 1877 (19 stat. 254), removing the Sacred Black Hills from the Great Sioux Reservation.

The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is situated in North and South Dakota.

The people of Standing Rock, often called Sioux, are members of the Dakota and Lakota nations.

“Dakota” and “Lakota” mean “friends” or “allies.”

The people of these nations are often called “Sioux”, a term that dates back to the seventeenth century when the people were living in the Great Lakes area.

The Ojibwa called the Lakota and Dakota “Nadouwesou” meaning “adders.”

This term, shortened and corrupted by French traders, resulted in retention of the last syllable as “Sioux.” There are various Sioux divisions and each has important cultural, linguistic, territorial and political distinctions.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://standingrock.org/

http://standingrock.org/history/

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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IOTD …. Special Edition …. “American People …. fighting for their rights …. Any Change? …. “!!

~~September 4, 2-16~~ 

AMERICAN PEOPLE STILL FIGHTING 

Lawrence O’Donnell presented an excellent explanation on his weekly show about the struggle, protection, protest taking place in the Dakotas.

I found the video of his presentation and would like to share it with you.

Add to that, the fact that yesterday, the pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray.

This is something that needs to be shared because other stories in the media are overshadowing the fact that special interests are trying to ‘step out’ on complying with promises/treaties made to the Native Americans of this country.

This should be front page news!!

Shame, America, shame!

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On September 3, the Dakota Access Pipeline Company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline’s construction.

Democracy Now!

‘This Nation Was Founded on Genocide’

From the start of colonial intrusion, the free and original peoples of this hemisphere  “have been treated as enemies and dealt with more harshly than any other enemy in any other war.”

While this in itself is not news, the source of this statement is.

This quote comes not from an activist, a historian or a researcher squirreled away in an obscure academic corner, but from a high-profile commentator speaking on MSNBC.

“After all our other wars we signed treaties and lived by those treaties,” noted Lawrence O’Donnell at the segment at the end of the August 25 edition of his nightly news show The Last Word.

“After World War 2 we then did everything we possibly could to help rebuild Germany.”

In other words, “no Native American tribe has ever been treated as well as we treated Germans after World War 2.”

O’Donnell issues this scathing indictment by way of explaining the peaceful protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. He talks of Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s fear of foreign invaders “who want to change our way of life” and notes that it’s “a fear that Native Americans have lived with every day for over five hundred years.”

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“The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American we could, and making treaties with the rest,” he says.

“This country was founded on genocide before the word genocide was invented, before there was a war crimes tribunal in The Hague.”

Nor does he end there. He explains how “Every. Single. Treaty.” has been broken; how only a few generations have passed since the “business of killing Indians” has ceased. He cites the camps near Standing Rock as potent reminders of despicable acts most Americans would rather forget … and on and on.

It’s a statement worth watching more than a few times, and he ends with a statement that resonates, a paying of respect to the resilience and strength of Natives:

“The people who have always known what is truly sacred in this world.” 

“As it appears in … full read/full credit” 

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/26/nation-was-founded-genocide-msnbcs-lawrence-odonnell-dakota-access-165594

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~~Rewrite: The Protests At Standing Rock~~

The Last Word

~~Published on Aug 26, 2016~~

In the Rewrite, Lawrence explains why a protest by Native Americans in North Dakota reminds us of the history American always tries to forget.

MSNBC

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