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• Rape Denial of the SD Attorney General & Custer-

  Source Amnesty International conducted detailed research in three locations with different policing and judicial arrangements…: the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North and South Dakota, the State of Oklahoma and the State of Alaska. - snip –

• American Indian Activism at the DNC- I would have hoped that the Longest Walk that began in February and ended six months later, would have brought the issues of the truth about the suicides on reservations, the lack of justice on reservations, climate change, alcohol and drug addiction in the American Indian population, health concerns of American Indians, and the worries of the American Indian People in general into the public domain. It doesn’t seem like it did, and the same message is being given at the DNC in the midst of all that’s happening.
• Action: Rescind Wounded Knee Medals of Dis Honor- Petition: Medals of Dis Honor

  Twenty-three soldiers from the Seventh Calvary were later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the slaughter of defenseless Indians at Wounded Knee. We are asking that these Medals of DIS Honor awarded to the members of the 7th Calvary of the United States Army for the murder of innocent women children and men on that terrible December morning be rescinded.

  Credit & permission for image to & by www.myspace.com/removewoundedkneemedals
• Bad News about Bear Butte-

  "We continue to believe that someone important someplace cares and will do something before our situation becomes impossible." Fools Crow from "Fools Crow," by Thomas E. Mails. p. 217

• Police Brutality against Longest Walkers in Ohio (Updated)- Imagine beginning to walk from San Francisco in order to raise awareness about American Indian concerns in a good way and having walked over 2,400 miles since February; but then, you get to Ohio where eight police cars come swooping at you while one does the blocking. Suddenly, an officer comes and reaches into the window, grabbing the wheel.

• American Indians, Hollywood, and Stereotypes- Racism is based on ignorance and is passed down generationally. One racist adult caretaker may infect a few children with their racism; however, one racist film or television show would infect many more and more deeply ingrain any racism that already was in existence in my opinion. Examples such as in the following video have contributed to anti – Indian sentiments in the popular American culture in the relevant generations who viewed such films. How Hollywood stereotyped the Native Americans
  
• John McCain, Indian Agent -

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• Pe Sla in Black Hills to be "Sea of Houses"-

• Carter Camp's Indian Mascot Essay, "Mass Racial Taunting; America's Weekend Sport" - Carter Camp gave me his permission to repost his essay entitled “Mass Racial Taunting; America’s Weekend Sport” in the comments of "Stereotypical Elements (that) appear… in Athletic Contests" posted at Native American Netroots. I had mentioned that I wanted to cite the Shadow Report as an introduction, so here’s what the Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report says about Indian Mascots on page 72.
• Shadow Report: "Indian Reservation Apartheid"- …human rights violations and an institutionalized racism against indigenous peoples is alive and thriving in the United States...

  Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report III. Indian Reservation Apartheid “Apartheid” is certainly a strong word. And certainly, there are recognized tribes in the U.S. that are now achieving certain levels of relative prosperity primarily due to federal law allowing them to operate casinos, But the data contained in this section as well as others in this report (see, e.g., Violence Against Women, The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health) reflect what only can be described as a system of Apartheid on many Indian Reservations, where Indigenous people are warehoused in poverty and neglect. By purpose or effect, their only option is forced assimilation, the abandonment of their land, families, language and cultures in search of a better life.

• "Stereotypical Elements (that) appear… in Athletic Contests"-

  However, nowhere does the insensitive misuse of American Indian images, icons, and stereotypical elements appear more brashly than in athletic contests at the public high school level in Oklahoma.

  Savage Country: American Indian Sports Mascots Part One
  
• Custer Wannabes Happy about Pipeline & Black Hills-

  Custer's Pipeline & Genocide Denial

• McCain Instrumental in Removing Dineh-Navajo Tribe- How does history repeat itself? Let’s count some of the ways. One.
• "Dead Indian Creek" & Cultural Hegemony- Why say “Dead Warrior Creek,” when racism fuels cultural hegemony so well?

  Source The official name now is Dead Warrior Lake, ending for some a controversy over the lake's name that has been going on for almost a decade. - snip –

• 117th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre-
• Indian Boarding Schools: Cultural Assimilation and Destruction (Edited)- What happened inside the walls of theIndian Boarding School that used to be to the right here?
• Pretty Bird Woman House: Giving Hope (Update)- [Update]:
  betson08 reminds us about this challenge from Bubbanomics.

  Bubbanomics issued a challenge this weekend - he'll match all contributions up to a total of $1000 through today. So, if you donate right now it counts double! If you donate, leave a comment here or for bubbanomics about how much you donated.

• I Want Olbermann to Cover Pretty Bird Woman House- Olbermann's contact information

• Happy Thanksgiving!- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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• Medicine Bluffs: Celebrating Native American Heritage Month (Photo Diary)- The Medicine Bluffs are very sacred to me personally, and I want to share the feeling of awe, mystery, and power that I get whenever I have been there with very few words, letting the Medicine Bluffs and its history speak for itself.
• No Centennial for Indian Territory -

  
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  "Brand new state, Brand new state, gonna treat you great!

• Pledge: Become A Modern Day Warrior For Indigenous Rights (Updated & Edited)-

• Michael Medved And Genocide Denial- "Few opinions that I will express" are more certain that Michael Medved denies genocide. No, it is not an opinion, he literally denies genocide.

  
  Reject the Lie of White "Genocide" Against Native Americans

• U.S. Lecturing Anyone on Human Rights Like Ted Bundy on Women's Rights- Would someone please ask our illustrious candidates about this? Warning lengthy, but issues of law and history bear on present issues being discussed on Middle East and elsewhere. Blackfoot Indictment of the United States of America
• Custer's Pipeline & Genocide Denial- A Canadian company has the legal right to condemn land for a crude-oil pipeline through the eastern part of the state (South Dakota in this case) -
• (Updated) Modernized Manifest Destiny, "Ontario pulls out of Caledonia talks"-

  Krisztina Kun, a staff member at SFPIRG, and eyewitness to the standoff remarked that the blockade was characterized just as much by racial tension as it was by disputes over land ownership.
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• Pledge: Become A Modern Day Warrior For Indigenous Rights-

  NOT VANISHED, JUST OVER-LOOKED