Raid at Eagle Rock; Two campers arrested, camp destroyed

Dozens of heavily armed Police and State Troopers have raided the peaceful defenders camp at Eagle Rock in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; “crushing” the month-long effort to protect the sacred site from a controversial sulfide mine. Greg Peterson Reports. BIG BAY, Mich. – The defenders of sacred Eagle Rock sat in a circle and wept as [...]

Counting Coup – Lakota Citizens Stop US Helicopters from Landing at Wounded Knee

By : Russell Means In answer to today’s United States Government and its Colonial Corporation, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Govenment’s press conference: “We the Lakotah People, do not want our massacred dead bodies of Men, Women and Children at the mass grave at Wounded Knee used for publicity by the United States Government nor their [...]

Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States

Left out is also is the disaster in our relations with the American Indians with who we broke treaties with, stole their land and subjected them to live in impoverished conditions within a concentration camp without locks. ~Russell Means, Chief Facilitator, Republic of Lakotah 19 March 2010 -Patrick Martin On March 13, China’s Information Office [...]

Native Americans Bear the Nuclear Burden

by Andreas Knudsen Reprinted from Indigenous Affairs, January/February/March 1996. Published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Native communities, primarily in the western US, have been chronically exposed to low doses of radiation for over forty years. This exposure derives from the many nuclear activities on indigenous lands such as uranium mining and milling, [...]

Means spirited: American Indian actor and activist honored at Haskell film festival

By Jon Niccum March 26, 2010 Russell Means’ Lakota Sioux name (Oyate Wacinyapin) translates to “Works for the People.” It’s fair to say the American Indian activist and actor has earned that designation. “I’ve made a difference in everything I’ve participated in,” Means says. The 70-year-old first came to the public’s attention in the 1970s [...]

Russell Means: UN Listening Session is US Smokescreen

Thursday, March 18, 2010 Russell Means: UN Listening Session is US Smokescreen Statement by Russell Means, Republic of Lakotah on the Occasion of the United States State Department “Listening Session” in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 16 March 2010 Once again, the occupation government of the United States of America has trotted out its dogs and ponies [...]

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