Language Lost
Mr. Russell Means comments on the lost of language and culture.
Native Americans Bear the Nuclear Burden
April 20, 2010 by Russell Means Freedom
Filed under Featured, Genocide, Water Contamination
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, [...]
Witnesses to Murder in Catholic Indian schools to Protest at the Vatican, Testify before Italian Parliamentarians
April 3, 2010 by Russell Means Freedom
Filed under Genocide, News
Breaking News: Rome, Thursday, March 25, 2010 Aboriginal elders from Canada will offer prayers for their friends and relatives who died or were killed in Catholic Indian residential schools, at the institution in Rome responsible for their death. And they will name Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, as the one ultimately responsible. Lillian Shirt of the [...]
Women Say No To War
October 11, 2009 by Russell Means Freedom
Filed under Featured, Genocide
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans recently returned from an eye-opening trip to Afghanistan. Their experiences convinced them even further that sending 40,000 more US troops would be disastrous for Afghan women and children. On October 3, their last day in the country, a US bomb hit a farmer’s house, killing two innocent women [...]
Blood on the Maple Leaf – Recent killings linked to Canadian Nickel Mine in Guatemala
RECENT KILLINGS LINKED TO CANADIAN-OWNED NICKEL MINE IN GUATEMALA Written by Dawn Paley Thursday, 01 October 2009 Source: The Dominion Two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala. The first shooting took place on Sunday, September 27 on land [...]
Violence in the Amazon – 1 dead, dozens injured in Indigenous Protests
Ecuador Support Indigenous Protesters; Stop Government Repression Oct. 2, 2009 Ecuadorian police have attacked peaceful Shuar Indigenous protesters near the town of Macas in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon, leaving at least one Shuar teacher dead. Please join Cultural Survival in condemning this state violence and urge Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa to refrain from further violence, [...]
