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Destroying Indigenous Populations |
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Saturday 20 June 2009
by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | PerspectiveRead piece with photo here The Fort Laramie Treaty once guaranteed the Sioux Nation the right to a large area of their original land, which spanned several states and included their sacred Black Hills, where they were to have "the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation" of the land.However, when gold was discovered in the Black Hills, President Ulysses S. Grant told the army to look the other way in order to allow gold miners to enter the territory. After repeated violations of the exclusive rights to the land by gold prospectors and by migrant workers crossing the reservation borders, the US government seized the Black Hills land in 1877. |
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“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” Paulo Freire Dear Defenders:
A year and a half ago, the Board of Directors of Defenders of the Black Hills agreed to stop the monthly meetings and mailings. The Coordinator’s health, the expense, and the time needed to put a mailing together were the primary reasons. The downside is, we are not able to get as much information out to all of you as we did before, and sometimes it has meant missing on comment due dates. The Angostura information on the backside of the address page is an example. Although we did submit comments from Defenders, it would have been better for more comments to go in. We will continue to supply as much information to you as possible. |
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Fri. & Sat. - June 26 & 27, 2009
Mother Earth Spiritual Run
Sponsored by 1st Nations United
Camping at Bear Butte on June 26th
Sturgis, SD
For info: 952-974-3257
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