On May 17, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. the United States Department of State attempted to hold what they call a consultation with tribal representatives of the Great Plains Red Nations regarding the effects of the Keystone XL Pipeline on sacred sites. However, tribal, traditional and community members from the Lakota, Ponca, and Pawnee declared the meeting a sham. Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan Brewer made a statement dismissing the gathering as a sham because no leadership of the United States was present. Instead Obama’s administration sent low level clerks to meet with our tribal and treaty leaders. This disrespect to the provisions of the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty between the Lakota, Arapahoe, Cheyenne and the United States, as well as violations to international law and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, will not be tolerated. We will not negotiate about our sacred sites or any assault on Unci Maca (Mother Earth) and Mni Wicozani (Sacred Water). As tribal officials left the room the grassroots people of Owe Aku’s Moccasins on the Ground began to chant “Sacred Sites, worth the fight, Territory by Treaty Right” until the U.S. functionaries were forced to shut down the meeting.
We are decolonizing our Minds.
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PROTECTING SACREDWATER
Ama's Freedom School is dedicated to our children by providing decolonized educational programs based on traditional Lakota teachings and law.
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Crying Earth Rise Up!
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An initiative of Owe Aku and Prairie Dust Films, the Lakota Media Project began in 2003 to mentor Lakota youth and women on documentary film-making.
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The Moccasins on the Ground, a grassroots resistance training, focuses on skills, tactics, and techniques of nonviolent direct action in three day training camps.
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