Standing Rock update: not that anyone should care but me, but I am greatly saddened at the lack of character in all but a few my native sisters.......

Standing Rock update: not that anyone should care but me, but I am greatly saddened at the lack of character in all but a few my native sisters and brothers. Yes, it is no worse than what I see in most populations. My God, it is so understandable. But it is so rare that any is a revolutionary Force. Why am I saddened by this? Because I hoped it would be different. A strength of the culture I believe is a desire to unite with the spirit of the universe. But we humans unite more strongly, more powerfully, with more wisdom, more courage, more grace, more decency when we primarily Unite toward the well-being of the neediest,  human and nonhuman. I see this as a fundamental weakness of native cultures, their focus is too abstract and too removed from Humanity. An additional terrible weakness is a focus on mysticism, not unlike Christianity for example, but both are thereby crippling of their adherents because they bleed energy away from the real Battle Ground which is the spirit within human individuals and in common. If there's a constructive reason for me to share this it is in the off chance that a sister or brother, particularly native, cares to take it to heart and to try and Lead to a more hopeful way of being.

The reality represented by July 4th is this: protecting slavery and antagonism toward Native Americans was inseparable from the lofty ideals promulgated by the founding fathers. Yes, the one percenters of 1776 sought “freedom” from a colonial master. But accurately understanding our history makes it clear that the “revolution” was not against colonialism per se. Rather it was to swap the masters at the top of the colonial pyramid from those who lived in England to those who lived in Virginia, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Georgia and the rest of the 13 colonies. ........

http://www.alternet.org/culture/o-say-can-you-see

Idle No More tiny house builds awareness of big problem. Small home to be shipped to Big River First Nation

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/saskatoon/idle-no-more-tiny-house-builds-awareness-of-big-problem-1.3364243

***** The Great California Genocide

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/15/567667/-The-Great-California-Genocide

Shocking Quotes on Indians By U.S. Leaders Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/10/nice-day-genocide-shocking-quotes-indians-us-leaders-part-1-150362

Shocking Quotes on Indians By U.S. Leaders

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/10/nice-day-genocide-shocking-quotes-indians-us-leaders-part-1-150362

How Brazil's World Cup has sold its people short in the Amazon. The Guardia

How Brazil's World Cup has sold its people short in the Amazon

The Guardia

The World's Threatened Tribal Peoples. www.survivalinternational.org

The World's Threatened Tribal Peoples

www.survivalinternational.org

Survival helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.

Plight of Earth's most threatened tribe makes headlines worldwide. owl.li

Earth Tribe - Activist News and Deep Green Resistance shared a link.

Plight of Earth's most threatened tribe makes headlines worldwide

owl.li

The tribe's shocking story is featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times this month.

LOL! WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT INDIGENOUS??? ROFL! Climate change: Indigenous Australians 'face disproportionate harm'. The Guardian

Climate change: Indigenous Australians 'face disproportionate harm'The Guardian

Brazil's indigenous stage protests to demand lands. U-T San Diego

Brazil's indigenous stage protests to demand landsU-T San Diego

Native Brazilian tribes and slave descendants demand land rights. Raw Story

Native Brazilian tribes and slave descendants demand land rights

Raw Story

vid, link: Papua New Guinea’s remote Western Province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and their environment....

Idle No More shared Alex Pademelon Johnson's event.

Petersham, Australia:

Papua New Guinea’s remote Western Province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and their environment.
BHP has dumped billions of tonnes of tailings from their Ok Tedi copper mine into the Ok Tedi and Fly River systems since 1987.
In 2001, landowners enlisted the support of Australian lawyers, Slater and Gordon to pressure the mine to stick to an earlier commitment to clean up the mine waste from the river. However the legal process took a dramatic turn when BHP decided to ‘exit’ the mine....See More

Inner West Film Forum - 'Colour Change', PNG and Australian Corporate Colonialism

September 24 at 7:30pm in UTC+10

Petersham Bowling Club in Petersham

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Hey, they're only savages. What's it to US? Illegal gold mining exposing Peru's indigenous tribes to mercury poisoning The Guardian

Illegal gold mining exposing Peru's indigenous tribes to mercury poisoning

The Guardian

Sámi protest against British mining company. The Sámi and other activists have been blockading a mining road since early July.

Idle No More shared a link.

Sámi protest against British mining company

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The Sámi and other activists have been blockading a mining road since early July.

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'We'll fight against oil exploration', Brazilian Indians declare. Survival International. AND YOU???

'We'll fight against oil exploration', Brazilian Indians declare

Survival International

***** see link: "You, dear Start Loving, you are the quintessential "Indigen" and your sacrifice slowly moves into the collective meme so that maybe more will come to see ourselves as Indigenous not to one region or another or to any particular virgin native ground but to the entire Earth itself."

 Have I ever received a more important complement?  From

Dave Warren 

You, dear Start Loving, you are the quintessential "Indigen" and your sacrifice slowly moves into the collective meme so that maybe more will come to see ourselves as Indigenous not to one region or another or to any particular virgin native ground but to the entire Earth itself.

....

May I live up to what Dave says.  It is the entirety of what I want, what I will, what I owe you all.

Makes me cry.

Nothing less from me will do.  Nothing less from me is acceptable.

Nor, from you, now.

Loving.  Sakihiwew. 

ps:  If the Creator gave me the option to be reborn (after my work here is done), and gave me a choice, for PERSONAL reasons - I'd choose America - 100 years before Columbus landed.  Well, ok, I'd choose to be with Jesus, 0 C.E. or so, but America, 100 years before Columbus would be my 2nd choice.

pps:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/dave-warren/ode-to-the-tar-sands-blockaders/10151142496983859

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew

NPR Brazil's Indians Reclaim Land Citing Promises, Using Force. NPR

NPR

Brazil's Indians Reclaim Land Citing Promises, Using Force

NPR

Half of First Nations children live in poverty. CBC.ca

Half of First Nations children live in poverty

CBC.ca

Brazil's treatment of its indigenous people violates their rights

International pressure must be brought on Brazil to protect its native peoples against industrialisation of the Amazon