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Narrative shift
We need to shift away from our capitalistic system to one that embraces indigenous ways of living. Not only to find answers to the dramatic failures of the current political and economic systems, but also to address the urgent need to deal … Continue reading
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We involve our spirituality within our actions
Following is information about the outbreak of the the covonavirus at Pine Ridge from Chase Iron Eyes, Lead Counsel of the Lakota People’s Law Project. I write with unfortunate news: we’re now dealing with an outbreak of the novel coronavirus … Continue reading
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Diagrams of social systems
One of my goals as a photographer is to tell stories, as in photojournalism. I actually wrote a few blog posts about a photo and 1,000 words 1 photo : 1,000 words I’ve found it helpful to ask myself what story … Continue reading
Oyate Health Center sees 16 positive COVID cases!
For the past several days I’ve been writing about South Dakota Republican governor Kristi Noem’s efforts to have the Cheyenne River Sioux, in northern South Dakota, and the Oglala Lakota Sioux, in the southwest corner of the state, take down … Continue reading
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South Dakota tribes continue COVID-19 checkpoints
This video of South Dakota governor Kristi Noem’s (Republican) press conference was revealing in that every question, and there were many, after the governor’s statement was about the COVID-19 checkpoints. The governor kept implying that the checkpoints were interfering with … Continue reading
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Sioux tribes reject South Dakota governor’s request
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem (Republican) demanded the Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribes take down their Covid-19 checkpoints on highways entering their lands. This is a microcosm of decades of colonization, the Republican policy of putting economics … Continue reading
THE TREATIES OF FORT LARAMIE, 1851 AND 1868
THE TREATIES OF FORT LARAMIE, 1851 & 1868 From the earliest days of the United States, the federal government had not known what to do about Indian tribes. Finally, in 1831, in a case titled Cherokee Nation vs Georgia, the Supreme Court decided that … Continue reading
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Sioux Treaty of 1868
Sioux Treaty of 1868 Background “This war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land from us without price.” –Spotted Tail The report and journal of proceedings of the commission appointed … Continue reading
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Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1851
Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Fort Laramie, in the Indian Territory, between D. D. Mitchell, superintendent of Indian affairs, and Thomas Fitzpatrick, Indian agent, commissioners specially appointed and authorized by the President of the United States, of … Continue reading
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SHIFT the Narrative
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed so many failures of our corporate capitalistic government and economic system. “The crisis began before the virus, and the crisis will continue beyond the vaccine” as Jason Livingston said. #CapitalismIsThePandemic. Click here for a story … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 