Bootlegging
The following is from Russell Means in response to the article following it. Re: On the Bootleggers’ Trail in Indian Country I’m happy you touched upon the alcohol problem of the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian reservation. But the depth of the problem goes deeper, much deeper. In short it is the policies of the United [...]
Columbus Day
Why AIM opposes Columbus Day and Columbus Day Parades by Glenn Morris and Russell Means When Taino Indians saved Christopher Columbus from certain death on the fateful morning of Oct. 12, 1492, a glorious opportunity presented itself. The cultures Europe and the Americas could have merged, and the beauty of both races could have flourished. [...]
Check this report out from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on the IHS
Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System (2004) http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/nahealth/nabroken.pdf
Debra White Plume: Keep out! Radioactive Sacrifice Area
By Debra White Plume Powertech USA Inc. is embarking on a path of destruction from which there is no return. The company plans to start in situ leach mining in South Dakota’s Custer and Fall River counties that will puncture through four aquifers on the Great Plains and endanger a fragile geologic system. As a [...]
Maude Barlow: “The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History”
In the following video piece, Maude Barlow, head of the largest public advocacy group in Canada, the Council of Canadians, speaks out against the growing injustices in the world, as well as giving voice to the ecological catastrophe being wrought upon the world for the sake of ‘civilization.’
Raid at Eagle Rock; Two campers arrested, camp destroyed
Dozens of heavily armed Police and State Troopers have raided the peaceful defenders camp at Eagle Rock in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; “crushing” the month-long effort to protect the sacred site from a controversial sulfide mine. Greg Peterson Reports. BIG BAY, Mich. – The defenders of sacred Eagle Rock sat in a circle and wept as [...]
Counting Coup – Lakota Citizens Stop US Helicopters from Landing at Wounded Knee
By : Russell Means In answer to today’s United States Government and its Colonial Corporation, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Govenment’s press conference: “We the Lakotah People, do not want our massacred dead bodies of Men, Women and Children at the mass grave at Wounded Knee used for publicity by the United States Government nor their [...]
Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States
Left out is also is the disaster in our relations with the American Indians with who we broke treaties with, stole their land and subjected them to live in impoverished conditions within a concentration camp without locks. ~Russell Means, Chief Facilitator, Republic of Lakotah 19 March 2010 -Patrick Martin On March 13, China’s Information Office [...]
Russell Means: UN Listening Session is US Smokescreen
Thursday, March 18, 2010 Russell Means: UN Listening Session is US Smokescreen Statement by Russell Means, Republic of Lakotah on the Occasion of the United States State Department “Listening Session” in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 16 March 2010 Once again, the occupation government of the United States of America has trotted out its dogs and ponies [...]
Uranium Mining In The Black Hills – Debra White Plume’s Response to ‘Clean Nuclear’
by Debra White Plume, Feb 2010 The planned uranium mine site in the southern Black Hills can impact four aquifers. Powertech, Inc. USA plans to begin uranium extraction in 2011 and operate for 15 years in the permit area of 10,580 acres located in Dewey and Burdock Counties, north of Edgemont, SD. PT plans to [...]