A wise old Lakota-Sioux Woman

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The old photo to your left is an important one:Chief's Red Cloud and Sitting Bull. (Update: a fellow blogger notified me and corrected the Warrior next to Red Cloud is American Horse. Also see picture of American Horse in full headress at bottom of this blog) I'm a Lakota-Sioux ,born and raised in Central Wyoming on the Arapho/ Shoshone Rez. My wisdom comes from the school of hard knocks,and the paths I choose to take. Along with the advice and stories from my elders, my road has lead me here.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

3 things you need to know about islam


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This is a starter for anyone who is puzzled about what the Quran teaches.
From newzeal.com

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New Zeal: The "Weathermen"


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Anonymous said...

Since these terrorists cared so much for blacks, did they married blacks or had black kids or adopted blacks? How about asians? they are a bunch of hyprocrats who only care to maximize their utilities(very capitalist if you ask me) and they set the price for their product. There is no Marxism in what they did!


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These were the kids who were beaten up on America's playgrounds. Children of privilege whose very lifestyle was owed to the capitalists mothers and fathers who took advantage of the system and gave them everything, only to have them grow up to bite the hand that was feeding them. This documentary shows what vile little people these leftists really are.

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William ayers' father was the head of Illinois' Commonwealth Edison Electric Company .. he got off on a "technicallity." Money talks, bs walks, or as he'd say, "free as a bird, guilty as hell, ain't America great." And our prez associates with him and michelle worked with his wife, bernadine, who'd not any better than billy boy. argh, we had no media exposing this before the election. they decided to avoid the FACTS.

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William Ayers retired from his teaching job last week, wonder what his calling is going to be now? 8/11/2010

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

More NDN news


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By Gale Courey Toensing

Story Published: Jun 15, 2010

Story Updated: Jun 11, 2010

SELLS, Ariz. – The Tohono O’odham Nation and Arizona’s intertribal council have passed resolutions against S.B. 1070 – an anti-immigration state law that has unleashed a storm of protest from opponents who say it is a racist call to discriminate against people of color.

The Tohono O’odham Legislative Council passed a resolution May 19 opposing S.B. 1070 as “discriminatory state legislation” and supporting “lawful measures to repeal or invalidate” it.

Tohono O’odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. presented the resolution to the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. On June 4, the council’s 20 members unanimously approved a separate resolution against the law, council Executive Director John Lewis said. Both resolutions will be brought to the National Congress of American Indians at its mid-year meeting June 20 – 23 in Rapid City, S.D., where the congress will be asked to adopt a resolution opposing S.B. 1070.

S.B. 1070, which was signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer April 23, makes the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and gives police officers virtually unrestricted power to detain anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion” of being in the country illegally.

Police officers may consider race, color, or national origin to determine “reasonable suspicion” – an open invitation to racial profiling that is highlighted in the O’odham resolution.

“By failing to provide a definition for the ‘reasonable suspicion’ that allows state law enforcement officers to investigate immigrations status, S.B. 1070 encourages racial profiling that will disproportionately affect minority residents with legal immigration status.”

Furthermore, S.B. 1070 will also impact Arizona’s huge Native population, the resolution says.

“Although Native Americans have been present in what is now Arizona since time immemorial, many tribal members speak English as a second language, do not speak English, or were not issued birth certificates and lack documentation establishing their citizenship and lawful residence in the United States, and S.B. 1070 therefore will expose Arizona tribal members to arrest if they are suspected of being illegal aliens and cannot document their citizenship or lawful presence in the United States.”

The problem will be particularly acute on Tohono O’odham land, which is dissected east and west by state Highway 86. Tribal members use the highway and even sometimes hitchhike on it to get into Tucson, and therefore are vulnerable to any state law enforcement officer with a “reasonable suspicion” that those tribal members are illegal, Norris said. The police would have the authority to question and detain tribal members who couldn’t prove their citizenship.

“S.B. 1070 has the potential to create tension between law enforcement and the community not only outside the O’odham nation, but also inside the nation on Highway 86. Our concern is if a segment of the community is afraid to cooperate with the (state) police it’s our view that everyone in the community suffers,” Norris said.

While S.B. 1070 has a provision to acknowledge tribal enrollment cards as allowable identification, the O’odham resolution opposes requiring members to carry proof that they are “lawfully present within their aboriginal homelands.”

Tohono O’odham’s aboriginal territory was huge, covering southwestern lands extending south to Sonora, Mexico, north to central Arizona north of Phoenix, west to the Gulf of California, and east to the San Pedro River.

Even now, the nation has a vast homeland of 2.8 million acres in the U.S, but it is cut off from nine O’odham communities in Sonora by the international U.S.-Mexico border. The nation has an arrangement with the Department of Homeland Security and border patrol agents to acknowledge tribal identification cards to allow members from Mexico to travel north to avail themselves of health and other services the nation offers, a system that works “fairly well,” Norris said.

But it is the thousands of undocumented migrants crossing the 75-mile border onto O’odham land that presents the nation with unique challenges and expenses. S.B. 1070 does nothing to alleviate those problems, Norris said.

“It’s our belief that 1070 fails to address the border security crisis and it fails to address the need for comprehensive immigration reform.”

The O’odham nation spends more than $3 million a year dealing with the flood of illegal migrants coming through its territory, including expenses for border security, death investigations, drug trafficking investigations, trash removal and other services. The rate of migration has at times reached 1,500 people a day and now is around 700 – 800 people a day, Norris said.

O’odham’s law enforcement officers spend up to 60 percent of their time dealing with border security issues, taking away time that should be spent on protecting tribal members over the rest of the nation’s vast territory, Norris said. The nation receives no reimbursement for these expenses.

The solution is comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level, not a state law that will have disastrous consequences for the people and the state of Arizona, Norris said.

“The U.S. government needs to look at its current policies on how it addresses immigration. We believe immigration reform could make it more appropriate for persons, in this case, Mexican citizens, to become U.S. citizens. The process now is so cumbersome and discouraging and it’s not working.”

Norris said the nation also supports measures that would allow migrant workers to come into the country as guest workers. The problems of immigration are separate from the problems related to the crimes of drug trafficking.

“When we look at the migrants, all the migrants want to do is make a living for themselves and be in a position to contribute to the welfare of their own families. We believe if the U.S. reformed how it addresses immigration that would have much more of a positive impact in addressing illegal migrant activities than we currently have to deal with.”

Monday, July 6, 2009

Obama is out to destroy the Native Americans


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Only Native American U.S. Attorney to be Replaced

The Arizona Republic is reporting that President Obama is poised to replace the first and only Native American to serve as a U.S. attorney.

Dianne Humetewa, an enrolled member of the Hopi tribe, worked her way up through the ranks of the U.S. attoney's office, starting as a tribal liaison and victim rights advocate. She was appointed to the post 18 months ago by former President George W. Bush.


Humetewa will likely be replaced by Phoenix lawyer Dennis Burke, who was formerly the chief of staff for former Ariz. Gov. Janet Napolitano. Some are charging that his appointment to the post is political patronage.

Obama, as if holding a knife, slashing one by one from positions our Native women and men worked hard for most their lives and replacing them with sleazy, people who are using politics to move to a higher position within our government! It's all about power folks! Power! They don't care who they destroy along the way!
My Rant!


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