Sie erhalten die Möglichkeit, sich über aktuelle Situationen bei den Indianern Nordamerikas in Englisch zu Informieren und an entsprechenden Hilfsaktionen teilzunehmen.
Evelin Červenková
Begründerin der Lakota Oyate Information
You have the possibility to inform yourself about the current life of Native Americans and you can take part in helping actions.
Evelin Červenková
Founder of the Lakota Oyate Information in East-Germany
Von: Judith LeBlanc, Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund info @ nativeorganizing.org
Date: Fr., 18. Apr. 2025
Subject: Tell the Smithsonian: Don't remove any U.S. history. Stand strong against Trump's
threats.
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Evelin,
The Trump administration is trying to erase U.S. history: threatening schools, removing Native peoples' contributions from government webpages, and deleting mentions of Harriet Tubman, slavery, and transgender people on National Park Service websites.
For centuries, Indigenous peoples have pushed back against colonialism's cultural erasure. Here at Native Organizers Alliance, we're supporting the movement to re–Indigenize national parks, including exhibitions that tell the true history of these parks — such as how the parks were not "untouched wilderness" but were in fact violently stolen from the original inhabitants of this land.
Millions of visitors from around the U.S. and the world come every year to the Smithsonian museums — including the National Museum of the American Indian, which designed exhibitions in collaboration with Tribes. All 21 museums run by the Smithsonian Institution are free to the public.
Trump is now attacking the Smithsonian, releasing an executive order with lies about what he calls the Smithsonian's "divisive, race-centered ideology." The order specifically targets the exhibits on slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the upcoming American Women's History Museum for the possible inclusion of trans women and their accomplishments.
But the threat to the Smithsonian goes far beyond these examples or any individual exhibit. The entire future of these museums are at stake as the executive order mandates withholding as much as 70% of the Smithsonian's budget — $1.3 billion in federal funding a year. It could mean the Women's History Museum never even gets built and other museums like the American Indian Museum are shut down.
First established by Congress in 1846, the Smithsonian has largely operated on its own without much interference in its 179–year history. But now, the Smithsonian is under threat. Its budget is allocated by Congress and federal workers make up a majority of its employees.
The Smithsonian Board of Regents includes Chief Justice John Roberts, Vice President J.D. Vance, U.S. Senators (Cortez Masto, Peters, and Boozman), U.S. Representatives (Giménez, Matsui, and Smith), and nine U.S. citizens.
Many of these voices are more reasonable than Vice President Vance, who has spent years disparaging education about systemic racism, saying it's a "distraction" that's "about making us ashamed of where we came from." This is similar to Trump's language in his falsely named "Restoring Truth in American History" executive order, which claims that "the widespread effort to rewrite history" (how he refers to telling the truth) "deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame."
We know that their racism and hate deepens societal divides. The fact that systemic racism exists is what's shameful, not the act of speaking the truth about racism. Challenging systemic racism is a core part of our work at Native Organizers Alliance, which is building multiracial coalitions around Turtle Island.
Fortunately, in response to Trump's Executive Order, Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch reiterated the institution's core values, writing: "As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation's history, challenges, and triumphs."
Hawwih ("thank you" in Caddo) for taking action to honor truth–telling and challenge racist narratives,
Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Executive Director
Von: One Spirit jbaker @ nativeprogress.ccsend.com
Date: Di., 15. Apr. 2025
Subject: We're Close, So Close ...
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Empowering the Lakota People
We're SO Close to Finishing the Buffalo House
One thing that we have found in working with the Lakota people of Pine Ridge Reservation is that they don't want a handout. They want a hand up–help in becoming self–sufficient. That's why we were excited when we broke ground around 10 years ago on the Charging Buffalo Meat House. This project was going to restore a piece of Lakota heritage while providing jobs, employment, industry, and food security.
It was, and is, one of our greatest hopes to see it flourish. The only real step left is to get the facility USDA certified so that it can market meat products to all who wish to buy.
But there's one, last, crucial phase of work that has to be done in order for it to get USDA certified. That final phase of construction is going to cost about $200,000.
$200,000 is a daunting sum, to be sure, but we were fortunate. A family reached out to us and offered a $100,000 donation in the form of a bequest. According to a letter from the family, the donor was "moved by the plight of Native Americans, and wanted to help a Native American community especially in need with a $100,000 bequest after her death."
We're honored and touched to be chosen.
We're also hopeful now that we can get the remaining $100,000. In fact, if everyone reading this gave even a small amount of money, we could reach our goal immediately.
We're close, so very close, to bringing this project to completion, to bringing back the buffalo, and to bringing a renewed sense of independence and self–sufficiency to the Lakota people.
For 20 years, you, our donors and supporters, have stood with us and with the Lakota people. Now we stand on the edge of finishing a project that has been 10 years and more than a million dollars in the making. Please donate today and help us reach our goal of $200,000—a goal that we're already halfway toward!
As always, thank you for your continued support.
Wopila tanka!
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One Spirit | PO Box 3209 | Rapid City, SD 57709 US
Von: LaRenda Morgan via Lakota Law info@lakotalaw.org
Date: Mi., 5. März 2025
Subject: DOGE cuts hit Indian Country
To: Evelin Cervenkova lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Lakota Law
Dear Evelin,
Páháveéšeeva – Good day and warm greetings from Oklahoma, home to more than 35 sovereign tribal nations. By way of introduction, I'm the Director of Government Affairs for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, where I'm enrolled – and I'm also an organizer who helped lead the charge to pass Ida's Law in Oklahoma. This landmark legislation directed the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to work with the U.S. Department of Justice to secure federal funding to create a local Office of Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP).
But today, I write to talk to you about another important issue. The programmatic cuts and executive orders coming from Washington, D.C. have confused many of us, and tribal leaders and communities across Indian Country are very concerned. Throughout our state, many people hold dual citizenship as both U.S. citizens and citizens of their tribal nation. Oklahoma is very different from many other states across the nation, because the resources, jobs, and opportunities provided by tribal nations to tribal and non-tribal citizens alike deliver necessary services and programs to so many communities.
Read about my work to combat the MMIP epidemic. Photo from Bryan Terry in The Okalahoman.
The administration has now mistakenly classified tribes as "DEI" beneficiaries rather than the sovereign tribal nations we are, an affront to many tribal leaders across Turtle Island. The expansion of the U.S. would never have been possible without treaties with tribal nations, which also helped legitimize our claims as independent nations in the world. But even prior to the U.S. being recognized as a country dependent upon conquest and imperialism, European nations had already signed treaties with Native tribes.
Tribal leaders, no matter which party is leading the administration, continuously have to fight to get congressional representatives and the White House to recognize that the U.S. has a legal obligation to federally recognized tribes. Regardless of whether a given tribe is founded by treaty or an act of Congress, its leaders have to remind each new House of Representatives, Senate, and administration to fulfill treaty and trust obligations that are backed by statute and the U.S. Constitution. Some in Washington get our plight, but most don't.
Maybe we need new legislation to require every newly elected U.S. official to participate in a training about treaties, statutes, federal Indian law, and the history between our governments. These statutes and treaties are the original laws of the land. If they are ignored, is the law not being broken? Ignorance of the law is never an allowable excuse in court as a defense, so why is our government continuously given a pass when it violates treaty law?
I believe we must continue to educate, and your support for us during this time is appreciated. It's clear that the American people %ndash; elected representatives, especially – need increased understanding when it comes to relations with Indian tribes. Our political status as citizens of federally recognized tribes is related to age–old agreements between sovereigns around the exchange of land.
As a Lakota Law supporter, I know you recognize the importance of this understanding. The positive news around the current state of affairs is that we receive status reports and messages of solidarity from all over the world, every day. I want you to know that your recognition and allyship are important to us. Know that each day, our organizing is bringing leaders and tribal nations together, and your support for this movement cultivates many key relationships that empower Indian Country.
Ni'eish – Thank you for being a champion for Native nations.
LaRenda Morgan,
Government Affairs Officer
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
Via the Lakota People's Law Project
Lakota People's Law Project
P.O. Box 27
Santa Fe, NM 87504
United States
The Lakota People's Law Project is a part of the 501(c)(3) Sacred Defense Fund, a Native–led Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice nonprofit (Federal Tax ID #99–2707481). Your contributions are deductible for tax purposes as allowed by law.
Von: One Spirit jbaker @ nativeprogress.ccsend.com
Date: Fr., 21. Feb. 2025
Subject: Fighting the Cold on Pine Ridge
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Empowering the Lakota People
In this edition of the One Spirit newsletter, we have updates on two core parts of our mission–supporting and empowering the Lakota people. There's a brief history of our firewood program, which helps keep people warm in an area where temperatures get life–threateningly low. We also have an update on the Lakota YouthStay program, which affords incredible opportunities to Lakota youth to explore a different part of the country.
If you have any questions about One Spirit, or if you'd like to learn about a specific program, please feel free to respond to this email to let us know.
As always, thank you to our supporters and donors for making this crucial work possible!
Fighting the Deadly Cold with Donations and Firewood
As the cold winds whip across the South Dakota Plains this winter, causing temperatures to drop below zero, people on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation struggle to stay warm. Many residents depend mainly on wood–burning stoves to heat their homes. Many source their own wood supply from wherever they can find it, but others are unable to do that, because of advanced age, ill health, or lack of transportation and equipment.
It is hard for most of us to imagine losing a family member or close friend to the cold. But every year, it happens on Pine Ridge, in spite of everyone’s best efforts to prevent it. For the Lakota people on Pine Ridge Reservation, having an adequate wood supply is a matter of life or death.
One Spirit recognized this need early on, and in 2013 stepped in to help the residents of Pine Ridge implement a wood program that would include providing people in need with wood for their homes in an emergency and train team members to inspect wood stoves to ensure they are in good enough repair to be burning wood. The wood program supplies the tools and equipment that workers need to search out and gather the hardwood that is best for home heating. Throughout the year, wood program team members make an effort to maintain their own supply of available wood, to ensure as quick a response as possible when requests come in.
A team member told us recently that emergency requests for wood sometimes come in directly from the people who need it, if they happen to know a wood program team member, or they from tribal officials who have gotten an emergency phone call about the situation. Either way, a call sets the wheels in motion to make sure wood is provided to people who need it as quickly as possible.
However, delivering a truckload of wood to one home can be a daylong effort for one person. Wood is delivered by the load using a pickup truck, which takes about a half hour to load and another to unload. But travel time on the Rez is usually significant, due to the distance between communities on the sparsely populated Reservation.
After the delivery, each team member inspects the wood stove at the residence, takes photos of it, and if necessary, takes appropriate action to make sure the stove is safe for burning wood, ensuring safe operations and reducing the risk of house fires.
The wood program volunteers' hard work, dedication, and care save lives and make a difference to those facing the harsh Midwest winters on Pine Ridge Reservation. And it is made possible by donations from our generous supporters.
Temperatures on Pine Ridge have fallen to as low as –21°F. Please consider making a donation today to help us keep the wood program running strong.
Lakota YouthStay Unlocks Opportunities for Youth
Lakota YouthStay is a wonderful program that provides Lakota youth with a unique opportunity to visit Medford, Massachusetts. The youth get to stay with a thoroughly vetted host family, explore the wonderful Boston area, spend time at the ocean, visit a college, and engage in fun new hobbies and activities all while sharing their # culture and making new friends. Lakotan youth ages 10–15 from Pine Ridge Reservation are eligible to apply.
This year, more than a dozen youth turned in applications! The Lakota YouthStay director and advisors will review completed application packets, personal statements, and letters of recommendation. They're looking for eight participants who will travel and engage with each other and the program well in order to create a cohesive group for this year's program.
In June, Lakota YouthStay Director Joy Harris will travel to the Pine Ridge reservation to meet with the eight youth and their family members for a group get-together. There will also be a fun day trip for the youth to Rapid City so everyone can get to know one another before heading to Boston. Always an exciting time!
Learn More about Lakota YouthStay
One Spirit | PO Box 3209 | Rapid City, SD 57709 US
Von: NDN Collective actions @ ndncollective.ccsend.com
Date: Mi., 19. Feb. 2025
Subject: Celebrating & Honoring Leonard | NDN LIVE in North Dakota
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Hello Evelin,
NDN is LIVE in North Dakota at the Welcome Home community event where we will celebrate and honor
Leonard's release and return to the Turtle Mountain community. Watch the live stream using the link
below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ve1WrKY6k
This multi–generational event is being hosted by NDN Collective at Sky Dancer Casino Event Center. Tune in to hear from speakers, listen to songs, receive live updates, and much more!
Drum circle at Leonard's Welcome Home event. Photos taken by Robert Bordeaux.
Relatives awaiting Leonard's arrival at Sky Dancer Casino Event Center, so-called North Dakota.
We want to thank you for your continued support and dedication. Leonard's freedom is a testament to how powerful and strong we are when we move together as one. "[Leonard Peltier's] struggle has become a struggle about the story and history of Indigenous people in this country, and how we have been treated by this colonial government. All of the organizing that has happened has lit a fire under all of us. It has given us hope again. Because so many of us have been told over and over that the release of Leonard Peltier and his justice and his freedom and his liberation is a day that our people are never going to see," said Nick Tilsen, Founder and CEO of NDN Collective.
We could not be more grateful to bear witness to Leonard's freedom; the culmination of 50 years of resistance, prayers, organizing, and advocacy.
We hope that all of Leonard's steadfast supporters are filled with peace and joy today, and that they know we understand and honor the depth of their commitment and work that made this day possible. There are many more fights ahead for the liberation of our peoples but today is a time to celebrate that together, we have achieved what others have said would be impossible.
RESOURCES:
VIDEO (2/18) | Relatives welcome Leonard Home
VIDEO (2/18) | Leonard Arrives in his Homelands
NDN PRESS RELEASE (2/18): Leonard Peltier Released From 49 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
NDN PRESS RELEASE (2/15): NDN Collective to Host Welcome Home Event For Leonard Peltier
Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ (All Are Related),
#FreeLeonardPeltier Campaign
NDN Collective
The #FreeLeonardPeltier Network by NDN Collective demands justice and freedom for Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Together with a broad coalition of organizations representing millions of supporters nationwide, we're asking President Biden to grant Leonard Peltier his freedom through Executive Clemency. Join us in the fight to free our relative by visiting freeleonard-peltier.com
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NDN Collective | 408 Knollwood Dr | Rapid City, SD 57701 US
Von: One Spirit jbaker @ nativeprogress.ccsend.com
Date: Mi., 22. Jan. 2025
Subject: People Are Burning Furniture to Stay Warm
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Help Us Keep the Lakota Warm
The polar vortex has hit the Pine Ridge Reservation, and it's bringing with it temperatures as low as –14°F and a wind chill of –26°F.
It's a bitter cold for an area where many homes still use wood stoves for heat. Some people on the reservation have run out of firewood and they are burning their clothes and furniture to keep warm. The Lakota people are trying desperately to shield their elders and their children from the bitter cold.
We have distribute firewood to the homes of people who can't afford it thanks to a generous grant by the Alliance for Green Heat, but we need money to buy more firewood, pay our crews, buy and maintain chainsaws, and deliver the firewood across the reservation. We also try to repair and replace stoves that need it as a poorly maintained or old stove can become a fire hazard.
Please consider making a donation to help keep people warm in this bitter cold.
Wopila Tanka!
Know a Lakota Youth Who Wants to Visit Boston?
Lakota YouthStay provides a unique opportunity for Lakota youth, ages 10–15, from the Pine Ridge Reservation to visit Medford, Massachusetts. Youth stay with a thoroughly vetted host family and spend 9 days exploring and discovering the wonderful and exciting Boston area. Activities may include visits to the New England Aquarium or Museum of Science, a tour of Tufts University, a day trip to the beach, a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, engagement in art/crafts/photography and sculpture workshops, and more. You will be able to share your culture and life with your hosts and new friends you will meet. The 2025 YouthStay program is planned for July 1st – 10th.
Lakota youth who are curious, adventurous and open to new experiences and making new friends are welcome to apply for consideration for this amazing experience. The application deadline is February 5th. The application is in multiple sections and takes some time to complete so time to get going on this TODAY!
For more information, contact Joy Harris at jharris@lakotayouthstay.org or (617) 852–2941.
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One Spirit | PO Box 3209 | Rapid City, SD 57709 US
Von: Tokata Iron Eyes, Lakota Law info @ lakotalaw.org
Date: Sa., 11. Jan. 2025
Subject: Video: Run turns trauma into wellness
To: Evelin Cervenkova lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Lakota Law
Dear Evelin,
Warm greetings to you from the sacred (and chilly) He Sapa (Black Hills)! I'm here to witness and celebrate many young, Native runners on route from Fort Robinson, Nebraska to Busby, Montana, where — in solidarity with our Northern Cheyenne relatives, and on behalf of Lakota Law, Sacred Defense Fund, and the Standing Rock and Oglala Tribal Nations — I'm bringing you along for this year's 29th Annual Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run.
I encourage you to watch my short video introduction to this important and deeply meaningful yearly event. It honors — with a 400-mile run over six days through subzero temperatures and some of the most beautiful, wild, and sacred territory in all of Turtle Island — Northern Cheyenne ancestors who broke free from captivity in Fort Robinson on January 9th, 1879. The run retraces their steps and allows their descendants to complete the journey they were unable to finish to their homelands nearly a century and a half ago.
I want to give recognition to the Two Bulls family and Yellow Bird Foundation for hosting this powerful event. The runners — mostly youth from many tribal nations — began with an orientation on Thursday before hitting the trail yesterday from Fort Robinson to Hot Springs, SD. After crossing though the He Sapa into Deadwood today, they'll have three remaining legs before reaching their final destination in Busby.
Our participation here — and yours, through your support — is important, not least because it raises more awareness (both within our communities and without) of how colonization and imprisonment in "frontier" forts impacted our Northern Cheyenne relatives. In some ways, being present for and supporting this run embodies what our work is all about. It gives us a real opportunity to acknowledge the painful past while alchemizing generational trauma through healthy activity to empower the next generation.
Wopila tanka — my gratitude for your solidarity with our youth and ancestors!
Tokata Iron Eyes
Spokesperson & Organizer
Lakota People's Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund
P.S. A second reminder: We remain deeply grateful to all of you who give of yourselves to make the ongoing work of Lakota People's Law Project possible under our new home at Sacred Defense Fund. For those of you who donate through checks, please send them to our new mailing address, listed below, and kindly make out your checks to: Sacred Defense Fund. Thank you so much!
Note our new mailing address (and please make any checks payable to: "Sacred Defense Fund")
Lakota People's Law Project
c/o Sacred Defense Fund
PO Box 27
Santa Fe, NM 87504
The Lakota People's Law Project is part of Sacred Defense Fund, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) law and policy center. All donations are tax–deductible.
Von: Darren Thompson, Lakota Law info @ lakotalaw.org
Date: Di., 7. Jan. 2025
Subject: Time for Biden to free Leonard Peltier
To: Evelin Cervenkova lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Lakota Law
Dear Evelin,
Happy New Year to you from all of us at Lakota Law! As we enter 2025, much is about to change, especially with a newly–elected president. Joe Biden has just two weeks left in the White House, and many say he leaves with a tremendous record for Indian Country – including historic investments from the federal government and the issuance of an official apology for the brutal history of federal Indian boarding schools.
Others believe that Biden's legacy on Native issues is tarnished by inaction regarding our longest–standing Indigenous political prisoner, Leonard Peltier. About a month ago, on Dec. 12, Biden issued 1,499 commutations – the largest number in modern U.S. history – but Leonard was not among them. One day later, 33 congresspeople, including seven senators, 26 House members and Patrick Leahy, a retired Vermont Senator who served with Biden for decades, sent a letter to the President asking him to commute Leonard's sentence.
Those of you who have followed our work for some time know we have worked in partnership with Leonard's legal team and gathered petitions to help right this wrong. Now, we are ready to deliver the will of the people directly to the president. As of this writing, we have just over 17,000 signatures on our petition – a strong number! That said, we hope to nearly double that by the end of this week. Please help us reach our goal of 30,000 signatures to put pressure on President Biden, and give him time to do the right thing by Leonard Peltier before leaving office.
Last week, I published a flash update with Unicorn Riot on the status of efforts to get Leonard, a treasured elder who helped jumpstart Indigenous activism with the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, out of prison. He's been incarcerated since 1977, nearly 50 years, based on a sham trial featuring falsified evidence.
Dozens of legal experts, world leaders, and human rights organizations – including the National Congress of American Indians, Amnesty International, the Dalai Lama, and even former prosecutors and judges on Peltier's case – have called for his release. Please join us in renewing this important call at this critical time!
It is our strong hope that Biden will listen to our voices and grant my fellow Anishinaabe and Lakota relative his long–sought freedom. Know, however, that we also continue to back a renewed legal effort. No matter what happens, we will report back soon with news or next steps. And, as always, I thank you for your attention and care for our people and communities.
Miigwech – my sincere gratitude for your ongoing advocacy and support!
Darren Thompson
Director of Media Relations
Lakota People's Law Project
Sacred Defense Fund
P.S. On another important note: We remain deeply grateful to all of you who give of yourselves to make the ongoing work of Lakota People's Law Project possible under our new home at Sacred Defense Fund. For those of you who donate through checks, please send them to our new mailing address, listed below, and kindly make out your checks to: Sacred Defense Fund. Thank you so much!
Note our new mailing address (and please make any checks payable to: "Sacred Defense Fund")
Lakota People's Law Project
c/o Sacred Defense Fund
PO Box 27
Santa Fe, NM 87504
Lakota People's Law Project
P.O. Box 27
Santa Fe, NM 87504
The Lakota People's Law Project is part of Sacred Defense Fund, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) law and policy center. All donations are tax–deductible.
Von: Judith LeBlanc Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund info @ nativeorganizing.org
Date: Fr., 27. Dez. 2024
Subject: Sign to stop Big Oil's lawsuit against Greenpeace
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Evelin,
We've been honored to partner with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the push to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and to protect voting rights in North Dakota. We were on the ground at the Standing Rock prayer camp in 2016, working with the Tribal government and traditional leadership of the Oceti Sakowin to help develop narrative and political strategies and provide resources to strengthen the movement opposing the pipeline.
But now Energy Transfer — the Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline — is trying to divide the powerful Water is Life movement that led this historic protest, claiming that Greenpeace organized the 2016-2017 Standing Rock resistance.
Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace and threatening our fundamental rights to protest and free speech to silence tribes and groups that speak out against the extractive fossil fuel corporations.
The trial begins in February 2025, and a win for Energy Transfer could ruin Greenpeace financially and set a dangerous precedent for all who challenge the corporate dominated system of land management and energy policy. We must stand against this intimidation and protect Mother Earth from reckless corporate greed. The open rule of, by and for corporations is the main challenge we will confront with the incoming Trump administration. We have to send the signal now: our ancestral responsibility for Mother Earth is stronger than ever.
The Lakota people have a saying: Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ, which means "we are all related." Indigenous cultures acknowledge the inherent relationship between all beings and the natural world, and with your support, we will continue building a multiracial network aligned with these values across Turtle Island.
Hawwih (thank you in Caddo),
Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Executive Director
Von: Warrior Women Project info @ warriorwomen.org
Date: Mi., 4. Dez. 2024
Subject: Listen Now the Power of Knowing Who We Are
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
We're excited to share a powerful new conversation with Marcella Gilbert on the UpEND Podcast.
Marcella, daughter of the iconic Madonna Thunder Hawk and niece of Russell Means, reflects on her life's journey—from growing up in the American Indian Movement to the transformative impact of survival schools.
Marcella's words remind us of the strength that comes with knowing who we are and where we come from. In her conversation, she shares:
"Everything I've done in my life–from college to activism–comes from the strength I was taught as a young person. Knowing who we are, where we come from, and why we belong here is a source of power no one can take from us."
This conversation is a powerful reflection on the ongoing fight for Indigenous sovereignty and justice, and the responsibility we all carry to honor and amplify the stories of our ancestors.
Listen now: UpEND Podcast Episode
While yesterday's Giving Tuesday reminded us of the incredible support we have, our work continues–preserving and sharing the powerful histories that shape our collective future. If Marcella's words move you, we invite you to consider supporting the Warrior Women Project's mission to continue this important work.
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The Warrior Women Project is fiscally sponsored by The Accomplis Collective, a social justice fund dedicated to moving resources equitably and courageously. Donations to the Warrior Women Project are tax&ndashdeductible through the Accomplis Collective's 501(c)(3) designation.
Warrior Women Project, 525 West Townview Circle, Mansfield Ohio, 44907, United States
Von: NDN Collective actions @ ndncollective.ccsend.com
Date: Di., 3. Dez. 2024
Subject: Enough is Enough: Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
PRESIDENT BIDEN, IT'S TIME TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
Evelin
Yesterday, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, and the President likely took this action without a recommendation from the Department of Justice (DOJ). This demonstrates LOUD AND CLEAR that President Biden has the power and authority to take SWIFT ACTION to ensure justice where other processes have FAILED.
President Biden's words in his son's pardon are part of the message to free Leonard Peltier for generations. Leonard Peltier's continued imprisonment is a horrific act of injustice. Hunter Biden's prosecution was politically motivated, and so was Leonard Peltier's; the difference is that Peltier has suffered in prison for nearly 50 years.
"There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough." – President Biden
We demand Executive clemency now! Join us in the call to #FreeLeonardPeltier by:
Leonard's imprisonment in a maximum security facility has been an effort to "break" him. This represents the way this justice system continues to try to "break" the spirit of Indigenous resistance for sovereignty, self–determination, religious freedom, treaty rights, and the right to justice for Indigenous Peoples.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Miigwech (thank you),
Korina Barry,
Managing Director of NDN Action
NDN Collective
The #FreeLeonardPeltier Network by NDN Collective demands justice and freedom for Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 50 years. Together with a broad coalition of organizations representing millions of supporters nationwide, we're asking President Biden to grant Leonard Peltier his freedom through Executive Clemency. Join us in the fight to free our relative by visiting freeleonard-peltier.com
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NDN Collective | 408 Knollwood Dr | Rapid City, SD 57701 US
Von: One Spirit jbaker @ nativeprogress.ccsend.com
Date: Di., 29. Okt. 2024
Subject: Can You Give the Gift of a Holiday Meal?
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
Give a Holiday Meal to a Lakota Family
Friends,
The holidays are a time for togetherness and sharing, but for many Lakota families, the season sharpens the reality of inequality. Thanksgiving is celebrated at the end of the month, the time when government food allotments have been used up and long before the next allotment is issued. A meal for the entire family is a fantasy for many on Pine Ridge Reservation. They may not be able to afford a meal for the entire family for the holidays, but you have the power to change that.
One Spirit is trying to raise $50,000, to provide nourishing holiday meals to more than 500 Lakota families across the reservation. These meals will provide warmth and comfort to Lakota families of all sizes.
We have partnered with RF Buche and Buche Foods to provide wonderful, full holiday meals. Imagine a table filled with a roasted turkey, savory sides, and all the fixings—and enough to feed a family of 12. (Many Lakota families live in multigenerational homes, so 12 is an average number in these homes.) At a cost of $100 per family box, just $8.33 per person, we can provide these meals, but we need your support to do it.
This holiday season, let's share the spirit of giving with those who need it most. Your contribution will make a meaningful difference in the lives of families across Pine Ridge Reservation.
Wopila tanka!
One Spirit | PO Box 3209 | Rapid City, SD 57709 US
Von: NDN Collective actions @ ndncollective.ccsend.com
Date: Fr., 25. Okt. 2024
Subject: President Biden's Historic Apology Demands Action
To: lakotaoyateinfo @ googlemail.com
WE DEMAND ACTION, NOT JUST AN APOLOGY
Evelin,
U.S. President Joe Biden gave a speech today in the Gila River Indian Community and issued an official apology to all boarding school survivors and their families on behalf of the U.S. Government. Meaningful apologies require actionable steps toward accountability, healing, and repair. If a political party wants the "Native vote" they must earn it by taking meaningful steps to address both the legacy of colonial violence and ongoing injustices in all its forms everywhere. Watch President Biden's full statement here.
While Biden's apology is significant because it marks the first time the federal government has formally acknowledged its role in perpetuating violence and harm to generations of Indigenous children and families through abusive and deadly mandatory residential schools, the president's words ring hollow without action.
WE NEED YOUT HELP! SUPPORT OUR SIGN-–ON LETTER HERE
We are calling on boarding school survivors, Tribal leaders, Tribes, organizations, and individuals who believe that healing and solutions are possible. Sign on to our letter and let’s collectively demand that President Biden take these FIVE actionable steps toward accountability:
While these aren't the only solutions, we believe these are critical steps toward accountability and community healing due to the harm and violence inflicted on Indigenous peoples due to colonization, the boarding school era, and forced relocation.
We make these demands alongside and in honor of boarding school survivors, and in memory of the nearly 1,000 children who we know died at the schools as well as the thousands more unaccounted for that we will never forget.
We will hold the U.S. Government and all those responsible for this harm, accountable. We remain committed to ending the legacy and ongoing violence of Settler Colonialism everywhere, for the liberation and healing of all Peoples and Mother Earth.
Wopila (Thank you),
NDN Collective
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