End the Cultural Genocide in South Dakota against Our Lakota People

[annm4peace]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/19/1239878/-End-the-Cultural-Genocide-in-South-Dakota-against-Our-Lakota-People?detail=facebook#

Hello my relatives. My name is Chase Iron Eyes. I am South Dakota counsel for the Lakota Peoples Law Project, the appointed Eyapaha (messenger) of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, board member of HonorTheTreaties.Org, and co-creator of LastRealIndians.com. I write to you today to introduce myself to the Kos community, to tell you of the important work we are doing in South Dakota on Indian Child Welfare and treaty issues, and to ask you to support us.
For far too long our people have been ignored by the United States. Many who are willing to learn of our struggles are kept in the dark by corporate-controlled media and other institutions. Genocide has survived in various forms after the Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and after the deliberate kidnapping, haircutting, beatings, sexual-physical abuse, rape, and other crimes against humanity that happened to our grandmothers and grandfathers at the hands of Christian Churches and the United States Government during the boarding school era. Our blood is all over America’s hands. Yet, we don't want to exploit White Guilt; we want modern humans to honor the Treaties and the Covenants that both Native and white American ancestors agreed to uphold before God.

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For a full briefing on the ongoing, de facto genocide against Indian people in South Dakota, visit the Lakota People’s Law Project website. But suffice it to say that the South Dakota DSS is removing Indian children from Indian parents in violation of federal and international law and placing them into White institutions and homes while Indian homes sit vacant. Every day two of our kids are taken and placed; 740+ every year are subjected to this fate. Further, the state is receiving $56 million per year (roughly 72k per kid) from the federal government to accomplish this. Some are reunited after years of battling with the state, some are kept track of, some are lost and placed in abusive homes like the home of Richard and Wendy Mette (please read our special report on this terrifying issue). What follows is a quick overview of facts and assertions based on research by the Lakota People’s Law Project.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, annm4peace.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. kick

[Coyotl]

3. K&R

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

4. Thank you, K&R

Many Blessings,,, for All Our Relations.

[ChaoticTrilby]

5. Kicked and rec'd.

Best wishes. May your voice be heard.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Kick and recommend

[DeSwiss]

7. K&R

[Enthusiast]

8. Kicked and recommended....nt

[ReRe]

9. K&R

but that I could rec and kick this a million times.

[yuiyoshida]

10. K&R

[Mnemosyne]

11. Never ends, does it? Despicable. nt

[truebluegreen]

12. K&R

[HappyMe]

13. k&r

When is shit like this going to end.

[whttevrr]

14. Why can't we honor our treaties?

[Precisely]

15. peace

[annm4peace]

16. I'm glad so many care

I lived most my life in central Ca. i moved to Minneapolis 12 years ago and have learned and continued to learn both of crimes committed by the government against the Lakota people and crimes that continue.

there is a book store in Minneapolis called May Day Books. it is a co-op run mostly by Vietnam Vets. They carry many books of social justice and progressive issues. They have many books of Native Americans by Native Americans.