by Winter Rabbit | 2/13/2008 11:37:00 AM

Custer's Pipeline & Genocide Denial

Genocide denial is part of the steel that drills the oil in "Custer's Pipeline," is part of what moves the pens making lying papers that are stealing and have stolen the promised sovereignty of American Indians, and what makes the modern day Custers feel joy when they succeed and rage when they fail.





Looks like the modern- day Custers are feeling a little joy lately.




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TransCanada has decided to go ahead with its application for approval of a jumbo 42" gas pipeline cut right through the middle of Lubicon land, without consultation and despite Lubicon objections. They have refused to answer even the most basic safety questions.
The Lubicon Nation needs help now! TransCanada is taking actions that not only open unceded Lubicon territory to even more ruthless and destructive "development", but enable the huge expansion of toxic tarsands operations and so affect all of us.




Make that quite a bit,


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To the question of: “When will all 89 mines be cleaned up?” The answer from MSE was: “Not in your lifetime.”



of joy.



A Canadian company has the legal right to condemn land for a crude-oil pipeline through the eastern part of the state (South Dakota in this case) -




I’ve been working on a slow burn about this, especially after I read that the 89 mines in the Black Hills will not be cleaned up “in your (our) lifetime(s).” Not only that, but that it looks like Bear Butte will be “almost entirely public land.” Even worse, it's now “out of our hands.”

(emphasis & underline mine)


Four of the committee members, Representatives Ahlers, Engels, Street, and Nygaard, are to be praised for their extreme patience in sitting in a meeting in which their colleagues exhibited such disrespect to their efforts to submit additional amendments to the Bill. Toward the end of the hearing, Rep. Ahlers finally asked the other committee members to accept only one-half mile from the top of the sacred mountain stating, “This is only a sign of respect” as the land would be almost entirely public land. The other nine loudly hollered, “No!” as they had done time and time again to previous offers of amendments. After shouting their loud, disrespectful “Nos,”… then they would laugh.



Of course, there was racism present during this, imagine that.


To conclude this entire topic, unless something is said other that it’s “out of our hands” in the future, I’ll just state the obvious and conclude with Fool’s Crow’s words once more.

Manifest Destiny is alive and flourishing, and even though I’ve written about this here, here, here, and included it in several other diaries; it just wasn’t enough to add to what was/is already out there to make the difference that was needed.

So, for the last time:


WE SHALL NEVER SELL OUR SACRED BLACK HILLS

Kola (friends). I am Frank Fools Crow, Chief of the Lakota and I am here today with Frank Kills Enemy, one of the most respected headmen and also an expert on Indian treaty rights. Before we begin, I would like to ask you why when we speak you do not listen, and when you listen, you do not hear, and when you hear us, you do not choose to understand what we say. This is one time that I ask you to listen carefully and understand what we have to say.

The people unanimously reaffirmed our long-standing position that the Black Hills are not for sale under any circumstances. We are therefore standing behind the resolution we passed at Ft. Yates in February of this year. That resolution, my friends, reads:
The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota people. Both the sacred pipe and the Black Hills go hand and hand in our religion. The Black Hills is our church, the place where we worship. The Black Hills is our burial grounds. The Bones of our grandfathers lie buried in those hills. How can you expect us to sell our church and our cemeteries for a few token whiteman dollars. We will never sell.



I’m sorry grandpa Fools Crow,




"We continue to believe that someone important someplace cares and will do something before our situation becomes impossible."

Fools Crow from "Fools Crow," by Thomas E. Mails. p. 217




I tried and contributed my best, but you taught us there are some things there aren’t cures for. I guess Manifest Destiny is one of them, but I’ll never stop hoping and praying about it.

Mitakuye Oyasin

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4 Comments:


Anonymous Anonymous on 2/13/2008 4:10 PM:

Senator Ted Stevens' role in all of this is disgusting. One of my favorite clips of him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmY1g9dAfx8

 

Blogger Winter Rabbit on 2/13/2008 4:52 PM:

Thanks for the video link!

 

Anonymous Anonymous on 2/15/2008 10:04 AM:

I've also begun to despair that there is any cure for "manifest destiny" = greed/empire. Even now, in the face of disaster after disaster caused by these things, it appears to me that all America wants is a new Reagan, be he black or be he a white haired old man. It's like we still think of Reagan as a teddy bear, rather than as a walking symbol of manifest destiny-empire-greed.

I'm beginning to think we'll be lucky to make it to 2012. My mantra is that if you compare the first decade of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century, it would have to fill your soul with dread, if you consider what the first decade of the 20th century led to...

 

Blogger Winter Rabbit on 2/15/2008 4:37 PM:

I wondered if he knew all that he was pulling his inspiration from. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.


Add that to 6 Degrees and I wonder if we’ll make it to 2012 myself.


We sure have enough legislation in place now to have our souls be filled with dread and those lessons don’t seem to have been learned. I just heard them discussing that on NPR the other day, that the lessons of the Holocaust are being forgotten. I'm going on pure memory there.

Darfur today, what tomorrow? More and more loss of our civil liberties – yeah, I’m with you workshop. I hope we find a way though, I just don't know what the answer is. It takes a whole hell of a lot to change...