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Posting History for First People Power

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Indian Boarding Schools: Cultural Assimilation and Destruction
What happened inside of the walls of the Indian Boarding School that was to the right here?  Let’s look to history for some feasible answers. (all bold mine) RICHARD PRATT -- "KILL THE INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN" The Social Welfare Forum:...
Winter Rabbit 02/08/2017 10 14 - -
Big Mountain Navajo Elders Have Sheep Impounded Even Though Peabody Coal Mine Closed
   What might be “the largest forced removal of rural Americans since that of Japanese Americans during the Second World War?” It never is a good time to try to tell people about these issues; however, I had occasion this summer to meet a couple Navajo...
Winter Rabbit 09/21/2017 7 31 - -
Andrew Jackson Didn’t Sign "Indian Immigration" Act I Told Okla. Admin. Rules Committee Chair
  That’s what I told the Oklahoma Administrative Rules Committee Chair as to why funding is needed for teaching Native American history this morning. I elaborate on events surrounding that occurrence in Okla Legislature "beholden to powerful lobbies" -...
Winter Rabbit 04/12/2018 10 21 - -
It's Legal to Rape Native American Women in America
   Rape. Murder. Injustice. Those evils created the necessity for the American Indian Movement, as in the case of "the serial killings of American Indian women in Minneapolis” in 1987. 1987 AIM PATROL: Minneapolis AIM Patrol comes full circle in...
Winter Rabbit 09/23/2018 24 44 - -
Massacre for Which Thanksgiving Is Named
The timeline along with basic knowledge of the Pilgrims’ and Puritans’ religious beliefs exposes the fact that historically speaking, Thanksgiving was literally about gratitude for genocide. Furthermore, low population counts of the Pequot in more...
Winter Rabbit 11/19/2018 18 30 - -
New Okla. Governor Says Bull Stitt to Separation of Church & State
Stitt thinks he's on a mission from God....  ffrf.org/... Multiple concerned Oklahomans alerted the Freedom From Religion Foundation that the day after his inauguration, Stitt and his wife attended an Inaugural prayer service at the First...
Winter Rabbit 01/27/2019 91 70 - -
Why Rescind Wounded Knee Medals of Dishonor, When Jackson Can Honor Those Soldiers as "Heroic?"
   Why rescind “the Congressional Medal of Honor for the slaughter of defenseless Indians at Wounded Knee” when condoning genocide works so well? Source RAPID CITY – A gentleman named John L. Jackson has plans to open a Medal of Honor...
Winter Rabbit 05/25/2019 30 17 - -
Learning to Stand at Standing Rock, A work in progress
TO STANDING ROCK A NURSE FROM STANDING ROCK A PROTECTOR              Personal reflections from 6 days at Oceti Sakowin Camp Disclaimer: I can only write based on my own personal and historical perspective. Nothing can adequately prepare us for...
wmdrpa 11/19/2016 20 28 - -
Learning To Stand At Standing Rock: A work in progress, part 2
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN OUR HISTORY             AND RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY IS PRESENT “You can’t come home until you know where you belong”                Nicole Baltrushes, from the album Another Home Part 1 A week has passed since...
wmdrpa 11/23/2016 10 16 - -
"Knowledge Without Action Is Inert", Day of Mourning Toast
My cousin invited us to dinner tonight. He usually makes the Thanksgiving toast, but he asked me to do the honor, knowing how much trouble I was having with the idea, this year in particular. He challenged me to keep it under 30 seconds, so I wrote it...
wmdrpa 11/24/2016 8 5 - -
Standing Rock Chair Archambault Rejects the Army Corps' Termination Policy
Anyone who held out hope that the Army Corps would come down on the right side of this historic struggle, had those hopes dashed today when they announced that all camps north of the Cannonball River (Red Warrior and the largest camp, Oceti Sakowin)...
wmdrpa 11/25/2016 10 26 - -
First Native American Congresswoman?
Let’s hope so and maybe we can do all we can to get Denise Juneau elected as the Representative from Montana to the US Congress. She’s already the first American Indian woman in the country to serve i
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 18 41 - -
Native American Candidates, Party Chairs, and Organizations, support 90for90.
Four Directions is an organization that "advances equality at the ballot box all across Indian Country”. You can read more about them here and you can donate to them here. New Mexico - Chairwoman Debra Haaland New Mexico Democratic Party Chair and...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 9 35 - -
Breaking News! Good News! Good news for Pine Ridge Reservation and South Dakota! Henry Red Cloud!
Just a quick hit piece because I wanted to share the news. Just saw on the 90for90 Facebook page that Henry Red Cloud has signed on as a supporter of 90for90. He’s running for SD Public Utilities Commission.
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 119 187 - -
31st Anniversary Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, SD
Start: August 4, 2016 , 12:00 am End: August 7, 2016 OGLALA NATION POWWOW & RODEO: Pine Ridge, ...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 11 21 - -
Oglala National Annual Powwow, Henry Red Cloud, Jay Williams, Paula Hawks at Pine Ridge.
It was certainly a grand weekend for Henry Red Cloud. He was host on Saturday night to State Representative Paula Hawks and U.S. Senate Candidate Jay Williams at the Oglala Nation Annual Powwow. On Sunday, Henry and Jay participated in a Grand...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 10 27 - -
Blocking North Dakota Native American vote unsuccessful. Can Hillary win in ND now?
Frankly, I didn’t even think it was possible. North Dakota is the only state I know of where you don’t have to register to vote. Can you believe that? You just walk in on the day of an election and cast your vote. This should really be a model for all...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 7 21 - -
Pipelines, Pipe bombs and Protests. Standing Rock, ND. Help for Hillary?
cross posted from Down With Tyranny! On Saturday, security for the Dakota Access pipeline used mace and dogs to attack peaceful Native American protesters from Standing Rock Reservation. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is fighting on many fronts...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 17 13 - -
Update on Standing Rock. Native America vote may turnout in record numbers. Good news for Hillary!
Got this email late last night from Henry Red Clouds campaign manager, Richard Fox. Tracy, Late Sunday night... but here is the text from a Press Release going out soon.  I will add some extra ...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 13 29 - -
Henry Red Cloud - Winterizing the camps for protesters at Standing Rock.

Just got this from Henry Red Cloud’s campaign manager, Richard Fox. He always includes a nice little note to me.

I hope you are doing well this fine Wednesday night, Tracy.

ZenTrainer 10/01/2016 13 25 - -
IAN:10.10.16 ~ It's midnight, are you paying enough attention to Trump?
If you spent more than 10 minutes thinking, reading, writing or talking about Trump today it was too much. Stop it, stop it, for the love of God, please stop it! Ok, maybe that’s a bit harsh. There was a debate tonight, so I’ll give you 90 minutes...
ZenTrainer 10/09/2016 21 16 - -
Top 5 reasons for Native Americans to VOTE.
Reprinted in full with permission from the author, Cara Currie Hall, a supporter of 90for90. 1.  Your Vote is your Voice. Sounds cliché, but it’s true. If you want your views heard, you have to vote. Take a look at the groups who are having a say...
ZenTrainer 10/14/2016 18 26 - -
But, but, they are just leaving them to drown!
I have a theory about the Democratic Party and it’s philosophy of choosing candidates. I believe that they only choose the supposed “sure things” to throw their weight behind. They seem to ...
ZenTrainer 10/16/2016 31 37 - -
FANTASY CONGRESS - Kos, you could make a fortune on this.
Well, another fortune at any rate. So here’s the idea — not quite like Fantasy Baseball because my understanding is that runs on real life statistics. I’m thinking more of the game SIM CITY, which as an aside, I think every city planner every where...
ZenTrainer 10/31/2016 14 19 - -
Standing Rock can Rock the Vote!

With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota.

ZenTrainer 10/31/2016 8 18 - -
North Dakota has NO voter registration!?!?!
Now, before you get excited and go off to Pluto planning on how to get rid of voter registration in your state, let’s just check out the implications for North Dakota for a few minutes. We have a ...
ZenTrainer 11/01/2016 21 24 - -
Rock the Native American Vote in North Dakota.
ZenTrainer 10/31/2016 3 8 - -
Not only do I want to vote for Chase Iron Eyes for Congress, I now want to move to North Dakota.
cross posted from DOWNWITHTYRANNY! That’s how inspiring he is. I had the good fortune of talking to Chase Iron Eyes by phone one day late this summer. I started off just like when I’m talking with any other politician; half listening, moving about...
ZenTrainer 11/03/2016 5 12 - -
Help Get Out The Vote for Standing Rock in North Dakota .
With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota. As outside oil interests, with the help of current...
ZenTrainer 11/04/2016 6 19 - -
Rock the Indigenous Vote. Today in North Dakota.
ZenTrainer 11/03/2016 3 5 - -
Happy Birthday Dr. Reid! from DK Fans of 90 for 90.
Happy Birthday Dr. Reid!
ZenTrainer 03/18/2017 124 55 - -
Civil Rights comes to Monument Avenue - in your face KKK
I’m sure everyone remembers the racist riots in Charlottesville last fall and the pro confederate demonstration in Richmond. One of first things Elizabeth Guzman, the first Latina elected to the VA Assembly did when she was in office was to...
ZenTrainer 02/01/2018 51 60 - -
Happy 94th Birthday Dr. Reid! Updated!!
You can see from his bio that it’s Dr. Reid’s 94th birthday today. 90for90, the voter advocacy group, was started to honor him on his 90th birthday. The intent was to register 90 new voters in each precinct in Virginia. They didn’t actually meet...
ZenTrainer 03/18/2019 79 81 - -
RWB ~ Running while Black
reposted from DownWithTyranny! Isn’t easy. There is colour in politics —  green and white. Green is the colour of money and white is the colour of skin; the preferred skin colour of the recipients of the green. The people giving the money like to...
ZenTrainer 05/23/2019 60 60 - -