No Keystone XL Blacksnake will Cross Lakota Lands

[Keith Millea]

No Keystone XL Blacksnake will Cross Lakota Lands

Posted by Margaret Campbell 15sc on February 03, 2014



PRESS RELEASE:


"Lakota are united with our relatives and allies up north. We must stop this kxl from entering the territory our ancestors loved, lived on for thousands of generations, and gave their greatest gift of all to defend, their lives. Our Creation stories teach us that this is our Home on Unci Maka, our homeland is part of our identity, we have our inherent birth right as Lakota Oyate. Our inherent birth right is a spiritual and human right, and we have treaty rights. We do not want kxl, we do not want tarsands in our lands, the tarsands must stay in the ground, the extraction and its aftermath is killing humans and all of life up there, and wasting precious water. The leaders of the world are looking at this, we need them to be good leaders and stand in the way of something bad coming toward us, all over the world, and here, in the big land, it is time for people to be clear to their leader. Now is a time when he can be a green revolutionary, and make decisions that can change the world.


Please take a moment to help get our words, thoughts, and prayers out to the world, all over Unci
Maka, that Lakota People, and many other Red Nations people, we have painted our faces. Our allies up north have painted their faces. For sacred water, for Unci Maka, for our generations. As people of the earth, our coming generations have a right to sacred water, no policy, no corporation, no politics should be more important than that. Regional water shortages are befalling people all over the world, people are being displaced, the four legged, the winged nations are becoming endangered and extinct because the system in place honors a huge profit over the health of Unci Maka, prioritizes an unsustainable energy policy that is and that will continue to lead us closer to what is perhaps the most dangerous point in our lifetime, wars over war. We are in a time of prophecy, our collective action will be significant, with all the love in our hearts, we must all resist this destruction, and stand for sacred water and Unci Maka." -Owe Aku.

http://www.oweakuinternational.org

[Keith Millea]

Oglala Sioux Tribe set to Ban Phil Fontaine

[URL="http://redpowermedia.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/819/"] 30 Thursday Jan 2014
[/URL]
Posted by Red Power Media in Red Power Media



JAN 29, 2014

Oglala Sioux Tribe set to Ban TransCanada

PINE RIDGE The Oglala Sioux Tribe's Health and Human Services committee has passed a resolution reasserting the tribe's opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline by passing a resolution barring TransCanada official Phil Fontaine from entering its territory.


Fontaine is a former Assembly of First Nations chief, who last December accepted a position with the TransCanada Corporation. TransCanada is the Calgary based energy company that is developing and operating energy infrastructure across North America. They are also the company responsible for the development of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.


The energy company has been under enormous scrutiny for its product, assumed environmental impact as well as the legal leeway it has been granted by American courts. In 2012 a Texas Judge ruled that TransCanada has the legal right of eminent domain and can acquire land from owners who refuse to sign an agreement to give the company a right-away on their property to the company. They have also been accused of reporting potentially resistant landowners in the U.S. to the Office of Homeland Security.


Fontaine's position with the company requires him to go to Indigenous Nations across America and explain the company's position on the KXL pipeline, however last week at an event at the University of Winnipeg he was met by significant protestors who refused to allow him to finish his speech.




Fontaine defended himself in a statement to the Canadian Press. He said, "Have I been satisfied with everything that I've learned? Absolutely not. Have I expressed those views with industry? Absolutely, (The protest) was not one of our shining moments as an aboriginal community."

The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been opposed to the pipeline and has made every effort to make their position clear. Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan Brewer told representatives of the U.S. State Department that if the pipeline makes its way towards Lakota Country that, "We are ready to fight the pipeline and our horses are ready."


The resolution passed in the Health and Human Services committee of the Oglala Sioux Tribe also said that they were greatly opposed to the pipeline by passing the resolution.


"We are taking a step that we don't want him here speaking to anybody. We want to ban him from even trying to promote the Keystone XL pipeline. Every committee and council person is opposed to this pipeline and we do not want him around here talking to our people," said Lydia Bear Killer, chairperson of the tribe's health and human services department. "A lot of people come to our reservation with information that isn't always accurate. They sell things real easy to our people and we need to protect our environment and or water for the future generations," Bear Killer said.


The council is expected to vote on the resolution at this week's council meeting.

[URL="http://www.indianz.com/News/2014/012376.asp"]
http://www.indianz.com/News/2014/012376.asp[/URL]