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Defenders of the Black Hills: Message from the Heart
March 22, 2015
An interview with Charmaine White Face - Defenders of the Black Hills at
the Black Hills Learning Center meeting of the North American Indigenous
Peoples Caucus [Rapid City, South Dakota]
At the Summit of Teotihuacan, the obsidian stone point of
the arrowhead appeared in our hands, the direction of flight for the Arrow of
Destiny was given by the Elders, and with the strength of our Youth the Bow of
Nations was drawn. The battle for Hope was won, but along the way we came to
realize the extent of the challenges ahead, both internal and external to our
families, communities, Nations, Pueblos, and indigenous organizations. This is
good. We must know where we are at in order to get to where we must be. We must
be honest within ourselves and with each other, to better construct a
collective strategy for communication and organization that will strengthen the
process of REGENERATION of our Indigenous Peoples, and in the process prepare
the way for the regeneration of humanity and TONANTZIN, our Sacred Mother Earth, as
well.
Star Turtle's Island
"In fulfillment
of our shared mandate of responsibilities to the Future Generations and taking DIRECT ACTION to realize the DECOLONIZATION of MOTHER EARTH,
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Link:
United Nations Economic and Social Council
COMMISSION ON
HUMAN RIGHTS
Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities
Although Dr. Miguel Alfonso Martinez completed a UN Treaty
Study in 1999, the Treaties themselves (such as the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty) are
still not acknowledged or recognized within the UN system as integral to the
body of International Law that sets the parameters of all international
relations among the states and
Nations of Indigenous Peoples.
Just as in '73, unless this situation is corrected, there
will be no substantive change
in the policies of discrimination, colonization, and genocide which characterize the criminal history of the states in relation to
the Human Rights, Self Determination and Nationhood of the Original Nations of the Great
Turtle Island Abya Yala.
Tupak Huehuecoyotl
March 21, 2015 
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