Indigenous Nations in Solidarity with Standing Rock Water Protectors at Camp and Elsewhere Water Protectors in Standing Rock, North Dakota have sent out aCALL TO ACTION; (Click here for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Records of Official Letters of First Nation Tribal Support - this information is being compiled into this timeline of supporters (Please be patient while we fill in the list below. There are hundreds to be filled in. If you have videos of nations introducing themselves as you came into camp, or some similar solidarity video, please email [email protected] with "SOLIDARITY VIDEO" in the title)
(JANUARY PRIORITY:
Want to show solidarity and support the #NoDAPL camps?
GIVE BACK: "Hey family! Here is a list of Native-owned businesses who have either donated proceeds or merchandise to the #NoDAPL fight! Please friends and allies, lets show them some love and appreciation - Check out some of the websites and purchase an item! Its holiday season and I'm positive these businesses could really use your patronage! So lets give back! #BuyNative" (Go to the link, below, for list...) - Dallas Goldtooth https://www.facebook.com/dallasgoldtooth/posts/10106075314178493
AKIMEL O'ODHAM 8/19/16 Naelyn Pike, young teen, speaks eloquently of solidarity with Standing Rock, Chiricahua Apache struggles, corporations, and standing up for the earth for future generations; Karma Miles also, Akimel O'odham. Also, Baasi and Nizhoni Pike speak. - RIse up in solidarity with Standing Rock 8:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8ZAObt6kM #######
CHIPPEWA of the THAMES FIRST NATION 9//16 Canada Representative Speaks - George Henry Interview (Ontario, Canada) - Rocky Hall 3:54 SImilar situation there - trying to stop a pipeline over water source for 40 million people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5Z2YSbUbY
12/2/16 Cuba-Trained Doctors Travel to Standing Rock EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE 12/24/16 Olive Bias, Eastern Band of Cherokee - Front Line Water Protector - "The spirits are on our side, and the fact that prayers have been laid down here on the land that we're on for eons, which has helped people gather here in the first place, we have to be patient. We understand the difference of being goal-oriented and being focused. If you have focus, that means you’re in prayer and you're gonna be at the right place at the right time and you'll know how to act." - Photo by Terray Sylvester, Interview by Jenni Monet https://www.facebook.com/heartofstandingrock/photos/a.1898249183736435.1073741828.1897666263794727/1909371612624192/?type=3
HOOPA 9/12/16 Hoopa Tribe from California (pub. 9/13/16 ) - Rocky Hall 10:37 youth talks about the troubles at home and why they came to North Dakota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3Qc0lIT3U
INUPIAQ ESKIMO 10/15/16 On behalf of the Barrow Dancers from the Top of the World Barrow, Alaska, we send our support to our brothers and sisters in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe! #NoDAPL #StandingWithStandingRock- Mary Patkotak 0:57 https://www.facebook.com/maryvirginiasage/posts/10210585475334195
MHA NATION 9/30/16 "SEED THE FEED PROJECT" Chairman Mark N. Fox initiative - MHA NATION (Bismarck) Satellite Office volunteers and some staff traveled near Makoti, ND to harvest sweet corn for the Sacred Stone Camp - Photo gallery. www.facebook.com/mhasatellite.bismarck/posts/1210649402341534
NAVAJO 9/16/16/ Navajo Water Protector Discusses Social Media at Standing Rock - Navajo Times 5;58 Share the truth with clear intentions; don't share misinformation. This is a fight for all of humanity. We need to unite and understand that we are really hurting this Mother Earth, and if you could understand and really feel that love that we all have for this beautiful gift that we have been given, which is life... What kind of life are we leaving behind for the youth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_N2zVaFUs8 9/23/16 Kathy Begay's support trip 0:51 https://www.facebook.com/tawasi/videos/10210806174052484/ 11/3/16 - Shiye Bidziil and Ernesto's tattooing On Navaho Times 18:27 https://www.facebook.com/100008607349356/videos/1604986726464890/ 11/30/16 Navajo veterans leave for Standing Rock on Dec. 2nd, among 2100 Native American Vets to stand with Standing Rock . - BSNorrell http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/11/navajo-veterans-leave-for-standing-rock.html 12/17/16 Tropix Knight (and daughter), Navajo Tribe "I came here because I just couldn't bear the thought of innocent people, unarmed people, getting shot at, and I was trained and prepared to protect people. I was in the Marine Corps for 8 years. I've always stood up for people, and I continue to do so. No just our Navajos, other tribes, as well. I want to bury my heart at Standing Rock." - Photo & Interview by Toni Cervantes - Heart of Standing Rock https://www.facebook.com/heartofstandingrock/photos/a.1898249183736435.1073741828.1897666263794727/1905747339653286/?type=3
NORTHERN CHEYENNE 9/13/16 Flag over tipi in camp - Kaden Jeray https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1300458549999556&set=a.207462992632456.59574.100001062712631&type=3 9/9/16 "Today I reword my ancestors voice, so Dakota Access Pipeline.......I would rather die by your bullets then let you destroy my peoples future. On Sept. 9th 1878, 300 NorthernCheyenne fled from Darlington (Oklahoma) Agency for our North country homelands, one of the Chiefs stated "I'd rather die by your bullets then let my people die here." The Northern Cheyenne band took on 14,000 US Calvary Troops and made it home. Continuing to fight for our lands and way of life." 10/3/16 Yellow Bird's Northern Cheyenne's children stand with Standing Rock - RWC 1:12 https://www.facebook.com/YellowBirdPrograms/videos/1121815491220437/ 9/19/16 James Roundstone, Northern Cheyenne, and Damian Badboy speak about why they are in Standing Rock - John L. Wathen 4:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqmHdvj__bw
PREY LANG In Prey Lang forest, the story was familiar: "They are taking your natural resrouces in the name of development" Prey Lang is undergoing an onslaught of clear-cutting as rubber companies, plantations and other developments eat into the forest. - NIM https://www.facebook.com/N1Mnot1more/posts/658036877709480
ST. REGIS MOHAWK 9/1/16 Dakota Access Pipeline: Ron LaFrance 4:03 One of the Chiefs form St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. He talks about the serious effects of industry in his land. (Been there, done that.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQaMJk_8liQ
