"Going Extinct Is Genocide": Lakota Elders Tour to Raise Awareness About Struggle. Lakota elders, activists and non-indigenous supporters march through New York's Times Square to United Nations, April 9, 2013.
(Photo: Victoria Law) On Tuesday, April 9, Lakota elders, activists and nonindigenous supporters marched through the streets of Manhattan to the United Nations, where they attempted to present a petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Entitled the Official Lakota Oyate Complaint of Genocide Based on the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the petition listed the numerous injustices faced by the Lakota people. (Oyate is a Sioux word for "people" or "nation. ") At the UN, security officers informed them that they would not be able to enter the building and present the complaint to the Secretary General. Outside the UN, Charmaine White Face, a Lakota grandmother and great-grandmother, addressed the 60 people who had marched with her.
With Colonization Came the End to the Matriarchal Leadership Corruption Within. Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribe Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege. (Photo: Paul Lowry)Click here to support courageous reporting and commentary by making a tax-deductible contribution to Truthout!
Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent lawsuits assert. And, the suits claim, the federal government facilitated the alleged swindle by failing in its legal obligation to ensure the tribes got a fair deal. This is a story as old as America itself, given a new twist by fracking and the boom that technology has sparked in North Dakota oil country. Since the late 1800s, the U.S. government has appropriated much of the original tribal lands associated with the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota for railroads and white homesteaders.
A devastating blow was delivered when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri River in 1953, flooding more than 150,000 acres at the heart of the remaining reservation. "Mr. Peuples autochtones lors de Rio +20 (sous-titres français) Massacre des indien d'amerique. Raoni : le site officiel du grand chef Kayapo - Actualités. CANADA : des indiens Mohawk victimes de crimes rituels dans les années 60 ?
De 1920 a 1984 les églises du Canada ont tenues des écoles pour enfants indiens Mohawk. Pendant cette période, il y aurait eut 20 à 30% de mortalité par an. Un pur génocide qui jusqu’à ce jour n’a pas été reconnu. Pourtant, selon Kevin Annett, Secrétaire du Tribunal pénal international pour les crimes de l’Eglise et les États ( www.itccs.org ), le « Mohawk Institute » a été « mis en place par l’Eglise anglicane d’Angleterre en 1832 afin d’emprisonner et de détruire des générations d’enfants mohawks. Cette toute première indiennes École résidentielle au Canada a duré jusqu’en 1970, et, comme dans la plupart des écoles résidentielles, plus de la moitié des enfants emprisonnés ne revinrent jamais. Beaucoup d’entre eux sont enterrés tout autour de l’école. » Le Révérend Kevin Annett Etats a révélé que des instruments de torture rituelle ont été trouvés à l’Institut Mohawk maintenant fermé. Divers témoignages ici :