South Dakota Indian journalist gave voices to a people long ignored
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- South Dakota Indian journalist gave voices to a people long ignored
- American Indians rediscovering the long-revered buffalo
- Lakota Sioux Declare Sovereign Nation Status
South Dakota Indian journalist gave voices to a people long ignored
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 23, 2007
Giago’s one request was that it be printed on Fridays the edition favored on the “res” for its TV schedule. “Notes from Indian Country” in the Rapid City Journal was the first native voice in a South Dakota newspaper – this at a time 1979 when Indian news was the state’s biggest story. The 1973 Wounded Knee siege between U. marshals and the American Indian Movement had been followed by a Pine Ridge civil war. Two FBI agents and more than 60 Indians were slain in the next three years. Remarkably none of the state’s 11 daily newspapers or 145 weeklies covered the mayhem in any depth relying instead on the Associated Press or printing nothing at all… Meetings menus basketball scores election results – people stood in line and snatched papers from carriers’ hands just to read about – themselves! For once there was something about Indians in a newspaper beyond drunks and welfare and violence. But the first place they looked was the editorial page where every week Giago squeezed a bit more of his anger into a column soon syndicated by Knight Ridder. When he blamed the American Indian Movement for violence on the reservation the paper was firebombed and shot-gunned. He exposed redlining by banks and discrimination by stores columns that brought investigations and fines. He also criticized health care and tribal “economic development” scams. A 1990 column challenged Gov. George Mickelson to change Columbus Day to Native American Day and the South Dakota Legislature approved a unique holiday in the United States.
American Indians rediscovering the long-revered buffalo
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Dec 23, 2007
htm –>American Indians rediscovering the long-revered buffaloSunday December 23 2007By Karen Herzog Milwaukee Journal SentinelMUSCDA Wis. — A buffalo herd bunches up big and dark against the snow-covered prairie as members of the Ho-Chunk Nation in pickup trucks and tractors form a line behind the imposing beasts. The buffalo anxiously eye the men and the machines. But a spiritual connection explains why American Indian and buffalo have come face-to-face on this cold December day. While trucks and tractors have replaced horses for herding purposes history is coming full circle.
Lakota Sioux Declare Sovereign Nation Status
pEdNews – Dec 23, 2007
htmDecember 23 2007Lakota Sioux Declare Sovereign Nation Status By Kenneth Briggs“Lakota Sioux American Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status on Thursday December 20 2007 in Washington D. following Mondays withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal hand delivered to the Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1858 Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming. “This is an historic day for our Lakota people” declared Russell Means Itacan of Lakota… were all members of the 1973 takeover. Few Americans remember the siege at Wounded Knee in the 1970s but perhaps they should. Members of the American Indian Movement [AIM] occupied parts of Pine Ridge in protest of the brutal killing of two of their own the disgustingly mild prosecutions for those murders and the beating of the mother of one of those two when she attempted to seek justice from the U. The AIM were seeking their rights under U.
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