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Forgiveness Ceremony At Standing Rock Casino

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On Monday, Native Americans conducted a forgiveness ceremony with U.S. veterans at the Standing Rock casino, giving the veterans an opportunity to atone for military actions conducted against Natives throughout history.

In celebration of Standing Rock protesters’ victory Sunday in halting construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, Leonard Crow Dog formally forgave Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO, Wesley Clark Sr.

Salon published Clark’s apology to the Natives, which read as follows:

Many of us, me particularly, are from the units that have hurt you over the many years. We came. We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke. We stole minerals from your sacred hills. We blasted the faces of our presidents onto your sacred mountain. When we took still more land and then we took your children and then we tried to make your language and we tried to eliminate your language that God gave you, and the Creator gave you. We didn’t respect you, we polluted your Earth, we’ve hurt you in so many ways but we’ve come to say that we are sorry. We are at your service and we beg for your forgiveness.

This was a historically symbolic gesture forgiving centuries of oppression against Natives and honoring their partnership in defending the land from the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Chief Leonard Crow Dog offered forgiveness and urged for world peace, responding that “we do not own the land, the land owns us.”

Natives Faith Spotted Eagle and Ivan Looking Horse also spoke at the ceremony. 

Original article and photo gallery can be found here. 

April 2017-Updated Standing Rock Donation List

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Below is our updated list of verified Standing Rock related charities.

1. Lakota Law Project
Attn: Daniel Sheehan
740 Front Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
info@lakotalaw.org


2. Indigengous Environmental Network 501c3
Attn: Tom Goldtooth
Bemidjii Main Office
PO Box 485
Bemidjii, MN 56619


3. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe 501c3
Attn: Benita Clarke
Tribal Chairman-Harold Frazier
CRST Wakpa Waste Donation
Acct# 117073
PO Box 590
Eagle Butte, South Dakota 57625

Women Rising Radio Interview

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I was honored to be a guest on the “Women Rising” radio show on March 8, 2017 – International Women’s Day.  It was a true blessing to be part of a panel of extraordinary females to speak on healing at Standing Rock.  

Women Rising Radio gathers eyewitness accounts of Standing Rock, from medical activists who worked in the medic healing unit during the heroic Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota standoff with Energy Transfer Partners, local law enforcement and hired security operatives.  You can listen to the full show here.  

How to Support Standing Rock

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How to support Standing Rock

Here are places to send money: checks Most are 501c3:

1.Florida School of Holistic Living-501c3
All money goes t o Standing Rock Medic/healer Unit for supplies sorely needed with the weather
1109 E Concord Street
Orlando, FL 32803

2.MedicHealer Council
c/o Michael Knudson
PO Box 3745
Bismark, ND 58503

3.Indigenous Environmental Network
Tom Goldtooth with his son, Dallas and Kandi Mosset – 501c3
Indigenous Environmental Network
Bemidjii Main Office
PO Box 485
Bedmidjii, MN 56619
218-751-4967

4.Fort Yates address:
c/o Kandi Mosset
IEN-IRMEDIA
PO Box 619
Fort Yates, ND 58538

5. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe – DAPL Fund
Bld#1 N Standing Rock Ave
PO Box D
Fort Yates, ND 58538

6. Lakota Law Project – Daniel Sheehan, Esq/Chase Iron Eyes, Esq
lakotalaw.org
740 Front Street #265
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
info@lakotalaw.org

7. Mr. Harold Frazier
Tribal Chairman
Cheyenne River Reservation
PO Box 590
Eagle Butte, SD 57625

8. John Bolenbaugh
johnbolenbaugh@yahoo.com
296-580-5393
Citizen whistleblower from tar sands clean up. Director or the film Because Humanity Demands Clean Water. 
Helppa.org – and dapllies.com 

STOP DAPL Rally & March

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Stand with Standing Rock and join us in targeting multiple Green Snakes (banks) that fund the Black Snake (pipeline).

This peaceful, family-friendly demonstration will involve a march through downtown Palo Alto of about 1.2 miles. Wear comfortable walking shoes, bring NoDAPL signs and banners and be ready to take group pictures in front of multiple banks that fund DAPL to the tune of over $2.6 billion.

Palo Alto City Hall Sat. Feb. 11, 2017 Noon – 2 PM

March to banks funding DAPL Photo Op to Social Media

Action Network Event Link: https://goo.gl/cm7b4N

New Year’s Eve Prayer for Standing Rock

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Forgiveness Ceremony at Standing Rock brings together Native Americans and Veterans

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FORT YATES, N.D. — Native Americans conducted a forgiveness ceremony with U.S. veterans at the Four Prairie Knights Casino & Resort on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on Dec. 5, 2016 in Fort Yates, North Dakota. A group of veterans present asked for forgiveness from Tribal representatives for military actions conducted against Natives throughout history. The emotional ceremony was held in celebration of Standing Rock protesters’ victory Sunday in halting construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

View original photo gallery here.

Sing for the Waters – A Benefit for Standing Rock

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Standing Rock: Critical Injuries After Police Attack with Water Cannons, Rubber Bullets in Freezing Temps

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Standing Rock: Critical Injuries After Police Attack with Water Cannons, Rubber Bullets in Freezing Temps

Monday, November 20, 2016 3:00pm
Prepared by Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council at the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Camps

The Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council responded to a mass casualty incident that began at 6pm yesterday evening. Approximately 300 injuries were identified, triaged, assessed and treated by our physicians, nurses, paramedics and integrative healers working in collaboration with local emergency response. These 300 injuries were the direct result of excessive force by police over the course of 10 hours. At least 26 seriously injured people had to be evacuated by ambulance to 3 area hospitals.

Police continuously assaulted demonstrators with up to three water cannons for the first 7 hours of this incident in subfreezing temperatures dipping to 22F (C) causing hypothermia in the majority of patients treated. Chemical weapons in the form of pepper spray and tear gas were also used extensively, requiring chemical decontamination for nearly all patients treated and severe reactions in many. Projectiles in the form of tear gas canisters, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades led to numerous blunt force traumas including head wounds, lacerations, serious orthopedic injuries, eye trauma, and internal bleeding.

Every emergency medical unit from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation responded to the incident and additional ambulances were sent from Cheyenne River Sioux tribe (South Dakota), Kidder County, and Morton County. 3 seriously injured patients were transported directly by ambulance from the scene and another 23 patients were transported by ambulance after initial assessment and treatment in camp. Injuries from the mass casualty incident include:

         • An elder who lost consciousness and was revived on scene
         • A young man with a grand mal seizure
         • A woman shot in the face by a rubber bullet with subsequent eye injury and compromised       vision
         • A young man with internal bleeding who was vomiting blood after a rubber bullet injury to his abdomen
         • A man shot in the back near his spine by a rubber bullet causing blunt force trauma and  a severe head laceration
        • Multiple fractures secondary to projectiles fired by police


The Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council condemns the excessive police violence and calls upon law enforcement to cease and desist these nearly lethal actions. Specifically, we demand the cessation of water cannons in subfreezing temperatures.

Our volunteers performed well under challenging circumstances last night, but we would not have been able to do this without the help of water protectors and local community members who transported patients to our clinic, organized warming spaces, and provided food and tea. We specifically want to thank the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe EMS services for their excellent response and highest quality care in an unprecedented situation. “They were phenomenal. They recognized the severity of what we were dealing with, it could have been a lot worse” said Jazmine, a volunteer physician from the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council.

Water is Life, Mni Wiconi
Signed,

Linda Black Elk, PhD, Ethnobotanist, Sitting Bull College
Michael Knudsen, MPH candidate, Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council
Noah Morris, EMT
Amelia Massucco, RN
John Andrews, RN
Kristina Golden, EMT, herbalist
Sebastian Rodriguez, RN
Rosemary Fister, RN, MNPHN, DNP Candidate
Rupa Marya, MD, DoNoHarm Coalition, University of California – San Francisco
David Kingfisher, MD, JD, Wichita State University
Jesse Lopez, MD, Heartland Surgical Care
Kalama O Ka Aina Niheu, MD, Aha Aloha Aina
Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH, University of Illinois – Chicago
Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Friedman, MD
Vanessa Bolin, ALS Paramedic

Contact: Michael Knudsen, Medic Coordinator and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe ethno-botanist Linda Black Elk, PhD – medichealercouncil@gmail.com

Slow Food USA Supports Standing Rock

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A Recent Message from our Friends at Slow Food USA:

At Terra Madre Salone del Gusto in September, activist Winona LaDuke asked our national gathering to “put yourself on the front lines.” As the Dakota Access Pipeline protests heat up, her words ring true:

“In our teachings, we have a prophecy called ‘the time of the seventh fire.’ It says we the Anishinaabe people will have a choice between two paths. One is well worn, but it is scorched. The other path is not well worn, but it is green. The time to choose our path is now. It is the choice that is upon all of us. It is a choice between life and death, a choice between oil and water, a choice for our food and our future.”

Many of our Slow Food Turtle Island friends are at Standing Rock. Will you stand with them? We are a vast network that can make a difference. Read Winona’s full address, then call the White House and make your voice heard.

Any fight for land is a fight for good, clean, fair food for all.

In solidarity,
Richard McCarthy

Election Day and Standing Rock

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We recently received this email from Tracy B. Ann and wanted to share! This is how we can help with #NoDAPL on #ElectionDay!

Help Get Out The Vote for Standing Rock in North Dakota: “With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota. As outside oil interests, with the help of current government officials, try to steamroll a pipeline past citizens and the First People of North Dakota, it’s a chance for us to go into action. There are people running for office in North Dakota who would not have allowed this in the first place, would have stopped it in the second place and never would have let peaceful protesters be attacked in the third place.”

With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota.As outside oil interests, with the help of current government officials, try to steamroll a pipeline past citizens and the First People of North Dakota, it’s a chance for us to go into action.There are people running for office in North Dakota who would not have allowed this in the first place, would have stopped it in the second place and never would have let peaceful protesters be attacked in the third place.

We can start by sharing this on our Facebook and asking them to share as well!

The simple math of “6 degrees of separation” says we will reach a whole bunch of voters in ND with this list of candidates who can, and will, do something about this and future pipelines.

Chase Iron Eyes running for At Large Congress. He was born and lives on Standing Rock Reservation. The top contributors to his opponent, Kevin Cramer’s campaign are: Oasis Petroleum, MBI Energy Services, Armstrong Corp, Western CO of Texas, Cody Oil & Gas. Let’s help Chase Iron Eyes level the playing field.Marvin Nelson running for Governor of ND. He has an insiders knowledge of the oil industry because of the work he does as an agricultural consultant. He supports all the Native American candidates running in ND and they support him as well.Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun — running for North Dakota Public Service Commission — they issue permits for PIPELINES, among other things.Ruth Buffalo — running for North Dakota Insurance Commissioner

Standing Rock – Support from Jewish Community

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We received this letter from the Jewish Community yesterday in regards to North Standing Rock and wanted to share: 

We are asking you to join 17 Rabbis — leaders from every stream of American Jewish life — in signing the following statement, calling for an end to the building of the Dakota Access Pipe Line and supporting the Lakota Nation and other Native Nations in their opposition to it.

The two of us are adding our own urgency because even in the few days since the statement was drafted, the situation at Standing Rock in North Dakota has become one of life and death. 

The police appear to be on the verge of clearing the Water-Protectors camp that is on the pipeline route. 

It would be a sad and horrifying continuation of one of the worst strands of American history, if in this Native-led effort to protect Native lands, the Missouri River, and our Mother Earth, a Native person were to be killed. We need to do what we can to prevent that.

This is not only about American history, American values, and the American future. Torah teaches us both to protect the Earth and to nurture the “outsiders” among us.

The Native Nations are taking prayerful nonviolent action to protect the water for all of us. The knowledge that Mini Wa’coni — Water is Life — is the guiding principle of all their actions. During the week that one of us (Rabbi Liebling) spent there, every meeting, every action began with prayer. Until 1978 it was illegal for Native peoples to practice their religion — part of the cultural genocide that was and is inflicted on them — so even the act of public prayer is reclaiming their way of life. As Rabbis, we remember the days when the Jewish community was dealt with in these ways – and we utterly reject this behavior by American governments and corporations.

Racism is the original sin of America, and the Native Nations were the first victims. To redeem our nation from racism, we must begin with the First Nations. From the bottom of our hearts we ask you to sign this statement. And we ask you to share this letter and statement with your colleagues, inviting them to sign as well.

You can sign by clicking here.

Peace and Blessings,
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
and 
Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Standing Rock- Support from the Muslim Community

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In this time of great despair, and purpose in Standing Rock to save not only Our People, Our Grandmother Earth, Our Water for the Next 7 generations, all faiths are coming together to unite the world in peace, solidarity and prayer.

We are one family…all races.. One Humanity….only the government, corporations and greed have no idea.. Let’s all stand together. This was sent by my brother, Professor A.L.I., a devout Muslim. We love you, bro. #NoDAPL#WeStandInSolidarty #StandingRock 

Standing Alone on Standing Rock? By Professor A.L.I.

Redirect the pipeline towards holy land; a pilgrimage towards pollution. 

Irrigation upon faces, standing firm upon Rock; Facing the East in prayer, no ablution.

And ignorance loaded in gun chambers, wielded by ignorants are deemed solutions.

Hear the thunder, as the buffalo pound their fists into the earth causing your confusion.

Our clarity, is the eye of the storm, why not redirect the filthy pipe towards lily white fields?

Is it because White Privilege is your sacred cow; the golden bull before which you kneel?

So your holiness is to be protected, while ours demolished, while it’s hidden from view.

Indeed Plymouth Rock landed on us, now Standing Rock now lands upon you.

What will you do?