Wiping the Tears Seven Generations

Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank, Jr

Helping with the proof reading of this wonderful book before it becomes ready for sale. It is amazing. I am so grateful to have the blessing of helping with the proof reading of one of my hero’s. Uncle Billy!

A Legacy Project biography of Northwest Indian activist, Billy Frank, Jr.

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Marlon refuses the grammy

Raven visits with Antoinette Nora Claypoole 2-19-2012 4PM

Raven visits with Antoinette Nora Claypoole as they talk about her new book ” Ghost Rider Roads.”

In 1981, Antoinette Nora Claypoole moved from Pittsburgh, Pa. to the coast of Oregon. Born in Rochester, N.Y., as a young girl shetraveled the world. With her “army officer” parents. From Taiwan during the first wave of Americans living there in the late, 1950’s. To Sandia Base, New Mexico during Pres. Kennedy’s visit to her grade school. When she arrived as a “hippy chick”, in Oregon, she met the American Indian Movement (AIM), at a time “Indians were still being arrested in small towns”.

Working with/for Indians in AIM has informed Antoinette’s writing life and art. Her first book, Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae (1999, dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe, N.M.) chronicled American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash’s life, murder and legacy. The book was placed in “permanent collection” at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Antoinette’s poems and literary non-fiction can be found in various places: sandstone dwellings and random literary journals. Taos, New Mexico is a one of Antoinette’s special homebases, while Ashland, Oregon is her literary birthplace and has been her home since the town had dusty roads and horses riding through it.

The fellowship award from Oregon Literary Arts (Creative Non-Fiction) which Antoinette received for her upcoming work on reviving the lost works of Louise Bryant (1885-1936) reflects her ongoing commitment to unsilencing, truth. Wild Embers, her small renegade literary press, has a vow. To publish stories before they are lost. Or forgotten. Ghost Rider Roads: American Indian Movement 1971-2011 collected/by Antoinette Nora Claypoole released in Jan. 2012 is Embers recent tribute to reviving lost histories.

Antoinette Nora Claypoole
www.wildembers.com
from new book about old AIM
Ghost Rider Roads (release date Jan. 2012):

“This is a memory keeper book.

For all the reasons visionaries plant victory gardens and poets learn to hitchhike. This book emerges. A tapestry of landscape. Threads of a weave which began with the American Indian Movement (AIM) and extend into and beyond all humans pressing up against uncertainty.

Through the years defined here, via these writings, reading the entries here, the reader can feel what American Indian history of the second half of the 20th century looked like. And discover not only history, but reality, right now, which like a painted desert, sprawls through Indian Country.”

–Antoinette Nora Claypoole, from the Foreword to Ghost Rider Roads

Raven visits with Robert Satiacum about American Indian Lobby Day 2012 1-29-2012 5pm

Robert Satiacum is an enrolled member of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. He is the son of the late Chief Bob Satiacum – widely known for his sacrifices made for sovereignty and fishing rights. Satiacum is immersed his native culture, and diligently practices the traditions of the Sweat Lodge, Native American Church, and the annual Tribal Journeys in his family canoe.

Save the date!
We reserved the big room on the ground floor of the Legislative building and will make appointments for participants to meet with their legislators. Drumming in the Rotunda and on the steps of the Legislative Building are scheduled! Check back with us for details.

This Lobby Day is new, just going on it’s 2nd year, but especially important for tribal members of Washington State to solidify, and protect the rights our ancestors reserved for us, it is OUR Responsibility. We will come together at exactly the right time, with exactly the right people, doing exactly the right thing, in exactly the right place. There are Indian bills that need to be supported and testified to, and Indian bills that need to be extinguished and testified against. Our ‘Ancestors’ reserved the rights, our rights when they ceded the millions of acres full of the evergreens, and if we don’t get and be responsible, what little is left can be gone for mine, yours, and our children and our children’s children. They literally fought tooth and nail for what we have, and are observing us through the air, the water, the fire and the landscapes, waiting in anticipation for their descendants to pray, communicate, council once again together, for our sources and the future we will leave behind. We have the tools, our hearts, minds and voices, join us, this is the time! -Robert Ti Swaq Satiacum

http://www.puyalluptribalnews.com/
http://www.restorenativenames.org/
http://www.wherevent.com/detail/spirit-of-the-american-indian-lobby-day

Not only inviting you, I’m expecting you! Bring the children friends and family!

American Indian Lobby Day 2012 Agenda

Meet in Columbia Room 1st Floor – State Capitol

9:00am

Opening Prayer

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Discussing the Bills in the 2012 session that concern Indian Country
Why, and what is the importance of American Indian Lobby Day?
Learn why, how and the importance of registering to vote?
How to become Native Ambassadors to GOTV in Indian Country.

10:30 – 11:45

Feature Film Showing:

Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey
A comprehensive spiritual look at the annual international canoe journey, as the South Puget Sound (Whulge) prepares for the arrival of hundreds of canoes at host tribe: Squaxin Island Tribe of Indians

12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
Honoring State Representative John McCoy (Tulalip) D for re establishing the
Washington State Board of Geographic Names HB 1084
12:15 – 1:00pm

Drumming and sharing songs in Rotunda
Xa’Xa’ Q’uo Family/Sacred Water Canoe Family Host Drummers

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Meal Time in the Columbia Room / Meal Prayer
Speakers:
Christopher Winters of Native P.A.T. & Kevin Cummings of Council – Fire

2:00 pm -4:00 pm

Drumming/ Singing/Honoring, on the North Steps of the Capital Building

Open Floor (sharing your thoughts)

4:00 pm
Closing Prayer/Song
Begin work on American Indian Lobby Day 2013

Adjourned
(redbone post)

Raven visits with Grandmother Margaret Behan 1-29-2012 4pm

Description

If we want to see changes first of all we need to be in peace inside ourselves, and then we need to be patient with the ones that have not yet arrived in that place of peace.

Arapahoe-Cheyenne #003300, fourth generation of the Sand Creek Massacre. As a child, Margaret attended the Catholic Mission and Government Boarding Schools. Margaret is a Cheyenne traditional dancer. She has served as a dance leader in Oklahoma and in powwows across the U.S. A sculptress for 30 years, she creates clay figurines that have won her many honors, including shows at Eastern New Mexico University, University of Wisconsin, Santa Fe Indian Market and the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial.

Margaret is an accomplished and published author, poet and playwright. She has presented workshops and retreats for women, adult children of alcoholics and co-dependents. Margaret is currently taking an active role a leader of her tribe as a teacher of Cheyenne Culture and the President of the Cheyenne Elders Council

http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/about-us/grandmother-bios

Raven vists with Clayton Thomas-Muller on Defending Mother Earth 1-22-2012 at 4pm

Clayton Thomas-Muller Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign – Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. With his roots in the inner city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Clayton began his work as a community organizer, working with Aboriginal youth. Over the years Clayton work has taken him to five continents across our Mother Earth. Based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive movement for Energy and Climate Justice. He serves on the board of the Collective Heritage Institute (CHI), which hosts the annual Bioneers Conference in Marin, California and on the board of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Recognized by Utne Magazine as one of the top 30 under 30 activists in the United States and as a limate Hero2009 by Yes Magazine, Clayton is the tar sands campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots indigenous communities to defend against the sprawling infrastructure that includes pipelines, refineries and extraction associated with the tar sands, the largest and most destructive industrial development in the history of mankind.

Ottawa, Ontario Canadian Office:
Tel: 613 237 1717 ext. 106
Email: ienoil@igc.org
Twitter: @claytonIEN
Skype: monsterredlight

http://www.ienearth.org/index.html

Photo from:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/councilofcanadians/517011053

Raven visits with Leonard Little Finger 1-15-2012 from 4-6pm

A respected elder, Leonard Little Finger is well known for his Lakota expertise and promotion of Native American rights. He is the Founder/Director of a private Lakota language school, Sacred Hoop School, teaching in total immersion methodology. The school is dedicated …to his grandfather, a survivor of the Wounded Knee Creek Massacre of 1890.

He also operates a Lakota Culture Camp and Tours, Lakota Journey, that offers culture work shops and tours for all ages, including school camps.

He served as a Cultural Resource Specialist at Loneman School in Oglala, for 11 years. Under his leadership, the Lakota Studies program developed into one the most progressive Indian Studies program in Indian country.

Prior to this position, Little Finger was the CEO of the Pine Ridge Indian Health Service Hospital, retiring after 28 years of service for the people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

He founded a multi-year organic gardening student exchange program between Oglala Lakota College and University of Bonn, Germany. He was selected as Teacher of the Year 2000 by the South Dakota Bilingual

Education Association, and served as President of the Red Cloud Indian School Board.

Little Finger is a recognized public speaker. He has been twice a representative and presenter to the United Nations Draft Declaration for the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, Switzerland. He also spoken at Bundestag (German Parliament) in Bonn, Germany; and, at the World Parks Conference in Durbin, South Africa. In addition to appearing in several film documentaries and national radio shows, Little Finger authored the book, Lightning and Thunder Spoke to Me, an account of the repatriation of a hairlock belonging to his great-great grandfather, Sitanka, leader of the Mniconjou Band massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.

He currently resides in Oglala, SD., semi-retired, continuing his work to elevate through speaking and writings of an understanding of the culture, history, spiritual beliefs, language and inherent rights of the Lakota, The People of the Seven Council Fires, Oceti Sakowin Oyate. On May 7, 2011, Leonard was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition, he delivered the commencement address for 500 graduates. He was recognized for the many years of work in promoting the Lakota language and culture to Lakota youth, and for articulating the Lakota Mores to people throughout the world.

Beginning in the first part of 2012, free Lakota language lessons will be offered on the internet at www.lakotacirclevillage.org . This program will provide an understanding of Lakota Ta”Woyukcun, or Lakota Thought.

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