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Showing posts with label Indigenous Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indigenous Nations. Show all posts

2.22.2017

Standing Rock update: not that anyone should care but me, but I am greatly saddened at the lack of character in all but a few my native sisters.......

Standing Rock update: not that anyone should care but me, but I am greatly saddened at the lack of character in all but a few my native sisters and brothers. Yes, it is no worse than what I see in most populations. My God, it is so understandable. But it is so rare that any is a revolutionary Force. Why am I saddened by this? Because I hoped it would be different. A strength of the culture I believe is a desire to unite with the spirit of the universe. But we humans unite more strongly, more powerfully, with more wisdom, more courage, more grace, more decency when we primarily Unite toward the well-being of the neediest,  human and nonhuman. I see this as a fundamental weakness of native cultures, their focus is too abstract and too removed from Humanity. An additional terrible weakness is a focus on mysticism, not unlike Christianity for example, but both are thereby crippling of their adherents because they bleed energy away from the real Battle Ground which is the spirit within human individuals and in common. If there's a constructive reason for me to share this it is in the off chance that a sister or brother, particularly native, cares to take it to heart and to try and Lead to a more hopeful way of being.

9.23.2013

vid, link: Papua New Guinea’s remote Western Province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and their environment....

Petersham, Australia:

Papua New Guinea’s remote Western Province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and their environment.
BHP has dumped billions of tonnes of tailings from their Ok Tedi copper mine into the Ok Tedi and Fly River systems since 1987.
In 2001, landowners enlisted the support of Australian lawyers, Slater and Gordon to pressure the mine to stick to an earlier commitment to clean up the mine waste from the river. However the legal process took a dramatic turn when BHP decided to ‘exit’ the mine....See More

8.15.2013

***** see link: "You, dear Start Loving, you are the quintessential "Indigen" and your sacrifice slowly moves into the collective meme so that maybe more will come to see ourselves as Indigenous not to one region or another or to any particular virgin native ground but to the entire Earth itself."

 Have I ever received a more important complement?  From

Dave Warren 

You, dear Start Loving, you are the quintessential "Indigen" and your sacrifice slowly moves into the collective meme so that maybe more will come to see ourselves as Indigenous not to one region or another or to any particular virgin native ground but to the entire Earth itself.

....

May I live up to what Dave says.  It is the entirety of what I want, what I will, what I owe you all.

Makes me cry.

Nothing less from me will do.  Nothing less from me is acceptable.

Nor, from you, now.

Loving.  Sakihiwew. 

ps:  If the Creator gave me the option to be reborn (after my work here is done), and gave me a choice, for PERSONAL reasons - I'd choose America - 100 years before Columbus landed.  Well, ok, I'd choose to be with Jesus, 0 C.E. or so, but America, 100 years before Columbus would be my 2nd choice.

pps:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/dave-warren/ode-to-the-tar-sands-blockaders/10151142496983859

8.12.2013

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew