Crazy Horse Advocate Summer 2010 Newsletter is Available

The Crazy Horse Advocate newsletter, Summer 2010 issue, is now available. This newsletter is currently not available online. If anyone wishes to recieve a print copy, please send self addressed stamped envelope to:

Lakota Student Alliance
PO Box 349
Porcupine SD 57772

The Crazy Horse Advocate is a newsletter maintained by sons of Nebraska AIM coordinator Bob Yellow Bird and members of the Lakota Student Alliance.

A publication on the Oglala Lakota Nation since 1972 following the Fort Robinson Nebraska Occupation by the Nebraska Chapter of the American Indian Movement. Crazy Horse Advocate was founded by Bob Yellow Bird and William Cross.

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Remembering Trailman Gray Buffalo (Richard Quinn)

In memory of Rick Trailman Gray Buffalo Today, October 26, 2010, our people will be burying a warrior of the 20 th and 21 st century, in the sacred Black Hills. That warrior is Rick Trailman Gray Buffalo. 48,273,000 acres ago we were a unified nation of peoples. The Ft Laramie Treaty of 1851 & 68 declared those 48 million acres to be Great Sioux Reservation territory. However, in the past several decades we have had to occupy those lands to remind the empire that we will continue to sacrifice ourselves so that our future generations will remember they are united as Lakota. Trailman was among those who offered to sacrifice to return to those 48 million acres. The Lakota Student Alliance would like to respectfully remember Rick “Trailman” Gray Buffalo. Trailman was given the name at Wounded Knee in 1973. On March 22, 1999, there was no strategic plan to occupy Laframbois Island in Pierre. There was no strategic meeting announced among our people. Tha...

The Invasion of America. An interactive map produced by author Claudio Saunt - Aeon. Read: " The US must not forget its history of dispossession ." By Claudio Saunt, Aeon.

LSA History: Mt. Rushmore Gathering 1996 & LSA Statement

Students Gather at Mt. Rushmore Effort Made to explain land struggle by Karen Testerman Indian Country Today. Feb. 29, 1996. B-1. He Sapa: Not For Sale 2.29.96 BLACK HILLS, SD - Wanting to educate visitors on the struggles of the Lakota people, Lakota students recently gathered at Mount Rushmore. The Lakota Student Alliance organized a public assembly at Mount Rushmore to coincide with an MTV filming of a performance by rock band The Presidents of the United States of America, which aired nationally President's Day. The students expressed an alternative viewpoint of the four presidents carved in the mountain and the reasons why the Sioux Nation continues to refuse monetary compensation from the United States government. "We still believe the Black Hills are the heart of our nation," students said. "We must negotiate the unconditional return of our land." In 1980, the United States tried to right a wrong by awarding the Sioux Nation monies for the Black Hills, ...

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