CRAZY HORSE ADVOCATE summer 2010 Paha Sapa: To Accept is to Deny "Thieves Road Leads to Black Hills Settlement Discussions" Amongst tribal leaders and members of the Great Sioux Nation comes a formulated opinion that tribes need to cash in on the Black Hills Claim of more than one (1) billion dollars. Since the United States of America has now seated a minority as President, many tribal leaders now feel that his administration would not be opposed to opening up the discussions to settle the long standing opposition of the Black Hills monetary awards. Barack Obama claims to be a strong believer of tribal sovereignty and believes that tribes are better suited in deciding the outcome of the settlement monies for themselves. Of course, it would be government to IRA government deciding the best options for traditional Lakotas. Those tribal members running for tribal government positions as well as newspaper editors are quick to influence our poverty stricken tribal communiti...

Hello Everyone, Just returned from a meeting in Switzerland of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War where I was requested to do a presentation. At the meeting, we learned about the connection between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization. Our concern, from the Indigenous people present, was that our recommendation to the UN more than a year ago, requesting the WHO to come to our Regions to do studies was being ignored. We learned that any information that WHO might gather was censored by the IAEA so our request for the information would be ineffective. We are encouraging an international campaign to open up all information collected by WHO. Others who have tried to do this in the past, we were told, "disappeared." The doctors telling us this were very upset as they knew those that "disappeared." My request to the WHO for these studies was to show that if Indigenous people were impacted by nuclear contamina...

"You Can Only Kick So Long..." American Indian Movement leadership in Nebraska 1972-1979 by W. Dale Mason Reprinted with Permission-Originally Printed in Journal of the West 1984 Following the "re-occupation" of Alcatraz Island by Federal authorities in late 1971 after a two-year "occupation" by Indians living near San Francisco, the emerging nationwide Indian movement entered a new phase. Between the mid-1960s and 1971 there had been numerous "fish-ins" and seizures of Federal property by young Indian activists. Many of these acts of direct confrontation occurred without a great deal of planning. They often lacked a broad base of support among the Indian people living in the areas where they took place. Alcatraz itself was not of major concern to many indigenous California Indians. The impetus for the occupation of the Island had come from Indian college students living in the Bay Area led by Richard Oaks, a 27 year-old Mohawk from the St.Regis...