LastRealIndians is collaborating with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to Centralize Funding Efforts to save one our our most precious sacred sites (Pe Sla) in the middle of the Black Hills. Donate online by following Indiegogo link at the lastrealindians.com website. Wopila Tanka Ic'ic'iyapelo! http://www.indiegogo.com/PeSla-LakotaHeartland Or you could send check or money order to: Rosebud Sioux Tribe/Pesla 11 Legion Ave. PO Box 430 Rosebud, South Dakota 57570 Update: 8.28.12 Tuesday The Land Auction which was scheduled for Saturday August 24, 2012 at the Rapid City Ramkota Inn was cancelled at the request of the Reynolds Family (owners). Reasons were not given. The efforts to get funding to purchase this land continued. It has just been announced that tribes have made an offer to secure lands in Pe Sla. The Reynolds estate counter offered and tribal councils are scheduled to have a telephone "conference call" today to decide the next steps to take.

Statement Regarding Richard Marshall’s Motion to Quash a Subpoena in the trial of John Graham: What is the truth? South Dakota justice system seeks lies as truth in Indian country. November 30, 2010 - What becomes of a country when it’s indigenous people are being taught that, in a foreign court of law, lying under oath is a truthful lie and that truthful lie will set you free? Back in the 1970s when Sovereignty was an idea of the red power movement, Indians were just beginning to examine corruption in their tribal governments. Today, Sovereignty means something different. Today we see that Sovereignty banner in every gaming compact negotiation where tribal leaders plead to states for more slot machines, while the racist state bargains for more jurisdiction in Indian Country, keeping in mind the states goal of gaining more Indian lands. In 1973, Richard Marshall was one of those early Sovereignty rights advocates as he traveled with leaders like Pedro Bissonette. In Apr...

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...

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.

By Barbara Soderlin Journal staff | Posted: Saturday, May 15, 2010 Rapid City Journal Charmaine White Face, known as an environmental and Native American activist, organized a protest Friday that was more personal than usual. Her son, Marc Wisecarver, 40, has been incarcerated for more than 15 months. Now, he is being held in Pennington County Jail, awaiting trial Tuesday on charges of depredation of government property. She said he is being held unlawfully and that the charges should not have been filed. The charges stem from an April 29, 2008, incident in which a Bureau of Indian Affairs soil conservationist drove a government pickup truck onto Wisecarver's land near Manderson on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. After an argument, in which Wisecarver told the agent to leave his property, Wisecarver fired a rifle round into the grille of the truck, because he heard the agent rev the engine and was afraid he would be run over, he testified in a January 2009 federal court trial presid...

U.S. Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. SIOUX NATION OF INDIANS, 448 U.S. 371 (1980) 448 U.S. 371 UNITED STATES v. SIOUX NATION OF INDIANS ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS. No. 79-639. Argued March 24, 1980. Decided June 30, 1980. Link to Opinion http://laws.findlaw.com/us/448/371.html