Oceti Sakowin Oyate Movement

06/01/2022

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04/27/2022

04/24/2022

04/22/2022

04/18/2022

Accountability

If you ever wonder to the Department of Interiors website, one of the first things you'll read is a quote from Secretary Deb Haaland.
She States “We must ensure that Tribes have a seat at the table for every decision that impacts them and their communities. From clean energy projects and economic development to addressing past injustices against Tribal communities, the Biden-Harris administration is committed to fulfilling federal trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Nations and working for Indian Country.”
Now let's break this down because once again the hypocrisy is real with this statement of promised action from the US government. Firstly, A seat at the table for every decision is something every single treaty ensures. The only thing you as one of two self governing nations involved in said treaties has to do is hold up your end of the 300+ you've signed. You use us for your energy initiatives and economic development projects but here we are, in the highest poverty, highest unemployment, we can't get clean water and our food is poison. Crisis after crisis, year after year for hundreds and you're going to "address past injustices"? how about address a genocide of injustices that happen today and haven't stopped since 1492.
You may be committed to federal trust responsibilities because that means you get to treat us like irresponsible children who don't know how to govern ourselves but you're definitely not committed to treaties or "federal Trust" wouldn't be in our vocabulary when speaking about our sovereignty which means a self governing seat at the international level.
The united states' has always been good at finding a way to make assimilation policy sound pleasant, they just have a indigenous person to say it for them now. I'm honestly surprised more of us don't see this, but with the native and non native media praising this illusion of unity and healing between tribes and the US government, it's not surprising. We can't afford to hide the truth anymore. That's why here at Western Hemisphere Indigenous Network our goal is full accountability across the table on all aspects of indigenous life, land and governance.

Please join our efforts today to help us begin the restoration of our voice and the truth to the western hemisphere:
https://gofund.me/83ee6ba8

04/16/2022

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This year, as a 501c3, we have seen many profound victories and achievements! Our talented and devoted board informed me recently that for this year we distributed 27,630$ in donations and assisted over 1000 of our children, our wakanyeja, our precious seeds. These wakanyeja came from five different tribes across the great plains region. We keep moving forward, we walk a healing path, we are the prayers of our ancestors answered and together we create beautiful and profound changes. I want to send out a big pilamaya to all who have joined us in this healing path! Here's to another year of Buffalo Youth Nation Project and the healing of our Nations 🙏🙏❤️❤️

04/12/2022

04/09/2022

Help WHIN reach their goal and restore representation to the western hemisphere!
https://gofund.me/83ee6ba8

04/08/2022

Add WestHemIndigenousNetwork

Hello Turtle Isalanders and allies, as you know Indigenous representati… Jonathon Switters needs your support for WESTERN HEMISPHERE INDIGENOUS MEDIA MOVEMENT

04/01/2022

APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED POPE.
We haven't seen real action to help our people in the history of this genocide. 500+ years. While you make billions off of Bibles and evangelism. Russell Means said it best, 'We don't have A problem with Christianity, it's the MISUSE of it...'

Gofundme Link:
https://gofund.me/83ee6ba8

03/28/2022

"What a performative act of protest. EVERY SINGLE day since 1890's our treaty has been broke on every square mile of our territory. EVERY business in Rapid City is guilty of profiting off of our genocide. So why just the Grand Gateway? Why not all of them and why not march on Noems doorstep and stay their until the treaties are FULLY restored? Oh I know why... That would mean actually making change. Grand Gateway will be gone, sure... But until this Same effort is made for REAL core Sovereignty issues... I see nothing but a great performance. I SEE ALL THOSE FEDERAL TRIBAL COUNCIL CHIEFS BUT NOT ONE REAL LEADER!" - J. Switters (Mniconjou-Oglala Lakota)

Citing the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, five Tribal leaders of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Nations) led a march on Saturday in Rapid City…

03/26/2022

Help us expand our media outreach! Education is the key to our SOVEREIGNTY. In this day and age we must step up and compete with these other media outlets misrepresenting us. WE deserve a voice in the western hemisphere! Please think about joining us!
https://gofund.me/83ee6ba8

03/22/2022

03/01/2022

We are tired of hearing this whenever we call out the US/world's hypocrisy and genocide complicity.

02/28/2022

"We are people who live in the belly of the monster. The monster being the U.S.A. Every country in the Western Hemisphere follows the lead of the monster. I come not to turn the other cheek. We have turned it now for almost five hundred years, and we realize that here in Geneva, this is our first" small step into the international community…The President of the U.S.—to show you what a racist he is—[talks] about human rights while my people are suffering genocide. Not only in the U.S. but in the entire Hemisphere—planned genocide by governments. We have brought documents to Geneva that support this charge." Russell Means

02/26/2022

The US and the world is proclaiming the Ukraine invasion is a flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response from the international community. Does this sound familiar to anyone? If not, I'll fill you in. Indigenous communities across north America have been saying these same words for over a hundred years about the flagrant violations of treaties, (which are also Federal and international law) all to no avail. So why when it's another country, action is of utmost importance but when it's America and the indigenous people suffering a genocide, we get complete silence? It's called HYPOCRISY at its finest and the whole world is compliant or complicit with this silent genocide. ..
Biden speech:
"We saw a flagrant violation of international law in attempting to unilaterally create two new so-called republics on sovereign Ukrainian territory."
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"And at the very moment that the United Nations Security Council was meeting to stand up for Ukraine's sovereignty to stave off invasion, Putin declared his war."
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"And I want to be clear, in the contest between democracy and autocracy, between sovereignty and subjugation, make no mistake: Freedom will prevail."
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02/26/2022

It's time for accountability. If you consider yourself an ally, it's time to stop and think before you vote. Who is this vote effecting? Who is dying from the policies passed by these "leaders". You will find soon enough that it's not just natives they are killing it's their own people. Just not on the genocide level like we've been suffering through for hundreds of years. WE are still here and we are ready to RISE and RESTORE order to the western hemisphere.

02/26/2022

In sum, for the entire present-day United States from 1492 to the present, the total
number of Indigenous deaths includes the 12 million estimated by RussellThornton (1987); the additional approximately 790,000 deaths that occurred in Hawaii, Alaska, in Puerto Rico; and about
200,000 excess deaths since 1900. Thus, the Indigenous Holocaust in this country appears
to have taken around 13 million lives. Signally, this horrific number of deaths was only a
very small portion of the mind-numbing Holocaust throughout the Western Hemisphere.
When Thornton’s estimated hemispheric population decline of 70 million is multiplied by
2.5, the total number of Indigenous deaths throughout the Western Hemisphere between
1492 and 1900 appears to be about 175 million. And the number of Indigenous people
who have died in the hemisphere because of war, repression, racism, and harsh conditions
of life since 1900 surely runs into the millions.

02/16/2022

We hear about Boarding Schools that our great grandparents, grandparents, parents and even some of us had to endure. "Kill the Indian, Save the man" policy for the whole world to see, at it's peak. What we don't hear about as often and need to put in the spotlight are the boarding schools equivalent today, The Foster Care system. We (natives) are up to four times more likely to have our children taken and placed into foster care, representing more than 35% of all those in the system. For example, According to an OKDHS report released in 2020, 7,774 children were in Oklahoma foster care, and 322 were in tribal custody. Yet, of the 7,452 in state custody, 2,567 were native. This is just one state and one example, this is happening in every state with native populations and is no doubt the long lasting "kill the Indian, save the man" policy that has haunted our people for hundreds of years. Our children hold the future of our values and our language, we must protect them. It is time to bring this into the light and show the world the disgusting policies we still live under and the genocide we still face in 2022.

02/09/2022

So far since 1776 not one democrat or republican has shown any interest in TRUE indigenous rights. All talk and no action.

01/24/2022

Time to step up. ALL of us! Not just some. ALL!

01/18/2022

STATE OF EMERGENCY!
We need leadership now more than we ever have! WE NEED ALL TRADITIONAL COUNCILS TO STAND UP IMMEDIATELY!
WE ARE IN A GENOCIDE IN 2022.
SHARE THIS WITH ALL MEMBERS OF ANY COUNCIL!

01/03/2022

WE NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THE POLITICIANS MAKING MONEY OFF OF OUR GENOCIDE, WILL HELP US GET OUT OF THE GENOCIDE!

12/15/2021

Landback means We will have our land given back to us, per federal and international treaty rights.

12/12/2021

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