by wespac-admin | Jun 14, 2010 | Friends of Turtle Island
The Unfractured Future Tuesday, June 29 @ 7pm See a short film by Scott Halfmann & Tracy Basile with Indigenous voices reminding us that water is life. Join us in working to ban natural gas drilling and create the world we want. The Unfractured Future 6/29 @ 7 pm,...
by wespac-admin | Dec 10, 2009 | Friends of Turtle Island
December 9, 2009 U.S. Will Settle Indian Lawsuit for $3.4 Billion By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds,...
by wespac-admin | Oct 29, 2009 | Friends of Turtle Island
Join us for a report from WESPAC delegates who recently attended a Lakota treaty conference in South Dakota , as well as lively discussion on the meaning of American Indian resistance and sustainability in the 21st Century. Wednesday, November 11@ 7 pm WESPAC...
by wespac-admin | Dec 14, 2008 | Friends of Turtle Island
The Rights of the Land The Onondaga Nation of central New York proposes a radical new vision of property rights by Robin Kimmerer Published in the November/December 2008 issue of Orion magazine Before first light we board a bus and at last light we return, just as the...
by wespac-admin | Jul 2, 2008 | Friends of Turtle Island
‘I’m not afraid to speak on behalf of the mountain’ by: Rob Capriccioso © Indian Country Today June 27, 2008. All Rights Reserved PIERRE, S.D. – A group of impassioned Indians gathered at South Dakota’s Bear Butte...
by wespac-admin | Jun 11, 2008 | Friends of Turtle Island
Legacy of Canada’s residential schools By Sarah Shenker BBC News Mike Cachagee is not impressed by apologies. Aged four, he was sent from his home to a series of state-run church boarding schools, where he was stripped of his language, religion and...