[American Indian NEWS] Standing with Tribal Nations Opposing Coal Exports in the Pacific Northwest | Sierra Club

Not long ago we wrote about the restlessness of the American Indian. What he’s going through, and where he’s been/coming from.

Clearly. He is sick and tired of the BS, and is just simply looking for the truth and to be heard. Based on what I just read and am sharing from my friends at the Sierra Club everything is still in question.

Watch this space closely folks…

“… nine Tribal Nations from the Pacific Northwest as they as they came together in Seattle to sign a declaration urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny a permit for North America’s largest coal export terminal — the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal in the Salish Sea.The Lummi Nation, the Lower Elwha, the Northern Cheyenne, the Quinault, the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation of British Columbia, the Tulalip, the Spokane Tribal Council,the Swinomish Tribal Nations, and the Yakama Nation are united against coal because they are concerned about its effects on their communities, their cultures, and our shared future.

Tribal leaders have repeatedly underscored this coal development threatens treaty-protected rights, resources, and sacred sites. At this press conference and a public gathering that followed, they called on the U.S. government to honor those treaty obligations and reject this coal export terminal.

Tribal leaders have repeatedly underscored this coal development threatens treaty-protected rights, resources, and sacred sites. .. The Lummi Nation has formally called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny all permits associated with the proposed coal terminal in the tribe’s treaty-protected fishing waters. … The Sierra Club is proud and honored to stand in solidarity with these Tribal Nations in the fight against coal exports in the Pacific Northwest. Thousands of activists across the region have spoken out at public hearings, written letters, submitted comments, and rallied for clean energy instead of coal exports. ..”

Standing with Tribal Nations Opposing Coal Exports in the Pacific Northwest | Sierra Club.

— Rhett.

“Your Commanding General at Wounded Knee 2.0..” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

The Honorable John A. Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In today’s edition of the 114th Congress of the United States of America the Republican-controlled House of Representatives cleared the first ‘hurdles’ ,according to Yahoo News!, in approving the Keystone XL pipeline through a majority of Native American Lands in the Midwestern United States.

Today I will make a case on why the indomitable crier of the Congress, John Boehner, should be your Commanding General at the next Wounded Knee.

It would’ve been one thing if this vote, this effort, was really and truly all about creating  ‘jobs’ and stimulating the ‘economy’. But we both know fellow Citizen of Earth that it is anything but.

This is about the white man, the rich white man or the ‘Great White Father’ getting his way. Getting what he wants, which is, more money.

Therefore one could argue then that then candidate for President and junior United States Senator for Illinois ,Barack Obama, was right when he said,

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits.”

However, I am of the opinion that, we must look further, and set ourselves fellow Citizen of Earth on a collision course with human history, our history. A history in which John A. Boehner the now and still newly minted Speaker of the 114th Congress will lead us. Where the Republican-controlled 114th Congress, as a whole, and not a some, will lead us. Wounded Knee 2.0.

The last full-blown uprising of the Native American took place in February of 1973 when a band of Lakota Sioux seized the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota just off the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

It was led by Mr.. Dennis Banks and the now late great  Mr. Russell Means and his American Indian Movement (AIM) from mid February to early May in 1973.

This band of brothers few lead a fully armed, fully functional and completely determined movement against the Government of the United States of America and the then ‘Great White Father’ ,Richard M. Nixon, was loyally opposed.

The Honorable Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of these United States of America…

And his then Commanding General at the time of the Incident at Wounded Knee Mr. William Ruckelshaus led the charge and perfectly good men and women (children too), on both sides of the ledger, got killed in the process.

The Honorable William D. Ruckelshaus former Secretary of the E.P.A., former Director of the F.B.I. under than Presidents Nixon and later Reagan (E.P.A. Secretary)…

The American Indian as a whole, and not a some, at the time, had grown weary with what they saw as a deliberate and ineffectual dialogue between themselves and the Government of the United States of America under then President Nixon’s Administration and for 71 days in early 1973 exercised their free and well-earned right to independently assemble and protest, albeit peacefully.

Called the, “Riflemen of Wounded Knee” this photo has come to symbolize the sentiments then as well as now of the American Indian towards the Federal Government of the United States of America. (Notice the Upside down American Flag?)

And although many have argued the merits by which the American Indian expressed his frustration towards us many good things emerged from out of the Incident at Wounded Knee in 1973. From out of this came a revisiting of treaties and agreements between the Governments of the United States of America and Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

In particular the Indian Reorganization Act or Indian New Deal as it is also know was revisited by the Congress at the time, and the Civil Rights Division for the United States Department of Justice was given a special division, by the Congress as well as the President, for the American Indian to rightly and properly redress grievances that he could not ordinarily handle through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

At this point in the posting you may well be saying, “so case closed then, move on. Even if the Indian of today still has issues he should still be able to address the matter rightly and properly. Right?” If only.

Fast forward to today and the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Keystone XL Pipeline Map…

Together with the Farmers and Ranchers of the Midwest the American Indian has formed an Alliance, The Cowboy and Indian Alliance.

In April of 2014 the Alliance came together in mass for a March on Washington, and it turned into the Reject the Project Movement. They said in one resounding voice, “No!” Do not build this pipeline ‘Great White Father’. Reject the project!

But Congress, the 113th and now the 114th have said, more or less, “screw you and the teepee you came out of!”

Our Illuminati-Build-A-Berg-Trilateral-Commission-Minders matter more than any old tidily idly farms, ranches and native lands. They say, we do. Bottom line. You don’t like it, lump it.

And so it goes….

Promises made, promises broken. It is a vicious, vicious cycle folks. And as activist such as Jane Kleeb, Wheezy Pond and Ranchers like Randy Thompson have emerged as the faces of ‘loyal opposition’ against this pipeline the resolve of this Congress has only gotten worse.

Farmer & Rancher Randy Thompson has opposed the KXL Pipeline from day one…

The Congress of the United States has insisted that this pipeline project go through. It must go through they say like the U.S. Mail, our U.S. Mail, being delivered by U.P.S., if this Republican-controlled United States Congress has its eventual way. We should be so lucky, shouldn’t we folks?

Time and memorial the Farmer. The Rancher. The Native American has said, “Do not build this pipeline.” “Do not build this pipeline. Don’t allow it to be built here. We will be the ones to create jobs and stimulate the economy ‘Great White Fathers’. This will turn out bad for you if you do this. We are tired of you encroaching on our lands, homes, and places of business. We will resist this, we will fight you. Fight this pipeline being put through…”

An anti-KXL Pipeline Protest from 2014.

To his credit though President Obama has joined in, more or less, in peaceful, semi-quiet protest and has vowed to veto the bill should Congress pass it.

President Barack H. Obama, II. 2014 photo…

Lets see if the current ‘Great White Father’ has it within him to hold fast and true to his word? To join with the Cowboys and Indians Alliance and stand in loyal opposition to this firmly entrenched Congress and former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer who has become the defacto mouth piece for Trans-Canada and the pipeline project as a whole,”No!”.

When Schweitzer isn’t riding herd at the Stillwater Mining Co. he is in Washington, D.C. knocking down the doors and windows of every member of Congress he can to get this pipeline measure approved, VETO threat from Mr. Obama be damned. Bottom line.

Former Governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer, Democrat, stands to profit handsomely from the KXL Pipeline. (He owns large amounts of stock in CSX and Burlington Northern Railroad Companies. Companies that will benefit from no-bid-contracts in shipping supplies and equipment to the Midwest when it comes time to build KXL…)

SO, the sixty-four thousand dollar question(s) is, fellow Citizen of Earth, is does this Congress, under Boehner, and this Administration under Obama want another Wounded Knee on their hands? Or Will John A. Boehner be another ‘Wild Bill’ Ruckelshaus getting men, women, and children, innocence’s, killed?

In the mean time I leave you with a quote, from out of the aftermath of the Incident at Wounded Knee.

One in which I think is appropriate to learn from and hear again, see again, even unto today. One in which John Boehner & Co. need to get. Learn from, understand, and comprehend. The patience of the American Indian has been worn thin. Oppose him at your own risk. Underestimate him at your own peril.

“I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.” – Chief Oren Lyons, Oneida in an address to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

–Rhett.